/lit/ - Literature

RLS didn't want to complicate something as simple as good and evil.

"I understood a great deal of the spirit of what went on. Indeed it would be difficult not to understand the Miserere, which I take to be the composition of an atheist. If it ever be a good thing to take such despondency to heart, the Miserere is the right music, and a cathedral a fit scene."

Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

>>7974

>Evil and good(degenerate and quality, punishment of degenerates in the name of quality, thus becoming "evil" to kill evil doers.)

i'm not sure about what you mean.

but i'd say that the book is not about evil per se, but rather about society and impulse control. i don't think i'm saying something controversial here.

>>7992

Society in the 18-19th century were prudish hypocritical degenerates(evil) people against quality and morality. People against understanding and acceptance of each other, they'd just just call you a witch and burn you alive.

This forces good lonely people like Jekyll to either integrate with them(Thus becoming evil) or stoop himself low to their level in order to kill them(again becoming evil) which sadly never happens in the book. His tragic ending at the wedding is a let down, like most tragic endings.

Along with being a social introspection of those times, it could have been an intellectual vs degenerate theme.

>>8002

>His tragic ending at the wedding is a let down

is that a figure of speech i am not aware of, but i don't remember weddings in the book.

>>8024

He's probably referring to the musical loosely based off of the book.