Repressed Personality and Sexual Subtleties in Robert Louis Stevenson D

Repressed Personality and versed Subtleties in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Tragedies of repressionIn the reference book Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia Stevenson is tell for saying that fiction should render the truths that make life significant (760). We jar against this most closely in his Jekyll/Hyde experiment when Jekyll explains why he invented his notorious potion. Jekyll says I concealed my pleasures and when I reached years of reflection...I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life (Stevenson, 42). Because of this feeling of being one favorable function in the publics eye, well respected and controlled, and another on his own, Hyde invents an outlet. This outlet becomes, at least symbolically, a representation of male hysteria, a psychological bother stereotypically associated with women. Jekyll says my two natures had memory in common (48). Thus, Hyde is free to express his founding and immoral self without conscience while Jekyll is voyeuristi cally allowed to watch without mourning since the actions are not his own, but a different entities altogether. Jekyll is described weeping like a woman behind closed doors because Hyde has become the dominant personality (Showalter, 114).Stevensons narrative reflects some of the effects of socialization and their influence on the repression of certain forms of sexuality, specifically homosexuality, which we will explore a little later. Jekyll begins light as Hyde, suggesting that when his social controls are weakest, Hyde is free to come out. The story dramatizes social norms, the search to deviate from them, and rid oneself of responsibility for ones actions that go against these norms. As Jekyll gets apply to becoming Hyde, the socialized and repressed Je... ...nd abnormal for their feelings. This is quite different than go about explicitly ones repressed feelings or sexualilty, which the public often reacts violently against. kit and caboodle Cited Showalter, Elaine .Dr. Jekylls Closet. Sexual Anarchy New York Penguin Books,1990. 105-126.Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York capital of Delaware Publishing, Inc., 1991.Waters, Chris. Robert Louis Stevenson. Victorian Britain An Encyclopedia. Sally Mitchell and Michael J. Herr. New York Garland Publishing, Inc, 1988. 760-761.Swade. Lesbian Tribal cantillate History page. http//www.swade.net/swadepages/les_hist.htm Accessed 4/20/99. Ennis, Jane. VICTORIA Digest - 27 Mar 1998 to 28 Mar 1998 . Accessed 4/20/99. http//www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/englit-victorian/1998-04/0003.html