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The theme of the double, Frankenstein and the monster, English novel,…

- - - - split personality
        
        gentleness
        
        kindness
        
        moody
        
        selfish
        
        alcohol
    - - divided self
        
        sanity
        
        insaity
        
        horror
        
        fear
  - - - had a pleasant home
        
        was married to a pleasant wife
        
        loved animals
        
        he begins to change
        
        under the influence of alcohol
        
        one night after a serious bout of heavy drinking, the man seizes the cat and cut out one of the eyes.
        
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- - - - Walton
        
        North Pole
      - Victor Frankenstein
        
        he wants to create life
  - - - ugly monster
        
        Victor rejected his creation
        
        the monster became a murderer
        
        They met again. The monster asked him for a companion. Victor realized the horror he was creating again and he destroyed it.
        
        The monster became enraged and started killing again.
        
        Victor died and the monster killed himself
- - - - double personality
        
        Mr Hyde
        
        Evil
        
        Victorian upper class’ unacceptable desires, primitive instincts and shameful actions
        
        Dr Jekyll
        
        Good
        
        Victorian upper class’ façade of superficial respectability and moral integrity.
      - double physical appearance
        
        Dr Jekyll
        
        handsome and well- proportioned
        
        Mr Hyde
        
        revolting and deformed
      - inflence from his family's Calvinism
    - - Dr Jekyll is a brilliant scientist who decides to start some experiments
        
        By mixing special drugs, he creates a potion which is able to separate the two natures of man
        
        He gives birth to his evil side,
        Mr Hyde
        
        eternal struggle between good and evil
        
        Hyde achieves domination over
        Dr Jekyll
        
        Dr Jekyll suicides himself in order to eliminate Hyde and save himself
        
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        "Hyde" means "to hide": symbol of respressed phychological drives
        
        Mr Hyde represents Dr Jekyll's forbidden desires and secret and dark pleasures
        
        life of crime and depravity
        
        Jekyll is a kind of "Victorian Faust" and his awareness is a pact with an interior evil
    - - hypocrisy of Victorian society
        
        West End
        
        Respectable and wealthy
        
        East End
        
        extremely poor
      - Duality of Dr Jekyll's house
        
        two façades
        
        Dr Jekyll enters through the front
        
        Good
        
        the public, the mental and the spiritual
        
        Mtr Hyde enters through the back
        
        Evil
        
        the private and the physical
        
        Duality in the symbols
        
        doors
        
        passageways between worlds
        
        locked door
        
        Dr Jekyll's attempt to control one's reality
        
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- - - - Dorian
        
        symbol of hypocrisy
      - His picture
        
        symbol of bad conscience and immorality
        
        represents the dark side of his personality,
        
        is a mirror and also his soul
  - - - Dorian arrives and he is fascinated as Henry explains his belief that every person should live its better life.
        
        Henry also says that the beauty and youth are fleeting so Dorian declares that he would give his soul if he could remain young while the portrait were growing old
        
        While he lives his immoral life, all the signs of his wickedness appears on the painting which is kept hidden in a room
        
        When he sees that the picture becomes horrible and transfigured, he talks with Basil , who tells Dorian that the portrait is a reflections of his soul and that he should repent and pray for forgiveness
        
        So Dorian murders the painter and he decides to destroy the portrait and stab it with a knife but he can't avoid the punishment for his behaviour, that is, the death, so he kills himself.
      - Henry thinks that the painting, a portrait of the beautiful young man Dorian Gray, should be displayed, but Basil disagrees because he is worried that people can understand his obsession with his muse.