ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 61 TheDoppelgangerMotifinTheStrangeCaseof Dr.JekyllandMr.Hyde Kalayanee Subhavan* ABSTRACT TheStrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.HydewaswrittenbyRobert LouisStevensoninthelateVictorianera.Duringthetime,therewasagreat dealofchangethatchallengedoldbeliefsandexperiences.Onesubject thatinterestedmanywritersofthetimedealtwiththecomplexnatureof human psyche. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a psychologicalthrillerwhichpre-datesFreud’spsychoanalysis.Theduality ofmanisthemotiforthemeofStevenson’sshortnovelwhichcanbeseen, forexample,throughhischaracterization,thecharacters’dialogues,and thesetting. Thepurposeof thearticleistopointoutthemotifortheme throughtheseelementsthatarerepeatedandpredominateinthestory. Keywords:Doppelganger,Duality,Motif,SigmundFreud,Psychoanalysis บทคัดยอ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ประพันธ์โดย Robert LouisStevensonในปลายสมัยวิคตอเรียในช่วงเวลาดังกล่าวเกิดการเปลี่ยนแปลง มากมายที่ท้าทายความเชื่อและประสบการณ์เดิมๆประเด็นหนึ่งซึ่งเป็นที่สนใจของ นักเขียนหลายคนในยุคนั้นเกี่ยวกับความซับซ้อนของจิตมนุษย์ TheStrangeCase ofDr.JekyllandMr.Hydeเป็นวรรณกรรมสยองขวัญแนวจิตวิเคราะห์ซึ่งเกิดก่อน ความรู้เรื่องจิตวิเคราะห์ของฟรอยด์จะเป็นที่แพร่หลายบุคลิกภาพสองขั้วของคนคือ * Lecturer,DepartmentofEnglishandLinguistics,FacultyofHumanities,Ramkhamhaeng University 62 ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 แนวคิดหลักหรือแก่นของเรื่องนี้ ซึ่งสังเกตได้จากบุคลิกตัวละครจากบทสนทนาของ ตัวละครและฉากที่ผู้ประพันธ์นำเสนอบทความนี้มุ่งชี้ให้เห็นความคิดหลักหรือแก่น ของเรื่องผ่านลักษณะต่างๆเหล่านี้ที่ปรากฏซ้ำๆตลอดทั้งเรื่อง คำหลัก: สองบุคลิก,บุคลิกที่แยกเป็นสองลักษณะ,แนวเรื่องหลัก,ซิกมันด์ฟรอยด์,จิตวิเคราะห์ Thedualityofnaturehasintriguedwritersforcenturies,sincemanis a complex being possessing different or even strange traits that can contradicteachother.Forthatreason,anyworksaddressingtheproblems inherent in man’s dual nature may easily attract readers’ interest. Even beforepsychoanalytictheorieswereofficiallyformulatedatthebeginningof thetwentiethcentury,thedoppelganger,orthemotifofthe“double”,was usedbyseveralnotablewritersintheirmostfamousworks,suchasMary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr.JekyllAndMr.Hyde (1886),andOscarWilde’sThePictureOfDorianGray(1891). One literary main idea, the doppelganger, firstly recognized in GermanRomanticism,becamepopularduringtheEnglishRomanticperiod when the theme of double personalities was popularlyshowninvarious Gothicnovels.ThecarryingonofthispopularitywasduetotheVictorian period’sfeelingsofconfidenceandoptimism.However,mostgoodfeelings finallyendedwithdiscontent,uncertaintyandincreasingdoubt.Thiswas duetolotsofmigrationproblemsofmillionsofupcountrypeopletofind workincities.Thoseproblemssuchasurbandegeneration,masspoverty, sicknessanddemoralization,togetherwithfastchangesanddevelopments innearlyeveryaspect,seriouslyaffectedthetraditionalsociety.Medical andscientificadvances,alongwiththeadventoftechnologicalknowledge, stronglyconflictedwiththeformerknowledgeandconservativebeliefs.This is because many scientific, social and psychological breakthroughs ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 63 broughtabouttheorieswhichwerenotaccordingtothoseformerbeliefs.As a result of these questionable issues, many were in doubt of concepts concerningrealityoftruth.Andoneofthemwasthedoubtinthenatureof humanmind.Thisincreasinginterestledtoonepredictablemainsubjectin manypsychologicalthrillersduringtheperiod. Thedoppelgangerorthe“thedouble”becameonepopularliterary meansused topresent maincharacterswithdualpersonalities.Inmost cases, dark sides were against moral sides. The concept happened to corroborate Sigmund Freud’s theory of each person having 3 parts controllingone’sself.Theywere‘id’,‘ego’,and‘superego’.Idwasbelieved torespondtoallsituationsinstinctivelyandmaybeunconsciously,while ego was aware of one’s self and reasonably acted between id and the externalworldaccordingtosocialrulesandetiquettewhendecidinghowto behave.Finally,superego,whichconsistedof2systems:theconscience andtheidealself,wassupposedtocontroltheidimpulsesandpushthe egotowardsperfection.Superegowasalsoresponsibleforthefeelingof guiltifonefailedinwhatevertask,andkeptonebehaveproperlyinsociety. InFreud’sopinion,keepingthebalanceofthese3partsmadeitpossible foronetoleadanormallife. Freud(1856-1939)explainsthatiftheid-theinstinctive,impulsive partofthepsyche-iseitherseverelyrepressedornotcontrolledatallbythe egoorthesuperego,thentheuncannymayappear.AccordingtoFreud, “the uncanny applies to everything that was intended to remain secret, hiddenaway,andhascomeintotheopen.”