Jekyll & Hyde. part three

The Jekyll and Hyde story can be interpreted as a cautionary tale about integration or dis-integration of the human psyche.. Without one the other dies. In this story the protagonists fight each other for supremacy. An internal (and eternal) struggle in all our psyches. As simple as the dilemma “do we follow our head or [...]

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Jekyll & Hyde. part two

The Jekyll & Hyde story concerns itself more with the inner personal conflict, the dark, individualised secret that exiles Jekyll from civilised society and acceptable behaviour. It is, primarily, an inner moral dilemma, sparked, it most be noted, by a self created potion (an interesting pre-cursor to the development of the werewolf/scientist themes in 1950’s [...]

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Jekyll and Hyde. part one

Very obvious parallels can be drawn between the mythology of the werewolf and the Jekyll & Hyde story, indeed, it can be interpreted as a modern, post-enlightenment version of werewolfism concerned, mainly, with the subjective, inner life and conflict between different aspects of psyche. The story can be read as the conflict between the primitive [...]

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