Jekyll & Hyde: Victims of MPD
Jekyll: "To this rule...we had agreed to drop." (Stevenson 15).
In the excerpt about Hyde, Stevenson uses violent diction when he describes him. He uses verbs like "stamping," "brandishing," "broke out," "clubbed" "trampling" and "hailing." The words that Stevenson chooses reveals the violent nature of Mr. Hyde. The maid and the gentleman react with fear to his actions. The gentleman "took a step back" and "at the horror of theses sights and sounds, the maid fainted." Hyde is characterized as a violent man who is to be feared. Stevenson further characterizes him as a monster. He refers to nature to portray Hyde as a monster. Hyde clubbed the gentleman "to the earth", he had "ape-like fury", and he hailed "down a storm." Hyde is associate with anger, impatience, violence, and barbarism.
In the excerpt about Dr. Jekyll, Utterson characterizes him through the description of his appearance, and his dialogue with Mr. Utterson. Jekyll is described with positive attributes. He was a "well-made, smooth-faced man" with "every mark of capacity and kindness." He had a "large handsome face." Dr. Jekyll is a stark contrast to Mr. Hyde in that he represents goodness. In the conversation between Mr. Utterson and Dr. Jekyll, it is evident that Mr. Utterson cares for his well-being as a friend. He reacts to Dr. Jekyll with concern as opposed to how the gentleman and the maiden reacted to Hyde with fear.
This poem highlights the inner thoughts of Jekyll and Hyde when he tramples a young girl in the text. Though Hyde is the one in control, I feel that Jekyll would still have some consciousness in the mind. The purpose of the poem is to express the contrasting personality traits of the two characters and show their qualities, like yin and yang, or good vs evil. The last line of the poem I used as a comparison for the two. The intention of this line is to show that the blame for the murder lies on both of the characters.
Jekyll
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Hyde
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What a sweet young girl
I suppose she must be eight or nine
A beautiful woman she will grow up to be
I wonder where she is running off to
oomph she bumped into me, a clumsy mistake I'm sure
Let me help her up
Why is there blood everywhere
She is dead and I killed her
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Look at that insolent child
Her youth makes her naive
So much pain she will endure
She's coming right at me, little does she know
HOW DARE SHE RUN INTO ME
She must pay for this
My only regret is that I couldn't cause her more suffering
She is dead and I killed her
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Love the poem and your explaination; be sure to use specific literary terms and devices in your "how" before moving on to your "so what" in your comparison (you'll need to do this in Paper 1 & 2 and in your FOA).
ReplyDeleteI talked about a lot of the same things that you did in my first part of the blog. I really liked the moment you picked in J & H to write your poem about. I think your description of what the two voices meant to each other was very interesting as well.
ReplyDeleteYour poem is really interesting because it shows how two opposing characters would view a young girl. It does a good job of showing their personalities in a clever way.
ReplyDeleteI like how your poem was of Jekyll and Hyde both perceiving the same situation happening to both of them at the same time, but in different ways. I like how you chose to do this of the scene where Hyde tramples the young girl, because in the book, the reader does not get that action of Hyde from the perspective of Jekyll.
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