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‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also’ (JH C6)
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‘If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also’ (JH C6)
Compare the ways The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde present the tragic sin, suffering and punishment of the protagonists.
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the id and the ego
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victorian period was known as a time of staunchly rooted Christian morality. Freud’s theory says this overlay of intellect and morality (the superego) covers up and suppresses the primitive id that we also carry through life.
most of the time we are able keep it in check, but its always there, so we try to hide it. Jekyll tries to hide it by displacing the evil into his alter ego, Hyde, J talks about hyde in the third person. DG takes the route of putting his id in the attic, in the form of the painting.
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narrative perspective
JH is told from the perspective of Utterson. He is the moral hero, he is 'austere in his habits' and is 'a lover of the sane and customary sides of life'. He is the antithesis of Jekyll, who is driven by his id. Ambivalent perception of corruption.
by contrast DG is told from many narrative perspectives. There is no parallel figure to DG. Wilde has a more cynical view of society. Even basil, who represents Dorian's 'good angel' is also an aesthete and is not particularly religious: 'pray, Dorian, pray...What is it that one was taught to say in their boyhood?' he can't remember the prayers.
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They both know that they sin, and they both suffer because of that, and yet they are both tragic heroes because there was so much potential for good:
J as a doctor has the capacity to be a healer and curer, or a poisoner and sinner.
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Dr Faustus: both texts use the religious principle of free will to show that both of the protagonists could have chosen differently. (TRAGIC)
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