The reader is expected to see Hyde as latent in Jekyll, not his opposite but one of his constituent parts. At times this book almost reads like a parable, a lesson from a sacred text. I note that, according to Google, the frequency of use of that word peaked around Who even dares talk about literature as a moral phenomenon? Freud would not approve. Nietzsche would throw a fit. Yet such is how Robert Louis Stevenson presented his most famous character. Stories delighted, but also taught.
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They prepared the young for adult life, preserved community values, and served as a storehouse of knowledge. We are familiar with other purposes of storytelling nowadays. Yet such books would not have the power to shock if not for thousands of years of a pre-existing paradigm, in which protagonists were heroes and both those who told these tales and those who listened believed that the behaviors described could serve, in some degree, as guideposts to the good life.
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This previous paradigm has never been refuted, even if it is no longer fashionable. Yet it still haunts our psyches…. This desire for moral outcomes is probably hardwired into our systems. So I am hardly surprised that Jekyll and Hyde often show up in the writings of people who care not a whit for literary criticism, but have embarked upon a personal voyage of dramatic proportions. Every day a marriage counselor somewhere hears complaints about the spouse with a "Jekyll and Hyde" personality.
They understand that this story is their story, and not a platform for fashionable lit crit. Digital humanities are hot nowadays, so in the next phase of their post-history Jekyll and Hyde will no doubt get turned into bits and bytes, translated into an algorithm or an app, and reveal their secrets through regression analysis.
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But will these new tools bring us any closer to the heart of this old novel? Stevenson was interested in the soul. Y eah, that might change—who knows what digital storage devices will actually store a century from now? We all might end up as digital downloads. In the meantime, read the book. You might find a lesson in it. Ted Gioia writes about music, literature and popular culture.
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