From ee78281b56da9c2e7b2c918744384a0adac9002e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:30:26 -0400 Subject: added revision activity --- markley/12_revision | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+) create mode 100644 markley/12_revision (limited to 'markley/12_revision') diff --git a/markley/12_revision b/markley/12_revision new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8946ab --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/12_revision @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ + + +Revision Activity on the first reading response essay + +Paragraph one + +``The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming +on the ground...it was like some damned Juggernaut...[on the check was] +a name at least very well known and often printed.'' + Direct evidence because of quotation. Might be better as more +separate statements. + +Utterson is originally alarmed by the clear disconnect between Jekyll's +upstanding reputation and Hyde's immoral and unhealthy nature. + Analytic statement. Doesn't directly correspond to the quote, but +the story motivates Utterson's fear. + +He believes their link to be because Hyde is coercing Jekyll, which is +why he repeatedly interviews Jekyll, but, as revealed later in the book, +Hyde is Jekyll, and Jekyll is being entirely honest when he shuts down +the line of questioning with ``My position is a very strange---a very +strange one.'' + Argument for why this quote and Hyde's behavior so disturb Utterson. + +The case would be less strange if it were chronologically revealed from +Dr. Jekyll's perspective because, although supernatural in nature, none +of the apparent sinister contradictions would be contradictions. + Argument/so what. Doesn't perfectly connect to the course theme of +health but argues about moral contradiction and how the +story-telling affected the reader's view. + +The introduction was used to get down to this level of abstraction, but +there isn't really a concrete statement about why I'm listing these +specific quotes at the beginning. A link to health from a perspective +about moral and social standing is certainly possible, but I missed it. +This should probably be constructed as an argument about the more +general genre leading into the quote as evidence of reason behind the +fear. + +Strangeness is in the eye of the beholder, and Stevenson presents his +story in a specific format to build this sense. +Mr. Utterson plays the role of the audience to the tale of Jekyll and +Hyde, and his fear of Hyde's immorality harming his friend Jekyll +develops the sense of strangeness. +The assumed health of Dr. Jekyll contradicts with unscrupulous dealings +with an unscrupulous man whom Mr. Utterson is shown the true nature of +in the talk with his friend. +``The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming +on the ground...it was like some damned Juggernaut'' +He believes their link to be coercion, which makes it even more bizarre +when he learns that the upstanding citizen Jekyll is dealing entirely +voluntarily with Hyde. +Dr. Jekyll's chronological perspective would be less strange because he, +in his letter declares himself as a less intrinsically healthy and moral +man, so his adventures with Hyde would be less surprising. + + + +Both of these cases are really rather similar in that they contrast the +immoral with the moral to form a ``strange'' contradiction. + So what: tries to connect the two stories by weaving this thread of +morality and immorality defining strangeness. + +While the modern sense of morality has strayed from the explicit +condemnation of vice, the Victorian morality that these stories apply is +in no way implicit. + So what: continues talking about why these stories use morality in +such a culture-specific way, mostly molded by concerns about vices. + +Health is tied to morality, and morality is tied to restraint from vice. + Argument: tries to connect the behavior of characters in the stories +to the contradiction of morality and immorality as well as vices. + +Despite Holmes's cocaine's use to show his dedication, Watson +appealing to Holmes's sense of better nature (i.e. health/morality) +shows that vice, although casually accepted, is frowned upon. + Analytic statement + +Jekyll's attitude to vice shows this sort of casual distaste: +``My life [had been] nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue, and +control'' + Direct evidence + +The conflation of health and morality is evidenced in Watson's pleading, +``it is a pathological and morbid process...why should you, for a +mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which +you have been endowed?'' + Direct evidence + +Mr. Hyde emphasizes the belief that immorality implies unhealthfulness. + Analytic statement + +``Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,'' +which is why he is unhealthy and ``gives a strong feeling of +deformity.'' + Direct evidence + +The hypocritically unhealthy characters of these stories are abnormal, +given the implicit assumption that most people follow mores, and they +are therefore surprising, difficult to explain, and ``strange.'' + Argument: continues to construct an argument about the strange and +the abnormal but doesn't connect it back to anything with teeth or +establish an absolute connection from immorality to strangeness and +health. + + + +Health is tied to morality, and morality, especially under the Victorian +moral system, is restraint from vice. +Despite Holmes using cocaine to show his dedication to work, Watson +appealing to Holmes's sense of better nature (i.e. health/morality) +shows that vice, although casually accepted, is frowned upon. +The conflation of health and morality is evidenced in Watson's pleading, +``it is a pathological and morbid process...why should you, for a +mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which +you have been endowed?'' +``Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,'' +which is why he is unhealthy and ``gives a strong feeling of +deformity.'' +Mr. Hyde emphasizes the belief that immorality implies unhealthfulness. +Jekyll and Sherlock, with their indulgence, feel guilt as part of the +social expectation of moral health, so they are not particularly strange +in and of themselves, despite the immoral actions they take part in. +Hyde and Smalls, however, appal the people they interact with, and when +this immorality interacts with standard mores, they are surprising and +strange. -- cgit