How often do we see people try to run away or squeak out of of their problems? They try to take short cuts or just run and hide from the problem all together. The fact of the matter is, the longer we choose to run and hide from our problems, the worse they become and with time, they always end up catching up to us so in the end, it is best for us to face our problems at the root of them and do whatever we can to fix them right away.
Both novels present perfect examples of this lesson in life. When Victor created his monster, he knew he had created a creature that was potentially dangerous to a lot of innocent people, what he should have done was contact the authorities and notify them of the monster but instead he chose to keep running and hiding. As time went on the problem grew worse, people's lives were lost including Victors own brother William.
In the case of Jekyll and Hyde we see Dr Jekyll run from his problems as well. He is presented with multiple opportunities to try and seek help to fix what he had done to himself. Once again Dr Jekyll chose not to tell anyone and the problem got worse, to the point were Dr Jekyll lost control of his other identity and Mr. Hyde took over and murdered innocent people just as he had already done before.
The lesson to be learnt here is that what they say is true, you can run but you cant hide, eventually our problems will catch up to us if we keep running from them and when they do, they come back ten-full.
Reading your article made me think of the paper I am currently writing on Responsibility.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are tend to run away from our problems, and yes, it makes it worse, but if we I had took our responsibility and faced the problem from the beginning, maybe we would have put an end to it.
If Dr. Jekyll had accepted his wicked thoughts like everyone else, and not tried to separate himself to escape his social responsibilities, now he wouldn't be in this whole mess.
Same goes for Victor, who had refused to take care of his creature, and ran away from it, leaving the monster alone in this cruel world.
I think we are running away from the problems encountered but also from the responsibility linked to the problem.
This blog really does make you think about how serious avoiding a problem can be, no matter how distasteful it seems to face it. Really well written, and the links between the two books are solid as well.
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