Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde
(3) Jekyll is ultimately compelled to unlash Mr.. Hyde
because of his curiosity of the duality of people and his thirst for scientific
study into the two sides that he hypothesizes people are comprised of, one of
total good, the other complete evil. Jekyll is compelled to continue his deadly
game because of the freedom he feels as Hyde and the release he gets from
letting his evil side, his deepest desires, his id, run free after it has been
suppressed by his superego for all of his life.
(4) When Jekyll says that man is, “truly two,” and that, “in
the agonized womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously
struggling,” he is explaining his hypothesis that all men have a complete good
and a complete evil side and that they are in constant battle for control of
the man. Jekyll’s struggle is in fact a human one between a man’s id, his
deepest desires, and superego, what is socially acceptable; these two sides are
mitigated by the mans ego, which is what he decides to do after weighing the
costs and benefits of following each side.
(5) In the beginning Jekyll just views his transformation
into Hyde as an escape but as he become more addicted to transforming, similar
to someone becoming addicted to a drug, he looses control of his
transformations and his feelings in his relationship with Hyde become more
negative. After Hyde kills a man Jekyll tries to give up the transforming but
finds he is an addict to the release Hyde provides for him, and as Jekyll
looses control Hyde takes over and becomes stronger off of Jekyll’s growing
weakness.
(6) 1. (Page 44) “The evil side of my nature, to which I had
now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than
the good which I had deposed. Again, in the course of my life, which had been,
after all, nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue and control, it had been much
less exercised and much less exhausted.” à
It shows how Hyde began weak from lack of use but was also less tired and worn
out than Jekyll’s proper side, his superego, which had been running full power
all of his life.
2. (Page 49) “Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged.
With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting bode, tasting delight for
very blow; and it was not till wearied had begin to succeed that I suddenly, in
the top of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.” à It shows how once
Hyde’s id was able to gain power and strength over time and take Jekyll over
fully and consume him, allowing him to carry out his innermost evil desires
with no mercy or conscience.
Fight Club
(1) Tyler represents the Freudian category of consciousness
called id, while the speaker represents the ego, and there is a lack of a
superego represented. Tyler represents the id because he is the narrator’s
desires running wild without a superego to balance it out, while the narrator
represents the ego because he is not all good as a super ego would be, rather
he tries to reign in the id and compromise with the unseen superego.
(2) We should see Tyler as more of a negative manifestation
of Jack’s unconscious mind because although he allows Jack to fulfill his
deepest desires and be free it is at the expense of the well being of others.
Tyler lives by id alone and has no superego to reign him in, only the
unsuccessful ego of Jack to attempt reason, so he runs wild and convinces
others to carry out actions that benefit him rather than the larger population,
based on his personal views on how society is corrupt and what should be
changed or fixed about it.
(3) Because by the end of the movie Jack realizes that he is
also Tyler he is in his way to becoming a whole or well balanced person, but he
still has a lot of work to do. He tries to remedy the damage he has done as
Tyler comes to the epiphany that it was in fact him who carried out these acts.
The significance of Jack and Marla ending up together at the end of the movie
is that he cites her as the person who started ignited his Tyler flame, because
when she forced him out of support groups he turned to Tyler as a way to
release himself and become a different person.
(4) 1. Job Inequality: Tyler rebels against this by making
all of those who participate in fight club nameless, making them all equal
despite what they do and who they are in the real world
2. Monetary Inequality: Tyler rebels against this by wiping
all of the banks clean at the end of the movie by blowing up their main
buildings
3. Importance of Possessions:
Tyler rebels against this by blowing up Jack’s apartment, destroying all of his
worldly possessions
Strangers on a Train
(1) By the end of the film Guy gets everything he wants,
Bruno solves all of his problems, and he is ultimately better off. Guy no
longer has to deal with his wife and her refusal to divorce him due to a fake
pregnancy, leaving him able to now marry Anne and successfully use her to climb
the social ladder setting him up to become a politician in the future. Bruno also fully clears him of any blame in
his wife’s murder by dying with his lighter in his hand, which acts as the
smoking gun that allows the police to close the case and pin the murder on
Bruno.
(2) Bruno is the manifestation of Guy’s inner id because he
doe all of the things Guy wishes he could do but his superego and ego prevent
him from doing. An example of things that Bruno might do to fulfill Guy’s
innermost desires is killing his old wife so that he can marry his new one
without having to deal with getting a divorce from his wife who is pregnant
with another man’s baby but threatens to claim it is his to keep him married to
her and to keep his fame and fortune. Although Bruno represent Guy’s id, Guy
does not represent the ego but rather the superego, which is why he is able to
come to terms with the murder and not disclose his involvement to the police
and instead simply reap the benefits of Bruno, his id.
(3) You could say that there is a love triangle between
Anne, Guy, and Bruno in the film, (where Anne and Guy mutually love each other,
Anne a little more than Guy, and Bruno’s love for Guy is unreturned), but in
fact it is much more complicated than that. It can be shown that Anne loves
Guy, from her attempts to get Bruno’s mom to stop Bruno from getting Guy into
trouble, that Guy loves Anne, because he wants to divorce his wife to marry her
(it should be noted that he might also love her more for her status as the
daughter of a politician seeing as he wants to be a politician), and Bruno
loves Guy, because he shows a unnatural and heightened obsession with Guy and
over exaggerated their relationship in addition to his flamboyant tendencies
such as having his mom give him a manicure which is supposed to point to him
being gay. But this triangle leaves out the fact that Anne’s sister loves Guy
and that Guy’s wife loves Guy for his fame.
(6) This movie is about Bruno’s ability to help guy climb
higher on the social ladder because he gets rid of Bruno’s old wife which frees
him up to marry Anne, who’s father is a Senator, which allows him to further
his social status which he hopes will help him become a politician one day.
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