Local Jacobean Prince™️

I think what Hyde means by prison here is multiple things that count as one.

Jekyll.

And that makes sense

Hyde is like an escape to Jekyll, and as we know Jekyll has been stressed out lately, the lodgers are turning against him and everything he’s worked for his falling apart. It’s a prison. And Hyde especially sees it as that. Jekyll does too but can’t exactly word it or explain the feeling as Hyde does.

Hyde doesn’t want to go back to the life of Jekyll, and in a way, Jekyll himself doesn’t.

Hyde and Jekyll do share thought chains, we see it with Blackfog. We know Jekyll wanted to go but is bound by society, we see Hyde wanted to go and wasn’t bound, he did everything so he COULD go.

It’s also interesting how Hyde is arguing with himself, acting as both rational and irrational thinking - because Jekyll isn’t there. There’s no one he can trust. He’s paranoid, immensely so. And he’s starting to crack, and unlike Jekyll he cant hide it, he’s impulsive by nature.

Like, so much of modern capitalist marketing is the construction of these superficially personal narratives. Giving the sense, not only that the brand fits in with your identity, but that it is almost a sentient individual itself that has a personal relationship with you. Corporations have personalities. They want to be your friend, and the reason that the entire internet economy runs on the currency of data right now is that the only way to prop up the illusion that they care about you is by already having the information about you that real people would gain by paying attention

But the only way they can collect and sort all that data is with computers, without any actual humans involved past setting up the parameters and pressing “go.” And computers are fucking idiots.