(Freud,2003)Theappearance of the doppelganger, or the double, is a form of the uncanny. This is explainedbyCarlJung(1875-1961)asoneofthearchetypesofthepsyche, which he refers to as the shadow. “The shadow exists as part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, weaknesses, 64 ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 desires,instincts,andshortcomings.Theshadowisoftendescribedasthe darkersideofthepsyche,representingwildness,chaos,andtheunknown. Theselatentdispositionsarepresentinallpeople,althoughtheysometimes denythiselementoftheirownpsycheandinsteadprojectitontoothers.” (Kendra,C.,2014)SimilartoFreud,Jungbelievestheappearanceofthe double can cause complications. The best possible solution for a fragmentedpsycheistomenditandmakeitwholeonceagain: Thisconfrontationisthefirsttestofcourageontheinnerway,a testsufficienttofrightenoffmostpeople,forthemeetingwith ourselvesbelongstothemoreunpleasantthingsthatcanbe avoidedsolongaswecanprojecteverythingnegativeintothe environment.Butifweareabletoseeourownshadowandcan bearknowingaboutit,thenthesmallpartoftheproblemhas alreadybeensolved:wehaveatleastbroughtupthepersonal unconscious.Theshadowisalivingpartofthepersonalityand thereforewantstolivewithitinsomeform.Itcannotbeargued out of existence or rationalised as harmless. This problem is exceedinglydifficultbecauseitnotonlychallengesthewhole man,butremindshimatthesametimeofhishelplessnessand ineffectuality.(Jung,1968) In short, in order to form and bring back one’s coherent psychic whole, the person who is troubled by the double must first identify and acknowledgethatdoubleandtakeresponsibilitybyacceptingitsexistence. Thisisthewaytobeginthere-assimilationoftheself. Based on these psychological analyses, the doppelganger is arecurringmotifinliterature,whichcanappearinvariousrelationstothe character that is being doubled. Christine M. Gamache concludes that “Adoublecanbelatent(onlyseenintheprotagonist’smind)ormanifest (physically there in the real world), and can be either consciously or unconsciouslycreated.Furthermore,adoublecanrepresentadivisionof ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 65 the self, as in a separated fragment of the protagonist’s psyche, or a multiplication of the self, in which there is not a split but rather the appearanceofanothercharacterthatisverysimilarinmanywaystothe initialcharacterandoftentimesanautonomousbeing.”(Gamache,2011) TheStrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.Hyde,isperhapsoneofthe mostfamousliteraryexamplesofthedoppelganger.Itwaswrittenwhile Freud’spsychoanalyticaltheorieswerestillbeingformulated.Interestingly, theissuesraisedinthebookanticipatedandconfirmedmanyoftheideas inFreud’stheories.TheStrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.Hydeisthestory ofDr.HenryJekyll,aprestigiousandrespectedphysicianinconservative Victoriansociety.Jekylliswellawareoftheevilthatresideswithinhimand theduplicityofthelifeheleads.Deeply,hewantstofreethisevilinhimbut isafraidofdoingsoopenlyforfearofsocialcriticism.Inordertogratifythis urgeinside,heusesapotiontotransformhisappearance.Heconsciously creates his double–Edward Hyde–and shares the same body with his double.SinceHyde’sphysicalappearanceandpsychearedifferentfrom thatofthecreator,Jekyllispleasedthathecanfreelyenjoythepleasures thatbothpartsofhisbeingdesire.Atthebeginning,Jekyllcancontrolthe process of transformation, but as time passes, the evil personality of Mr.HydetakesoverthatofDr.Jekyll,andmakesitmoredifficultforJekyll to reverse the process. The growing autonomy of Hyde forces Jekyll to makeadecision.Thatistodissociatehimselffromhisdouble,whichfinally leadstohisdoom. The characters in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde clearly manifest Freud’s structural theory of the mind. Jekyll represents everyone’sego.Heisconsciousandrational,andisdominatedbysocial norms. However, inside, he has a difficult time struggling between the demands of the id, represented by the character of Hyde, and the 66 ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 superegoasrepresentedbytheproclaimedandimplicitconstraintsofthe Victoriansociety.Asaresult,whileJekyllmaintainshisrespectabilityand gentility to conform to