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From: Holden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 18:06:43 -0400
Subject: wrote an essay using biblatex

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+\begin{document}
+{\parindent0pt\obeylines
+Holden Rohrer
+Markley
+English Composition II
+6 Sep 2020
+}
+\centerline{\large\bfseries Strangeness as Moral Hypocrisy}
+In both texts, ``strange'' describes a contradiction: in {\itshape The
+Strange Case of Dr.~Jekyll and Mr.~Hyde}, the contradiction is between
+an upstanding member of society (Dr.~Jekyll) and his support of vice in
+private; in {\itshape The Sign of Four}, the contradiction is between a
+killer's cheerful and righteous demeanor and his crimes so horrible they
+take away any sympathy mild-mannered Watson might have afforded him.
+{\itshape The Strange Case} is literally extraordinary, since
+metamorphosis from a drug is a supernatural occurrence, but most of the
+strangeness derives from more ``ordinary'' facts, presented in the
+detective novel genre.
+Like Holmes in {\itshape The Sign of Four}, Mr.~Utterson goes on a path
+of discovery which starts with a mounting number of inexplicable facts.
+First amongst these is the story of the door.
+
+``The man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming
+on the ground\dots it  was  like  some damned Juggernaut\dots [on the
+check was] a name at least very well known and often printed.''
+\autocite[6-7]{Jekyll}
+Utterson is originally alarmed by the clear disconnect between Jekyll's
+upstanding reputation and Hyde's immoral and unhealthy nature.
+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.'' \autocite[24]{Jekyll}
+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.
+
+The buildup to Jonathan Small's strange story is comparable.
+It has some innate strangeness and contradiction, but the progressive
+development of evidence that Small is guilty of grand theft and felony
+murder makes it all the more surprising that Small believes he is
+justified and treats his own misdeeds that have resulted in his capture
+as mere bad luck.
+Small's story is so strange by another matter of contrast.
+Small is a very energetic and upfront man (implying he is healthy and
+moral), which contrasts with his sheer immorality---evidenced by his
+killing of the merchant Achmet: ``the thought of his treasure turned me
+hard and bitter. I cast my firelock between his legs as he raced past,
+and he rolled twice over like a shot rabbit.'' \autocite[46]{Four}
+The social aspect of the immorality of this man is obvious in Watson's
+reaction to him: ``I had now conceived the utmost horror of the man,
+\dots even more for the somewhat flippant and careless way in which he
+narrated it\dots I felt that he might expect no sympathy from me.''
+\autocite[46]{Four}
+
+Both of these cases are really rather similar in that they contrast the
+immoral with the moral to form a ``strange'' contradiction.
+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. %too bombastic?
+Health is tied to morality, and morality is tied to restraint from vice.
+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.
+Jekyll's attitude to vice shows this sort of casual distaste:
+``My life [had been] nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue,  and
+control'' \autocite[78]{Jekyll}.
+The conflation of health and morality is evidenced in Watson's pleading,
+``it is a pathological and morbid process\dots why should you, for a
+mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which
+you have been endowed?'' \autocite[3]{Four}
+Mr.~Hyde emphasizes the belief that immorality implies unhealthfulness.
+``Edward  Hyde,  alone  in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil,''
+which is why he is unhealthy and ``gives a strong feeling of
+deformity'' \autocite[78]{Jekyll} \autocite[10]{Jekyll}.
+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.''
+
+\printbibliography
+\end{document}
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