In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde there is a motive on negative human emotions, like feelings of greed, and temptation. With these feelings there is often feelings of emptiness , or quasi monster feelings that make us strive for more and more, to attempt to fill up the empty spaces inside us, as we try to quench it with greed it, or to be prideful of our works which often leaves us prone to temptation to engulf more for our own self satisfaction, as to say “fill up our empty needs with false happiness”.
The door is a perfect metaphor for my point in which I’m trying to get across. Behind a close door we know nothing, but yet our curiosity sparks interest in which we want to know what lays dormant behind it. We are tempted to know and that feeling build and build until we feel empty and can only feel satisfied when our curiosity is lock away, but only for a short amount of time.
But when we don’t satisfy our own emptiness or monster like feelings that harbor inside us , it leads us to change. Our personality becomes more grotesque, our looks become “ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running” causing us to strive, lashing out on our greed. Mr. Hyde is an example of unbound greed or temptation, his physical features are one of a demon, the way he talks to Utterson is described as “hissing” or "savage" laugh. These similar features of a demon is perfect symbolism because the devil which is associated with the 7 deadly sins, tries to tempt us into one of them.
I don't think I did this right. But yeah... :I
ReplyDeleteI like how you took this into a more religious light with the sin part. Because even though we can be absolved of what we did, we still will likely do it again, because it is a part of us. And I think you did this right. Nicely done.
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