Such duality of roles is expressed in terms of split personalities in both The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (1843-1916) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). In these fictional works, the characters are unable to cope with the split.

Stevenson seeks to reproduce the double by way of splitting a personality between accepted roles. In this case, the roles are split between appropriate and inappropriate masculine behavior and are issustrated through the characterizations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "Jekyll is an apparently respectable man", contends Calder (ii), "who contains within him a potential for profound wickedness, released in the shape of Mr. Hyde". According to Calder (ii) "AJ Symonds, a friend of Robert Stevenson, and many others found this chilling to contemplate."

The society of men is Stevenson's main focus and is evident in the nu

"The terrors suffered by Hyde during his final days arise in part from his surroundings: the very symbols of bourgeois respectability that he exists to repudiate do him in. On the other hand, he seems to feel bizarrely at home in these surroundings. If for instance we ask who set the table for tea on this final night, the answer has to be Hyde and not Jekyll, since Utterson and Poole, prior to breaking in the door, agree that they have heard only Hyde's voice and Hyde's 'patient' footsteps from within the room that evening" (DJMH 68-69).

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Richard Hocks said of James' fiction that it "at once reinvents the very genre of 'double' literature and simultaneously condenses rich and multitudinous levels of meaning into an economy of form" (in Thompson 192). For example, Marcher finds in May a mirror image of himself. He writes:

In The Beast in the Jungle, May Bartram gives Marcher this support. He constantly goes over and over in his mind her graces. He says of her, "There was that in his situation, no doubt, that disposed him too much to see her as a mere confidant, taking all her light for him from the fact--the fact only--of her interest in his predicament; from her mercy, sympathy, seriousness, her consent not to regard him as the funniest of the funny" (BIJ 544). He continues, "...her price for him was just in her giving him this constant sense of his being admirably spared...." (BIJ 544). In other words, she is written in to spare him the horror of discovering the beast within him. She does it so well, that "...she had in fact a wonderful way of making it seem, as such, the secret of her own life too. That was in fine how he so constantly felt her as allowing for him..." (BIJ 545).

Perry, Patrick. "Personality Disorders: Coping with

and Mr. Hyde. New York: Penguin: 1979.

In the end, it is Jekyll that is blasphemous (DJMH 71).

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