transformation physique (prétexte à automythologie : creature / savage / hunt / brute / satan etc) : le médecin en Colomb de son propre corps : younger, slighter, bolder
J/H : +/-//-/+ : la polarité n'est pas pertinente (elle est réversible), c'est l'écart qui importe : une 'distance personnelle' figure de l'Evènement*/aletheia*/épiphanie* : Ext.
auto-mythologie : le récit de J |- réel/vrai/logomythie: le rapprochement.
naturellement, le rapprochement est subjectivement vécu (et conté) depuis J (et ses équivalents Utterson et Lanyon).
L'asymétrie se retrouve dans la 'victoire' de Hyde : mue faustienne de J.
He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's an extraordinary looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can't describe him. And it's not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment."
de-formity / extraordinary looking /can name nothing .. : in-défini, et pourtant I can see him this moment : réel/logos (autre twilight)
The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh; and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness, he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
extraordinary est extraordinaire ds le texte : 2 mentions seulement, dénotant Hyde uniquement.
on note, outre savage, quickness, répété dans la description de Poole, le majordome :
"But if you mean, was it Mr. Hyde?--why, yes, I think it was! You see, it was much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick, light way with it;
My reason wavered, but it did not fail me utterly. I have more than once observed that in my second character, my aculties seemed sharpened to a point and my spirits more tensely elastic; thus it came about that, where Jekyll perhaps might have succumbed, Hyde rose to the importance of the moment.
quickness, elasticity de l'esprit également donc (on peut supposer que Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., L.L.D.,F.R.S., etc n'est pas un esprit lent...), rose to the importance of the Moment / aletheia / Ereignis
force prodigieuse, malgré une petite taille : tout en muscle :
The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
But when I slept, or when the virtue of the medicine wore off, I would leap almost without transition (for the pangs of transformation grew daily less marked) into the possession of a fancy brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with causeless hatreds, and a body that seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life. The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll.
With Jekyll, it was a thing of vital instinct. He had now seen the full deformity of that creature that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness, and was co-heir with him to death: and beyond these links of community, which in themselves made the most poignant part of his distress, he thought of Hyde, for all his energy of life, as of something not only hellish but inorganic. This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.
la vie brute, pas juste brutish, péniblement reconnue par Jekyll : a body that seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life, dont Jekyll veut croire qu'il est inorganic, amorphous, bien que knit to him closer than a wife, struggling to be born, et deposing him à tout heure du jour et de la nuit.
I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
like a schoolboy < youth
spring headlong < quick
sea of liberty
Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes; and bade a resolute farewell to the liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in the disguise of Hyde.
liberty, youth, light step, leaping impulses
secret pleasures
And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times affected by the dangers that he runs through his brutish, physical insensibility;
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine. I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations; and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.
new + life : re/naissance. ré-juvénation : something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet, younger, lighter, happier in body, first breath, I stretched, freshness, sensations,
There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations. The night however, was far gone into the morning--the morning, black as it was, was nearly ripe for the conception of the day--the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I determined, flushed as I was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom.
baroque/gothique anglais, remontant au moins à Shakespeare : 'ripe for the conception of the day'.
contraste entre le silence baignant la demeure et la re/naissance de Hyde.
I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
the constellations looked down upon me with wonder : CF Macbeth
stole / quick
stranger : re-né
The creature who crept into my house that night was, on Jekyll's own confession, known by the name of Hyde and hunted for in every corner of the land as the murderer of Carew.
l'animal traqué
De même Lanyon, l'éternel rival :
I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer.
Voilà Utterson, bachelor mort-vivant :
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable
qui s'éveille lui aussi au contact de la (transformation de) la bête : surprise : vie
He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change--he seemed to swell--his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter--and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror.
la transformation r/éveille le lawyer.
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Hyde né 2 fois : https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/25/books.booksnews