Article Sidebar

Untitled
Date Published: 30/11/2023
Online Published: 30/11/2023
Abstract Views: 157
Views Untitled: 64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.20.11.3963(2023)
Issue
Vol. 20 No. 11 (2023)
Section
Articles
How to Cite
Phạm , T. B. N. (2023). CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF MORALITY IN THE NOVELLA STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE. HCMUE Journal of Science, 20(11), 2000. https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.20.11.3963(2023)

CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF MORALITY IN THE NOVELLA STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

Thái Bảo Ngọc Phạm

Main Article Content

Abstract

In accordance with cognitive linguistics, most literary metaphors stem from conceptual metaphors which are pervasive in daily thoughts and language. This article analyses conceptual metaphors of morality and their metaphorical expressions in the novella “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” The research results show that the complex metaphor MORALITY IS STRENGTH, including several primary metaphors such as DOING GOOD IS UPRIGHT, DOING EVIL IS FALLING, BEING MORAL IS BEING HIGH, BEING IMMORAL IS BEING LOW, EVIL IS A FORCE and INNER STRENGTH IS PHYSICAL STRENGTH, was extensively and diversely used throughout the novella to describe characters and depict the struggle between good and evil. These metaphors are intimately interconnected, enhancing the coherence of numerous metaphorical expressions throughout the novella and further reinforcing its central theme.

 

 

Keywords

conceptual metaphor, good and evil, morality, MORALITY IS STRENGTH

Article Details

Author Biography

Thái Bảo Ngọc Phạm,

Giảng viên Khoa Ngữ văn Anh

Nghiên cứu sinh ngành Ngôn ngữ học so sánh đối chiếu, Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn, ĐHQG-TP.HCM

References

Cooper, N. (1966). Two Concepts of Morality. Philosophy, 41(155), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100066122
Dimitrova, D. (2016). Conceptual metaphor in an English and Bulgarian version of The Tale of the Kind and the Unkind Girls. Balkanistica, 29, 17-60.
Evans, V. (2007). A glossary of Cognitive Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Ganz, M. J. (2015). Carrying On Like a Madman: Insanity and Responsibility in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 70(3), 363-397.
Gert, B., & Gert, J. (2002). The definition of morality. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.) (2020). The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/morality-definition/
Kovecses, Z. (2010). Metaphor: A practical introduction (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 2002)
Krarup, I. M. T. (2022). Hyde the Sinful: Religion and Abjection in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English, (8), 45-51. https://doi.org/10.7146/lev82022132071
Lakoff, G. (1993). The contemporary theory of metaphor. In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and thought (2nd ed.) (202-251). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1979)
Lakoff, G. (2002). Moral politics: How Liberals and Conservatives think (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1996)
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. New York: Basic Books.
Luco, A. (2014). The Definition of Morality. Social Theory and Practice, 40(3), 361-387. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201440324
Pragglejaz Group (2007). MIP: A Method for Identifying Metaphorically Used Words in Discourse. Metaphor and Symbol, 22(1), 1-39.
Singh, S. M., & Chakrabarti, S. (2008). A study in dualism: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Indian Journal of psychiatry, 50(3), 221-223.
Steen, G. (2011). From three dimensions to five steps: The value of deliberate metaphor. Metaphorik.de, 21, 83-110. http://www.metaphorik.de/21/steen.pdf
Stevenson, R. L. (1886). Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longman, Green & Co.
Veenstra, R. (2006). The development of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Prosocial and antisocial behavior in adolescence. In Solidarity and prosocial behavior: An integration of sociological and psychological perspectives (pp. 93-108). Boston, MA: Springer.
Werth, P. (1994). Extended metaphor: A text world account. Language and Literature, 3(2), 79-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/096394709400300201
Wong, D. (2019). Definition of Morality. In H. LaFollette, et al. (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (pp.1-9). Wiley-Blackwell.
Yu, N. (2015). Metaphorical character of moral cognition: a comparative and decompositional analysis. Metaphor and Symbol, 30(3), 163-183.
Yu, N. (2016). Spatial Metaphors for Morality: A Perspective from Chinese. Metaphor and Symbol, 31(2), 108-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2016.1150763
Yu, N. (2022). The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zhuang, P., & Qi, W. (2021). On metaphor of diseases in the classical Chinese novel Liaozhai Zhiyi. Neohelicon, 48, 457-463. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-021-00609-7