It is the darker side that gives gleam to your personality. Robert Louis Stevenson had one major ambition, and that was to split these two characters apart as much as possible. Starting with Dr. Jekyll, who is this well respected, careful, admirable professional from an upper class family to this evil character Edward Hyde who is a deformed cruel, wicked murderer. When it came to comprehending the book I thought to myself that Mr. Hyde is the horrible, disgraceful being but then I realized that Mr. Hyde isn’t at all truly evil. In my opinion I feel that Dr. Jekyll is in fact the real corruption of all this.
Often, he wears elegant clothing. Dr. Henry Jekyll Respected and well-known, Dr. Henry Jekyll is a large, handsome, well-built man fifty years of age. Kind and charitable, Dr. Jekyll has a strong contrast in good and evil, and is often terrified of his evil, less benevolent side. Edward Hyde Disliked by everyone he makes contact with, Edward Hyde is a very small, and very evil, monstrously bold man. There is something inhuman about Mr. Hyde.
Although his actions are very insane, they can be seen as rational to reader considering hedonism. Devotion to pleasure, hedonism, makes Dorian be deceitful about his true self by deflecting the attention of the public from the mad man to the beautiful and intelligent gentlemen. Dorian is, young, sensitive, and emotional, meaning that he is susceptible to manipulation. Lord Henry takes advantage of that opportunity and gives Dorian the yellow book; this book opens up the world of hedonism and aestheticism which eventually turns his young life into an eternal oblivion of misery. Dorian develops a fear of aging so he tries to live his life as if it was his last day on earth.
This suggests that masculinity is achieved not by those who thrive in modernity but by those who have inherent nobility and are able to connect to and revert back to their primitive warrior roots. In contrast to Curtis and Ignosi, who represent Haggard’s idea of masculinity, there is Captain Good, who represents the modern man. Good is portrayed as “broad, of medium height, dark, stout and so very clean shaved, and he always wore an eye-glass in his right eye” (13). Good’s medium height places him below Curtis and Ignosi on the “totem of manliness”. In contrast to Curtis’s “big blonde beard,” Good is clean-shaven.
As these show, Odysseus lacks of many heroic attributes even after his burdensome journey. However, it is an inevitable fact that he does become wiser with a knowledge and experience. For instance, Odysseus, who is still the most powerful man in Ithaca, disguises himself as a beggar, the most debased position in the social hierarch, and receives manifold humiliating affronts. This example portrays how Odysseus has become extremely modest and thoughtful juxtaposed with him proudly yelling out his name to Polyphemus. However, even after the slaughter of the suitors, Odysseus might have caused another conflicts if Athene, the god of the war who loves Odysseus the most, didn't stop it.
Kiairra Dixon Dr.Simmons E1305.01 1/15/14 Educational Quote “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” said by Dr. David M. Burns. This quote is highly motivational because it tells you that you are not perfect, but you don’t have to be to be successful. Perfectionism is defined by Wikipedia as, “is a personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high performance standards, accompanied by overly critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations.” Dr.Burns states, “Fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” This means when you try to be perfect, you fear never being enough, so you continue to strive to become something you are not, learning nothing along the way.
In pursuing his scientific experiments and validating his work, Jekyll claims, "man is not truly one, but truly two." Thus, in Jekyll's view, every soul contains elements of both good and evil, but one is always dominant. In Jekyll's case, his good side is dominant, but he knows there is evil inside of him. However, as a respectable member of society and an honorable Victorian gentleman, Jekyll cannot fulfill his evil desires. Thus, he works to develop a way to separate the two parts of his soul and free his evil characteristics.
Jekyll implies this when he says that, ‘man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens,’ this is saying that good, bad and many other qualities make up the whole of a man. Also the Victorians had this idea that if you were deformed physically then your deformity represented degradation. The idea was that God had given you this deformity to punish you for something bad you had done. Jekyll’s experiments can only prove that human beings consist of two ingredients, one part good, and one part evil. Jekyll’s experiment was an attempt to separate the two ingredients.
Through the minds of Palahniuk and Stevenson a common ground is reached in the two books Fight Club and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; both the narrator and Dr. Jekyll create their own misfortune in trying to fix the problems of the world, or better yet what they perceive the problems to be. In a sense the doppelganger of Dr. Jekyll and The Narrator create a misery that is eerie. These characters could be considered Byronic heroes; they start off admirable individuals but by the end of their journey we pity them. Another observation than can be made is through the birth of their alter egos Dr. Jekyll is in essence attempting to play God, and Tyler Durden (The Narrator’s doppelganger) believes he is God. The consequences of their decisions lead them to, ceaseless misery,
But in all reality it is Gene who resents Finny and his resentment increases when Finny does not attain a reciprocal envy. When Gene's acts resentment drives him to enacts malicious thoughts and behaviors, he suddenly realizes that his real enemy lies not with Finny, but within himself, Finny's lack of comprehension with reality destroys him, and war is an internal conflict that beings spend their lives fighting against(This view is also shared by Bryant Hallman). Gene is very intelligent who ultimately adores and is jealous of Finny. He increasingly loses character and thinks to disperse it with his friend. Gene copes with his jealousy by convincing himself that he and Finny were "even after all, even in enmity.