During the novel The Stranger Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the reader experiences many weird actions. One being when Mr. Hyde ran into and knocked the little girl down he left her on the side walk screaming. In my opinion this shows that Mr. Hyde does not care at all about her. Also, I thought it was kind of mean that he ran inside his house, and came out with ten pounds of gold and gave the family a check. This gave me the impression that all Mr. Hyde cared about was keeping his reputation good and not about the girl he knocked down.
The prereading articles connect to this novel because they say that people with mental illeness' remained untreated in their homes. I feel Mr. Hyde has some sort of mental illness because when he came out with the check, it did not have his name or signture but it did have Dr. Jekyll's name and signture. I think that onlya criminal ot mentally ill person would fordge and or steal someones signture and check.
The overall theme of this novel so far is; during this time period your reputation decides who you are as a person in society.
I wrote about the same topic about how Mr.Hyde ran over the girl without noticing. I would say its not because Mr. Hyde did not care about the girl, however Mr. Hyde was not in his full consciousness. Anyway, like like your point about how it is sort of freaky and weird how Mr. Hyde is trying to hide his mistake or crime by paying the family money. I completely agree that during this time period a person's reputation or honor was worth more than their social class. Look at my blog to see more of my ideas and view points for this topic.
ReplyDeletei think its kind of ironic how in that society, your manners would be considered more important than your physical apperance, but in todays society, its basically the opposite..a good majority of people would look at a mentally or physically handicapped person and sort of judge them on their apperance,rather than their personality. [good job by the way!]
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