I expected this to be about the static site generators :D
What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)
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#12Isn't Hyde actually Shadow archetype from Jungian psychology?
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#13I have at times wondered if age do not bring better behavior, just an improved ability to hide the bad behavior.
Being good is 99% not being bad. I've definitely just ironed out my evil behaviours. So I can be your sample of 1.
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#14This is dead on target. It's also why I found the TV series _Angel_ (the _Buffy_ spin-off) so unsatisfying. There is a truly fascinating story to be told about a vampire whose soul has been restored to him, and who is always at war with his own evil nature. But _Angel_ is not it. Instead, the eponymous character is essentially entirely good except when some supernatural agency transforms him back into Angelus, his ev…
I think a modern fictional character that would come closer to the Jekyll-and-Hyde relationship as espoused in the parent article is the CW show Arrow. Oliver Queen is a harmless playboy in the public view (and in the last season, the mayor of his city), but he puts on the hood and does things, sometimes unspeakable things like torture and murder, in order to achieve his greater goal of "saving his city" from crime while leaving his public persona untarnished. He struggles with the notion that perhaps the Green Arrow persona is his true nature rather than the one he presents to the public.
Of course, that character assessment essentially apes Batman/Bruce Wayne as well; Batman is Hyde, Bruce is Jekyll, but Hyde and Jekyll are the same person with the same drives and impulses.
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#15Isn't Hyde actually Shadow archetype from Jungian psychology?
Carl Jung was 11 when the book was published, so perhaps it's the other way around?
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#16The 2010's version of this is a well-educated, well-raised, mild-mannered, socially-liberal, employed, tech-savvy millennial who starts on 4chan, moves on to /r/redpill and /r/mensrights, graduates to trolling and doxxing women on twitter, all for the LULZ. Eventually his freedom to "act as he can't in real life" leads to electing Donald Trump and a full on embracement of the alt-right agenda.
Why would they have to move on from 4chan? /pol/, /v/, and /r9k/ have all been instrumental to ops conducted over the past five years.
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#18This is dead on target. It's also why I found the TV series _Angel_ (the _Buffy_ spin-off) so unsatisfying. There is a truly fascinating story to be told about a vampire whose soul has been restored to him, and who is always at war with his own evil nature. But _Angel_ is not it. Instead, the eponymous character is essentially entirely good except when some supernatural agency transforms him back into Angelus, his ev…
Much better in this aspect is Fargo season 3, where Varga character - played brilliantly by David Thewlis - is sort of a Mr. Hyde to the protagonist's (Emmit Stussy) Jekyll - in my interpration.
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#19Somewhat similar points were made, decades ago, by Nabokov in his essay on this story in his Lectures on Literature. Of course Nabokov goes, as well, in much deeper and subtler directions.
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#20Isn't Hyde actually Shadow archetype from Jungian psychology?
Carl Jung was 11 when the book was published, so perhaps it's the other way around?
I didn't say that book is based on Jung, just that Hyde is maybe personification of Shadow archetype. What's your opinion, could that be true?