What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (2012)

Post by lostboys67 » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 2:03 PM UTC

dTal wrote: post #23

scandox wrote: post #3

This is all absolutely correct, but what I feel it misses is that the mythic power of the story lies in our enjoying it, reading it naively. In other words we deliberately read it ourselves in repressed mode. If we read it the first time with the kind of clarity suggested here then we don't actually feel its power: we are merely interested - rather than complicit.

Astute observation, succinctly put. I would additionally add that it also works the other way; if a story's themes and metaphors are too clear before the story is over, it can damage suspension of disbelief and hurt enjoyment. This is one reason why the typical teaching methodology of a US high school English class typically has the effect of blunting the enjoyment of classic literature - students are not usually giv…

Post by lostboys67 » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

bananicorn wrote: post #2

I've never even read that book, but I probably should. As it's described in the article, I see many parallels with today's anonymised internet culture - we can be someone else, someone who doesn't have to fear any consequences for what he says, we can lie on the internet to (try to) form other's perception of ourselves, thus being whoever we want to be. But ultimately it's still the same person making those decisions…

Post by dagw » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 2:07 PM UTC

lostboys67 wrote: post #31

dTal wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Astute observation, succinctly put. I would additionally add that it also works the other way; if a story's themes and metaphors are too clear before the story is over, it can damage suspension of disbelief and hurt enjoyment. This is one reason why the typical teaching methodology of a US high school English class typically has the effect of blunting the enjoyment of classic literature - students are not usually giv…

Why would you not read the book in it entirety first as home work or in the holiday before you are due to cover the book in class? I certainly read all of my assigned texts an din the case of classical studies several other books and plays in the cannon.

Post by icebraining » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 2:29 PM UTC

lostboys67 wrote: post #33

bananicorn wrote: post #2

I've never even read that book, but I probably should. As it's described in the article, I see many parallels with today's anonymised internet culture - we can be someone else, someone who doesn't have to fear any consequences for what he says, we can lie on the internet to (try to) form other's perception of ourselves, thus being whoever we want to be. But ultimately it's still the same person making those decisions…

Arguably its about the hypocrisy of Victorian England

Post by abritinthebay » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 2:41 PM UTC

taneq wrote: post #32

deanCommie wrote: post #5

The 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.

Most of the doxxing I've read about recently has been sjw-led reddit witch hunts. >.>