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Romeo And Juliet Duality Essay

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“In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will” ( II iii 28) This quote from the well known play Romeo and Juliet describes how some plants hold good and bad within them, so too as men do. As an example, a rose looks quite pretty to the eye, but its thorns are sharp, like men have good and evil sides. A quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde best explains duality within humanity; “I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.” That being said, the vast concept of duality continues to precede through every part of humanity ever since the beginning …show more content…

Duality commonly is explained as complete opposites. For example, good and evil, happy and depressed, hot and cold and so on. It’s a concept visible everywhere if you look for it. From Memories, Dreams, Reflections, “I therefore sought the peace and solitude of this "Other," personality No. 2.” Author Carl Jung explains in his book how he subconsciously had two personalities. Although one wasn't evil, when you look at people, you notice many are what society would consider ‘bad’. From author Wayne Baker, “Dualistic thinking in moral culture may be adaptive because it provides a quick way to assess complex and ambiguous moral situation.” Well, people sought to do whatever they desire, and since most are wrong, others punish them for it. From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; “She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were …show more content…

Many of these problems exist in our own head as a mental disorder. One best known is DID, Dissociative Personality Disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DID consists of the “presence of two or more distinct personality states.” The personalities a man could be affected with may be quite brash and unpleasant, while another could be as nice as a grandmother with cookies. Although the man has these personas, he can’t control which is shown and which

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Though we only got a brief glimpse at the upper world before the story descends into the lower world. Another example of duality, the birth of the twins caused the woman’s death. Once in the darkness the twins divided in opinion. As the twins grew one was insolent and one was gentle. Enigorio craved light.

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The short story,¨The Lottery,¨ by shirley Jackson shows the theme of duality of human nature. One character who showed duality was Tessie because when the lottery first started she was going along with everything but when her family got called she changed her whole dynamic. She is now saying that the lottery is not fair since her husband was the one who pulled the paper with the dot on it, but if it was someone else she wouldn't be saying that. She was only speaking up about it not being fair because her life depended on it. Although she was a good example of duality, all of the woman showed duality of human nature.

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Duality is a prominent theme throughout various pieces of literature. Many plays and novels portray the theme of duality in their work, such as: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Duality is presented throughout these pieces of literature especially in the form of good versus evil, love and hate, etc. The main use of duality in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is the never ending cycle of good and evil. Not only is Dr. Jekyll good, but his “alter ego” is unbelievably malevolent.

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The idea of duality, or “twoness” of the consciousness, was a concept coined by W.E.B. DuBois in the Harlem Renaissance. According to the DuBois, the term is used to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets, but can also be used to describe the psycho-social divisions in America at this time. “All these things set her aside from Negroes.. Janie’s coffee-and-cream complexion and her luxurious hair made Mrs. Turner forgive her for wearing overalls like the other women who worked in the fields” (page 140). Janie is multi racial, half Black and half White.

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In Robert Stevenson’s book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde duality is a reoccurring theme. Stevenson shows his duality through the plot, setting, and character’s dialogue throughout the novel. William Shakespeare shares the theme of duality in his play Romeo and Juliet. The duality of society and the duality of good and evil are a couple of the dualities revealed. Robert Stevenson’s

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The antiquated Greeks recognized significantly the spirit and the body as the proclamation expresses: "The body is a tomb. " Evil thusly was an aftereffect of an interminable soul caught in a limited body. Plato for example was unequivocally dualistic in that he communicated the view that the spirit exists autonomously of the body. The sound soul is an otherworldly substance unmistakable from the body inside which it stays, much like the chariot and a charioteer. Dualism filled an awesome need in the European Renaissance when Descartes portrayed the psyche only as a substance that considers a matter only as a broadened substance.

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Robert L. Stevenson might have experience the duality in humans himself or he might have notice the duality in other people like his friends or his family. When the other side of them controls them I think that they will just go crazy and that's how some people got to a mental hospital or they will just have a mental breakdown. Which is sad to watch someone go through

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Rene Descartes’ philosophies on dualism is one that still to this day philosophers ponder about, and have not fully answered all of the questions that have stemmed from the famous theory. The major thought behind his philosophy was that after God there are two natures known as extension and thought. According to the text “On one hand is material substance, whose sential attribute is extension (occupancy of space), and on the other hand is mind whose essential attribute is thought.” (Moore, Bruder, 99) Essentially what Descartes was saying was that while the mind and the body are both two separate entities, they work as one from time to time.

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Duality is an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something. The author, Charles Dickens, uses duality throughout the fictional novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to bring characters who would be thought of as polar opposites together. Dickens begins the novel by says, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"(3). The author begins the book with the quote to show the duality straight away because best and worst are opposite of eachother. Such as when the discovery of the main characters in England and France are all somehow tied together.

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The term ‘dualism’ has a variety of uses if we see the previous literature. In common sense, the notion is that, for any particular area of interest, there are two commonly different classes of things. In theory, for example a ‘dualist’ is one who believes that Good and Evil-or God and the Devil-are independent and more or less equal forces in the world. Dualism compare with monism, which is the theory that there is only one significant type, category of thing and rather less commonly, with pluralism, which is commonly referred to as many categories. In the philosophy of mind, dualism is the theory that the mind and body are, in some sense, totally different types of thing.

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