tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614853908944139211.post666465108903519909..comments2018-09-21T02:27:16.603-07:00Comments on Sally Bosco's Horror Reading Blog: Was Dr. Jekyll gay or just a repressed Victorian?Sally Boscohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12644800241021837062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614853908944139211.post-2086792478737539752018-09-21T02:27:16.603-07:002018-09-21T02:27:16.603-07:00Posted too soon. My wrong. No room for edit functi...Posted too soon. My wrong. No room for edit function:<br /><br /><br />...and Hyde is or can be, depending on one's persuasions, the Freudian Id, Jung's Collective Unconscious, or various other representations of those "cut off feeling" aspects of human nature that puzzle so many to this day. The story is in this respect as relevant today as it was a century ago.<br /><br />To attempt to put all its potential meanings, symbols and ideas under one rubric, as it were, strikes me as not only wrong but by even the Victorian standards of R.L. Stevenson's time near simple-minded. <br /><br />The author mined too rich a lode, and he dug too deep, for a shallow summation of the one size fits all sort. Jekyll & Hyde is if anything a challenge to facile conclusions to be drawn from it, therefore it rather bids the reader to absorb all its parts and at the very least ponder what ingesting such a potion as the good doctor drank and draw conclusions of his own, using his imagination to fuel what would one might out of necessity call a thought experiment without consequences. john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614853908944139211.post-53259236621122909652018-09-21T02:10:50.287-07:002018-09-21T02:10:50.287-07:00Lots of issues: homosexuality included, related to...Lots of issues: homosexuality included, related to hidden desires, with as much a substance abuse-addiction subtext as a gay one open to inclusion, as many have suggested over (recent mostly) years. <br /><br />Sexuality in J & H is massively and deliberately metaphorical, and this must be the author's intention inasmuch as so much material is left in the dark, unexplored, turned into horror. Yet for all this the topic of the unexplored, the unknown, is central to the work itself, which makes the tale's implications mysterious, difficult to fathom, thus, ironically, cryptic.<br /><br />Hyde is thus the symbol of all that is cryptic, dangerous, unconventional, taboo,<br />john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614853908944139211.post-23684412365047003832009-08-11T18:14:33.021-07:002009-08-11T18:14:33.021-07:00The point about hedonism is at the core of it, no?...The point about hedonism is at the core of it, no?Mike Arnzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02763802971675335870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614853908944139211.post-5812571842631360222009-08-10T23:22:28.794-07:002009-08-10T23:22:28.794-07:00My votes --
NOT gay
DEFINITELY repressed
POSSIBLY ...My votes --<br />NOT gay<br />DEFINITELY repressed<br />POSSIBLY bisexualNatalie Duvallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03790355926460420200noreply@blogger.com