knowing and advising morals of the elder generations, the good taught to
children of how we acted in the war is a mass split in our personalities and an
over-looking the other half of our own personality. ?The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? uses the industrial revolution to illustrate the same
thing. A strong and new advance in our society, prestigious and respectable but
in the back streets of these developed areas are the black bits, the split
personality of a mass of people?s triumph, but unlike ?The Darkness Out There,?
?The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde uses different people but from the
same original source to give split personalities rather than a variance in one
entity. When Sandra ?touched, secretly, the soft skin of her
thigh.? She feels herself to be young and near perfect, maybe she is trying to
see if she is experiencing this awakening, to the darker side of life, whilst,
still in contact with the soft, neat youth of innocence which she believed to
be true. Sandra here is realising the split personality of life, life has its
other ideas which she is getting tastes of now. ?She poked in a crack at a
clump of fluff,? means to me that once looking in the hidden cracks, you find
the dirty fluffy other split of the reality in life. ?The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? entertains us instead of educating us with plain facts of
the spilt personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The language of Jekyll and Hyde is far more old fashioned
and factual. Again it seems to tell a story to entertain. It could be described
as something for the reader to gain instant entertainment from. The Darkness
out there requires you to read between the lines or you will not fully benefit.
You partly tell yourself the story and make your own mind up. For example, the
?yellowing newspapers? and ?smell of mouse.? These can be visualised and
interpreted, even included into the story as much as desired. This relates to
the idea of a split personality, you can see between what the author has
written and you notice the splits in the story. Both evil characters show themselves enough for the others
to notice them but hide away enough so that it is only suspicion until they are
finally revealed. We see glimpses of each. The darkness out there has Mrs.
Rutter expressing her evil side quickly in sentences and through her eyes
quickly. Jekyll and Hyde has Mr. Hyde appearing at night and only being seen
briefly. They are there but haven?t been seen to their full extent. One hidden
physically, Jekyll and Hyde and the other mentally, The darkness out there.
This relates to the fact that we never see the full personalities in these two
texts together. They are split and we can only guess the full personality from
the parts of the two sides we see. Overall, Jekyll and Hyde is a story and the Darkness out
there is reality, it is an informative example of a moral. This is designed
very well to awaken you and at the same time make you remember. Even subtleties
like using the word ?bitch? to describe an old woman work very well in doing
this. Hearing an old woman calling a German soldier she is allowing to die
slowly and painfully a ?tough bastard? whilst dabbing her mouth with the utmost
etiquette, shocks! But maybe we can now link the two together. The dabbing of
her mouth is very smart and respectable, but can it be shown to symbolise her
thirst for evil and maybe she could even said to be drooling over the thought
as someone who laughs at death in such a way would be capable of that, the good
side of her is mopping up the bad side?s effect. The delicateness of her
actions could compensate for the bluntness of her evil actions. The two sides
of the personality balancing each other out.