![]() ![]() ![]() The show's first season was largely based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, the first of his Dexter novels. ![]() Dexter is just one of the TV series that has enjoyed wide critical acclaim and popularity. Today crime is the central point of an extensive production of books, films and TV series. Key Words: presentation of self, roles, masks, Erving Goffman, Dexter, Jekyll, Hyde. I will examine the similarities and differences of these two characters in their fight for survival in society. Those who follow the minimum social requirements properly, like Dexter, survive however, those who do not hide their malign urges against society, like Jekyll, are destroyed. Most readers or viewers can identify themselves with these characters, since in daily life we wear masks to perform roles in the social order, enabling us to confront the conventions of our societies and to hide personal attributes we do not want to expose, such as in the cases of Dexter and Jekyll. They present themselves to society as “normal” by hiding their real identities behind a social mask, which leads us to the question their morality. ![]() Dexter Morgan and Henry Jekyll are fictional characters marked by split personalities. HYDE This thesis aims to analyze and explain and compare the presentation of self in the works of Jeff Lindsay’s Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER AND THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. ![]()
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