Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Analysis

Through studying Sontag’s fictions, especially the comparison between “Dr. Jekyll” and Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the novel and special narrative theory been played at their maximism. Sontag combines the loose segment with the complex mental suffer, creating a both imaginary and real time and space. These ingenious narrative content and form, not only a new creation for the original work, but also helps us reach a high level to understand the deep structure and theme viewpoints of Sontag’s fiction.

a.The staggered time and space

Bakhtin once said, “There are lots of time-space body in one work, that these relationship can permeate, coexist, contrast, and opposite with each other, or in a more complicated relation. This unique time and space brings the novel into a artful world.” In “Dr. Jekya ll”, the author firstly start with the holiday of Jekyll on Saturday in May, “Jekyll is
Jekyll, a middle class American----living a cozy city life, having a happy family, doing a stable job and keeping a good body shape, however, he is discontent with all the things around him, “a heartfelt desire to change his life” (217) is always his eager. For Hyde, a poor man with a unhappy love experience, and lives far away from the city, without a good job, but he is free and can do anything he wants without control. The more important is that there is no so called rule for him. For Utterson, seems have a superpower to control Jekyll and Hyde, and also teaches many pupils to foresee the future. He has a servant, Poole, many pupils, a sacred institute and a imaginary line linked with Jekyll’s ankle. Even at the end of the story, he picks up the phone with the long cord in his bedroom in Oysteer Bay to dial the police, making Jekyll in a dank cell. So, the first clue connected with the noisy city life, the war’s trauma, and the blank happiness in the inner