necessary outward appearances and decorum, hegraduallygivesintotheeviltemptationsoftherepressedsideofhisself, which is completely opposite to his ideal self. He admits to himself hissenseofguiltandshameattheduplicityofhislife: And indeed, the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaietyofdisposition,suchashasmadethehappinessofmany, butsuchasIfoundithardtoreconcilewithmyimperiousdesire to carry my head high, and wear a more commonly grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that I conceal my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection,andbegantolookroundmeandtakeastockofmy progressandpositionintheworld,Istoodalreadycommittedto a profound duplicity of life. Many a man would have even blazonedsuchirregularitiesasIwasguiltyof;butfromthehigh views that I set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almostmorbidsenseofshame.(Stevenson,2005) AlthoughJekylltriestohidehiswickedpartofhimselftoconformto Victorian’s social standards and respectability, the urge to reveal the personalityrepressedunderneathissostrongthathedecidestocreatehis double.Herealisesandacceptsthisdualnatureinhimselfandwantsto live both lives separately, believing that the encasement of man’s evil qualitiesinsideofaseparatebeingwillfreetherighteousparttodetach itselfpermanentlyfromthenotionofguilt: Ifeach,Itoldmyself,couldbutbehousedinseparateidentities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust mightgohisway,deliveredfromtheaspirationsandremorseof hismoreuprighttwin;andthejustcouldwalksteadfastlyand securelyonhisupwardpath,doingthegoodthingsinwhichhe found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 67 penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. (Stevenson, 2005). Toemphasizethedoppelgangermotif,Stevensoncarefullycrafted hischaractersaswellasthesetting.Forexample,hemakesitclearthat Hydeistheevil,hidden,andprimitivepartofJekyllinphysicallook.When he is first described by Enfield, Hyde’s ruthless, brutal, and destructive characteristicsareobvious: I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastwardatagoodwalk,andtheotheragirlofmaybeeightor tenwhowasrunningashardasshewasabledownacrossstreet.Well,sir,thetworanintooneanothernaturallyenoughat thecorner;andthencamethehorriblepartofthething;forthe man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screamingontheground.Itsoundsnothingtohear,butitwas hellish tosee.Itwasn’tlikeaman;itwaslikesomedamned Juggernaut.(Stevenson,2005). Utterson also refers to Hyde as a sort of cave-dwelling creature: “the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?” (Stevenson,2005).Poole,Jekyll’sservant,exclaimsthat“whenthatmasked thinglikeamonkeyjumpedupfromamongthechemicalsandwhippedinto thecabinet,itwentdownmyspinelikeice.”(Stevenson,2005)Whilethe animalistic,primitivepartofHydeisemphasized,thereadersarealways remindedthattwopersonalitiesdwellinthesamebody,asJekyllstates: “IthusdrewsteadilynearertothattruthbywhosepartialdiscoveryIhave beendoomedtosuchadreadfulshipwreck:thatmanisnottrulyone,but trulytwo.”(Stevenson,2005) Thedoppelgangermotifisalsoreflectedinthesettingofthestory. ThebuildingsandthestreetswhereJekyllandHydelivereflectthetrue personalityandpsychologyoftheirowners.Jekyll’sandHyde’shousesare actuallyoneedifice,withtwofaçadesandseparatezones,connectedbya 68 ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 backpassage.Jekyll’shouselooksonahealthybusysquare,theotherone onasmall,darkside-street.Hyde’shouse“wastwostoreyshigh;showed nowindow,nothingbutadooronthelowerstoreyandablindforeheadof discolouredwallontheupper;boreineveryfeaturethemarksofprolonged andsordidnegligence.”(Stevenson,2005) This building, practically a ruin, on the dark side of the city representstheevil,decaying,repressedpartofthedoctor’sinnerselfand becomes the principal emblem of his duality. The two houses are connected by a secret passage from one of Hyde’s rooms to Jekyll’s laboratory.Thesecretpassagewayisthesymbolictransformationofthe good physician into his evil twin and vice versa. This is not only the exchangeofform,butitisalsotheexchangeoftheiroppositevaluesand visionsoflife;itshowsthatbothofthemaretwodifferentaspectsofthe same person. This passage stands between the twoworlds: thenormal everydayworldofthedoctor’ssociallifeandtheinfernalabyssofHyde’s hell,whereheplungeswhenfallingpreytohisevilside.Inotherwords,itis the passage from the ego to the id or the unconscious. The door symbolisesapointofentryto,ordivisionbetween,differentaspectsofthe psyche.Thewriter,inshort,presentsthehouseasthemetaphorforJekyll’s fragmentedandchaoticpersonality. WhenJekyllseeshisfacereflectedinhisbedroommirrorafterthe transformationbytheeffectofthepotion,hefeelsjoyfulatthesightofthe self he had excluded from his surface life for so long: “And yet when I lookeduponthatuglyidolintheglass,Iwasconsciousofnorepugnance, ratherofaleapofwelcome.This,too,wasmyself.Itseemednaturaland human. Inmyeyesit borealivelier imageof thespirit,itseemedmore express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had beenhithertoaccustomedtocallmine.”