Flog #4

People of the court I feel that it is in everyones best interest that this criminal Mr. Hyde, is put away. This misled individual suffers from a diseased mind whos diagnoses is destruction and chaos to those who are around him. For it is not this mans fault that he is mad in the mind, but a crime as severe as murder cannot go unpunished just because someones discrepancies of right and wrong  can be blamed on their mind that went mad. If we let this man free who knows what other horrors will uproar. What if the victim was your friend, your brother, your husband or someone you knew ? If you had the opportunity to sentence the cause of what killed a honest man you once knew , wouldn't you do all you could in your power to see it through? Finding justice not only for the crime he committed but putting the death of that person to rest and potentially keeping a very unfortunate incident like this from happening to someone else's friend, brother, husband etc.  A mentally unstable person has no place in a society circulating with innocent individuals that are being put in danger because a jury let one bad apple roam.

Blog assignment 3

The character I am most drawn to in the novel "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is Dr. Lanyon. I think this is because I can understand his logical thinking the best. I feel like in a way we relate. I know what its like to feel when you can see something for its pure evil and no matter how much you try to convince the ones around you to heed your warnings still they are blindsided of seeing the bad. Lanyon in my opinion is the most honest. I feel as if Utterson is way to personal. Although without doubt hes a great friend, his feelings are way to personal. He never once puts blame on Dr. Jekyll and looks for scapegoats in other things and people to tangent the public eye away from his dear friend.
 I think what Stevenson is trying to do is show the tolerance of real friendship. Not only that but he gets you thinking about what kind of people have certain tolerances. Like Dr. Lanyon, his persona was a educated friendly man yet, he knew when enough was enough. Where as the lawyer Mr. Utterson is more of a  disclosed uneasy man with his own secretive life. The factors of what makes people up contributes to how they value things and thats kind of what Stevenson' moral point could possibly be.

"Story of the Door " Reflection

A memorable  occurrence  in the readings of "Dr Jekyll and Mr .Hyde" as quoted by two excepts in the story were, "I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal , and that a man does not, in real life, walk in to a cellar door at four in the morning , and walk out with another mans cheque for close upon a hundred pounds. " and  , " I gave in the cheque myself, and said i had every reason to believe it was a forgery. Not a bit of it. The cheque was genuine".
  After doing a bit of reading about forgery in the Victorian era i found out that forgery was as extreme as murder, and was served with hanging as a justice being served punishment. It spurred a few questions. Lets say the check was fake, what action would Mr. Enfield had taken then? Would he have reported this impostor? Would he have done something even more extreme? When you think about a story you circle around that one event that causes everything to move in motion, like the world on its axis. If the check was faulty then this fraud Mr. Hyde would not only be publicized for his horrid deeds but would also be in trouble by law. As humans we all make assumptions that come the most natural to us. It was Mr. Enfield's natural intuition  that this check would be fake , which would some what ease his state of mind, but the irony was the fact that  the check indeed was not a forgery . From that point it put everything into perspective. It is the foundation of what is to come next. It makes you reflect on all of the things and memories in life that occur all from one tiny deal breaker. In this story that secret ingredient was the check being cashed without hesitation or suspicion of fraud from people such as the bank cashier. Without that event happening , Mr.Utterson would have not gone  home and studied over the will , he wouldn't have made attempts to get to the bottom of why Mr.Hyde had access to Dr. Jekyll's whole life , almost as if this vile man has stepped in one of his oldest friends shoes and taken his place. The small fact I am stressing in this entry is merely the realization of what events cause a story to be told.

  From the 5 articles listed ,  i choose  " Multiple Personality Disorder" . What I learned from the given information was ,  Multiple Personality disorder also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder is developed  from extreme traumatic experiences in ones early life. Such as,  sexual, physical and emotional  abuse .This causes a lack of connection in ones thoughts , memories , feelings, actions or sense of identity. Its a way for someone to cope with violent or painful experiences. 

   My over-all reaction towards this article was a mixture of interest and skepticism . I could not believe that someones multiple personalities could incorporate their own genders , races and ages. It kind of got me thinking of  all the people in history that had multiple personalities, and the destruction they could have caused because of it. It also spurred other curious questions such as, could these difference personalities do things like convince themselves they had different sicknesses such as cancer.Or if they were dying? And if one personality kills itself off, does another one develop? It makes you sad when you think about it because, these people are their own worst enemies. As stated in the article, people commit behaviors classified as "self sabotage" and "self-violence" .  Plus most of Dissociative Identity Disorder patients would do things normally they wouldn't find themselves doing, such as, stealing or being reckless because they feel compelled to do it. Almost like being possessed . As quoted , "feeling as being a passenger in their body rather than the driver". 

   How i think this article plays in with the novel is, considering the setting takes place sometime in the 1800s it relates to the fact of how a new era of treating mental illnesses became in effect in that time frame. For many centuries before people associated mental disorders with  witch craft or evil forces. So what you can assume about this novel is , it might have something to do with the treatment or realization of someone that might of had a mental disorder. 

extra information link :

http://sturtevant.com/alex/insane.htm

references : paragraph 2, 3 and the second to last paragraph