Concetti Chiave
- Robert Louis Stevenson explores the moral dichotomy between good and evil in Victorian society through his novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
- The protagonist embodies duality, with Dr. Jekyll as the respectable individual and Mr. Hyde as the embodiment of crime and irrationality.
- The suicide of Dr. Jekyll symbolizes the need to suppress one's darker nature to exist in a civilized society.
- Jekyll and Hyde represent the duplicity of Victorian society, showing the conflict between public respectability and hidden vices.
- The setting of foggy Victorian London and the shifting narrative perspectives enhance the themes of horror and confusion.
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Robert Louis Stevenson e la società vittoriana
The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who was born in 1850 and died in 1894, lived all his life during the Reign of Queen Victoria and witnessed the mood of chaning of the last decade of the 19th century. As a consequence he depicted the new shape of the society into his works where he expressed, above of all, the moral dichotomy between good and devil. This is a fundamental theme in his masterpiece ‘’the strange case of dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde’’ where the hypocrisy is embodied by the double.
Il simbolismo in Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde
The protagonist is in fact a man divided into two different characters, Jekyll, a respectable and rational doctor, and Hyde, an evil genius devoted to crime and irrationality. Jekyll, who has previously managed to create a potion that brings Hyde to life, is overcome by his evil part and, as a final conclusion, he has to kill himself in order to assassinate Hyde. The final suicide has a symbolic meaning: for Stevenson a man must kill one part of his nature to live in a civilized society.
La società vittoriana e la sua duplicità
The two main characters are also a symbol of the duplicity in Victorian society: Jekyll represents the public face of the individual but at night in the bad areas of London he is Hyde who represents the dark side that is present in everyone. It is also important to underline that even the narrator and the set communicate something important: the set ,the Victorian London full of fog and dark corners, and the multiple prospective of narration mislead the narrator who is lost in horror.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è il tema principale espresso da Robert Louis Stevenson nelle sue opere?
- Qual è il significato simbolico del suicidio finale in "Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde"?
- Come viene rappresentata la duplicità della società vittoriana nel romanzo?
Stevenson esprime la dicotomia morale tra bene e male, un tema fondamentale nel suo capolavoro "Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde", dove l'ipocrisia è incarnata dal doppio.
Il suicidio finale simboleggia la necessità per l'uomo di uccidere una parte della sua natura per vivere in una società civilizzata, secondo Stevenson.
La duplicità è rappresentata dai due personaggi principali: Jekyll, il volto pubblico rispettabile, e Hyde, il lato oscuro presente in ognuno, che emerge nelle aree malfamate di Londra.
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