(Stevenson,2005)Itisevidentthat ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 69 hisdelightmayberootedintwopsychologicalreasons.Ontheonehand,it isthegratificationoftherepresseddesiresandneeds,whileontheotherit is probably his personal revenge on the social system that makes him adoptapersonathathedoesnotfeelateasewith. Forafewmonths,Jekyllfeelssatisfiedwithhistwocharactersas well as his two appearances. But once he loses contact with his moral sensebysplittingoffintoHyde,degenerationquicklyfollows.Underthe countenanceofHyde,heallowshimselftocommitavarietyofheinousacts indirectviolationofhisconscience.Hispreviouslyundignified“pleasures” becomemonstrousandmoresadistic.ThereleaseofHyde–theid–carries with it an excessive aggression that leads to his savage murder of Sir DanversCarew.Atthestart,JekyllbelievesthatHydeisdependentonhim, but having broken off from Jekyll and the influential conscience of the superego,Hyde’sirrationalandinstinctualpowerbecomesuncontrollable. Horrified and remorseful, Jekyll tries to lock the double away, but soon learns that Hyde can no longer be contained. The power of the id–the unconsciouspartofJekyll–isevidentwhenHydestartsreturningwithout being called for. He makes his first appearanceoneday whileJekyllis literally unconscious, lying asleep in bed. He awakes to see his hand transformed;itis“lean,corded,knuckly,ofaduskypallor,orthicklyshaded withaswartgrowthofhair.”(Stevenson,2005)Heimmediatelyrealisesthat henowrunstheriskoflosingcontroloverhisdouble:“ifthisweremuch prolonged,thebalanceofmynaturemightbepermanentlyoverthrown,the powerofvoluntarychangebeforfeited,andthecharacterofEdwardHyde becomeirrevocablymine.”(Stevenson,2005) Under forced circumstances, Jekyll has decided to choose one personaovertheother.Itisnotaneasydecision.Itisdifficultbecausethe pleasure in Hyde’s actions remains irresistible, as he reveals after the terriblecrimehecommittedagainstCarew: 70 ÇÒÃÊÒÃÇÔªÒ¡ÒÃÁ¹ØÉÂÈÒʵÃáÅÐÊѧ¤ÁÈÒʵà »‚·Õè 23 ©ºÑº·Õè 41 Á¡ÃÒ¤Á - àÁÉÒ¹ 2558 Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transportofglee,Imauledtheunresistingbody,tastingdelight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeedthatIwassuddenly,inthetopfitofmydelirium,struck throughtheheartbyacoldthrillofterror.Amistdispersed;I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratifiedandstimulated,myloveoflifescrewedtothetopmost peg.(Stevenson,2005) Jekyll knows well that his doppelganger’s powerful autonomy is strengthening, whereas his own integrity of self is gradually weakening. This, according to Freud, is a pathological condition when two or more equallypowerfulpartsoftheselfarestrugglingforconsciousness: If they obtain the upper hand and become too numerous, unduly powerful and incompatible with one another, a pathological outcome will not be far off. It may come to a disruption of the ego in consequence of the different identifications becoming cut off from one another by resistances; perhaps the secret of the cases of what is described as “multiple personality” is that the different identificationsseizeholdofconsciousnessinturn.(Freud,1960) AlthoughhedoesnotdenythatHydeisapartofhim,Jekyllnever intends to be a part of Hyde, which means that he refuses to take any responsibilityforhisdouble’saction.Despitethefactthatthegoodandevil existinsideofhim,Jekyll’sfinalresponsetothisdilemmaisnotanattempt toresolveoralleviatetheconflictbetweenpersonaldrivesandhissocial aspiration,butliterallytoseparatethem.Awholeselfcomprisestheid,the ego,andthesuperego,accordingtoFreud’sstudy,sotheefforttomakea cleandivorcebetweentheconstituentelementsleadstotheendofJekyll’s existence.Toconclude,bydestroyinghisdoubletopreservetheidealself thatheprojectstotheworld,Jekyllunintentionallysucceedsindestroying himself,aswell. 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