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- Title
Wild Humans: The Culture/Nature Duality in Marie Darrieussecq's "Pig Tales" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
- Authors
Ferrer-Medina, Patricia
- Abstract
This essay analyzes the literary content of Marie Darrieussecq's "Pig Tales" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." In the two novels, the use of the Wild Human subtext as a protagonist has reportedly confront the reader with the culture and nature binary opposite in the form of civilization and wilderness. For instance, in "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," a protagonist who partakes of two essence is presented. By drinking the potion Mr. Hyde has devised to loose Jekyll's evil side, the author's allegation claiming that the general essence of the human being is a composite of both good and evil tendencies is asserted. Meanwhile, in "Pig Tales," Darrieussecq's idea that a human is torn between two personalities is also maintained.
- Subjects
LITERATURE studies; HUMANITIES education; PIG Tales: A Novel of Lust &; Transformation (Book); STRANGE Case of Dr Jekyll &; Mr Hyde, The (Book); DARRIEUSSECQ, Marie; STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; MULTIPLE personality; STORY plots; FICTION
- Publication
Comparatist, 2007, Vol 31, p67
- ISSN
0195-7678
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/com.2007.0004