Essay: The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde – connection between the dark and light

Dr. Jekyll vs. Mr. Utterson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a wonderful science fiction story that was published in 1886. It was written by a Scottish novelist named Rober Louis Stevenson. That author uses technological ideas to create a plot with good and real characters. Two main characters that play a major part in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson. They are extremely good friends who live in central London during the late 19th-century.
The connection between the dark and light is repeated multiple times throughout the story we can assume that it is used for many other novels as well. It has a certain importance in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. There are characters in the story which the reader can directly notice the Dark and Light genre. Hyde is repeatedly characterized in dark ways during his first show in the story. In Enfield’s recounting of the night the girl was trampled, he was possessing a “black, sneering coolness” and for the contrast, the medic is told on the previous page as being of “no particular colour”. In addition, when the doctor looks at Hyde he is described as turning “sick and white”. Jekyll’s change in mood after the murder of Carew is also described in these subjects; his face described as seeming to be “open and brighten”. Following the meeting between Dr. Lanyon and Mr. Hyde, as is revaled in Lanyons’s letter later in the novel. Jekyll sends Utterson a message and this chapter is repeated with images of dark and light. The novel of the message is made out to be a “darkly mysterious” and the portion which is shared with the reader and shows the Jekyll is also thinking in these terms; he wants of Utterson that he be allowed to go to his “own dark way” and suggest that by ordering to his wish for isolation, Utterson would “lighten his destiny”.There are many other examples through the test and Hyde is always with the darkness. Characters help of Hyde’s temper include this dichotomy; Utterson describes him as possessing “black secrets” and again directly compares him to Jekyll, whose worst secrets, according to Utterson are like “sunshine”. This comparison extends even to the description of the setting and place of the story. Stevenson describes a “haggard shaft of daylight” which would see over in between the turning wreaths. And the streetlamps lighting up the scene in a “regular pattern of light and shadow”. The close relationship between dark and light is a repeating factor throughout the story. The concept of “dark” was talked about without a comparison with “light” as well. Furthermore the position between light and dark is also addressed several times in the novel. The people who are looking at Hyde, or thinking about him, are often said to be white or pale. The doctor in Enfields tale is one example of this, as Jekyll’s reaction to Utterson’s mention of Hyde’s name during their conversation about his will. “The large very handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips” Lanyon is described as having the “grown pale” after seeing Hyde transform into Jekyll. If dark and light are accepted for good and bad, the effect here is that characters goodness is intensified upon seeing Hyde, in much of the same way that a light patch appears lighter when next to something dark. The interlock of these two concepts serves to make an overall point about the overuse of duality of Jekyll and Hyde themselves. Jekyll’s full side to the case is the dark side of man and the light side while being disagreed by definition, are never lashed together by needs. This is also the case for dark and light themselves; where there is no light, there is dark, so despite their opposition there are two sides of the same coin.
Another duo to which that analogy is applicable is that of public and private. Especially in Victorian society, it is known for its pure distinction between lower and upper classes. Public and private faces often had to be very different. The first example in the text of someone wanting their concerns about ownership is Utterson, who is said to drink gin to verify the taste of vintage. He said it’s on the same page to enjoy the theatre but not to have gone to a show in twenty year. The conflict between Jekll’s private and public lives plays out rather more seriously than Utterson’s. The details show that these certain parts are presented even in the unlikeliest candidates and provides a through the line like men together. Naturally gulf between Kelly’s public and private selves is the main thrust of the novel and much of the material illustrating this point surrounds him. One of the ways Stevenson announces this is through the mention of windows. A window can be considered a gateway through which one can view the private forma public place and vice versa. Hyde’s house is described at the beginning of the novel as “showing no window” emphasizing the inability of the characters and reader to view what goes on in the house. Furthermore the block at the end of Jekyll’s garden is said to be a “dingy windowless structure” Utterson and Enfield finding Jekyll at the window also helps this effect on their ability to see him to nearly lead him.
In the end, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a repeat with many different aspects. These are only three examples but in many ways they are intertwined and self-reinforced in such a way that they lend an extreme depth to the text, both are very interesting and excellent readings. The showing of so many oppositions gives the novel a good sense of interpretation. Since most of them are so often mixed and matched and it was also underlined by the overarching theme.