Examples Of Social Norms In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

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he first film we watched this semester was Warner Brothers 1931 classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The film is about a budding scientist and socialite, Henry Jekyll, and his attempt to extract the “repressed” animalistic personality that he theorized is contained within every one of us. Needless to say, the experiment goes wonky and his dark side is exposed in the form of “Mr. Hyde”, a hideous man who has no restrictions to social norms. Through Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll is able to shed his social norms and is able to do whatever he pleases. He murders people, he shacks up with a woman of the night, he steals, etc. This story about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde expresses the notion of Monster through the motions of Mr. Hyde, and tells the audiences that …show more content…
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde does not stop at the ugliness of breaking social norms however, it also has a few things to say about women’s rights as well. In the film, there are two leading ladies that are vying for the affection of Dr. Jekyll (I say two because Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll), they are Muriel and Champagne Ivy. These two ladies could not be more further apart. Muriel is the prim and proper daughter of a general as well as a socialite. She is also Jekyll’s fiancee. She has no say in what goes or what she does. She was born and bred to be within the household and to take care of her man. This even goes to where half the movie is about Dr. Jekyll trying to get married to her early and needing her father’s permission. Oh, and in the entire movie, Muriel is dressed in white ( the message can be inferred there). On the other hand, is Champagne Ivy, who is a woman who’s main profession is to be a lady of the night, as well as a free wheeling busy bee. But she is a different kind of busy bee then Murial is, while Muriel is the accepted busy bee socialite, Ivy is the shunned busy bee of society because she expresses who she is and she expresses her sexual agency. She is not a woman to be tied down by society’s norms, but one that sheds them and therefore is shunned because of
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