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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Summary
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Background Horror story
Supernatural (cannot be explained by normal world)
Normal society ideas for the time
Took worries and concerns a bit futher
Keen to experiment with new ideas
New theories
Many felt threatened-choose between logic an faith(religion)
Warning about humans playing god
Might think we are powerful but don’t understand our actions
Victorian English has two sides
Surface
– scientific medical technological medicine improved new discoveries
Excepted successful people to be good people – they are repressed not allowed to do what they
want –hide feelings and desires – unhappy like Dr. Jekyll
Economic improvement
People moved from rural areas
Cities have better salaries
Still lived in terrible conditions
Cities were dangerous
Social advancements
Child labour illegal
If you had nothing you had no right – people looked down on your – had no rights
Rich people can do immoral things as long as it is not in public.
Reputation was everything
Most people were Christian
Sin an punishment were very serious
Strict judgemental place to live
Dr Jekyll wants to behave badly without feeling guilty
Illegal side
Dr Jekyll lived well because he was educated and protected by health
Tiny elite-huge amount of pour
Places like Theatres shebeens and brothels
Poor and desperate people
Tension between elite and poor
Elite worried that majority would take over
Wealthy men moves between these two sides
Day-good people
Night- dark side,do bad things and get away with it
, Setting
Victorian London (Victoria was queen)
Late 1800’s
Robert louis Stevenson was Scottish (never felt he belong)
Fascinated by urban underworld
Day time
- London
- Pleasant
- Good weather
- Lovely parks
- Strict social order
- Elite are at top
- Working class bottom
- Well-kept
- Bustling centre of commerce
- Rich respectable and middle class go about their lives
- Light linked good
Night time
- Foggy
- Dreary
- Nightmarish place
- Area of Soho (mister Hyde has room there)
- Muddy
- Dark
- Filled with robbers ,drunks and sex workers
- Go there for entertainment
- Pay to commit sexual, violent acts
- Mr Hyde likes to be out at night
- Wants to be bad
- Darkness linked with bad like secrecy and wrong
Just as Jekyll we have both a positive and negative side so does the city and society
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