Snaith// Jekyll and Hyde Social Context
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- Created on: 20-01-18 17:35
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- Crime and the Ripper
- No DNA to get caught
- Irrational VS Supernatural.Duality of human nature idea that we all have a dual nature, rational side and dark side with sexual fantasy
- Jack Ripper killed prostitutes.
- Social Inequalities
- Slums are growing, infant death was 50%, due to industrial revolution.
- Fathers rule family, women are expected to be frail
- Women were unwelcomed in the medical world. Victoria Nightingale were given a nurse job.
- Social Context
- The Supernatural
- Everyone has evil and good inside of them
- Duality of human nature
- Irrational VS Supernatural
- Appearance/ Reality
- Good manners
- Jekyll, is keen to be an "animal", people feared of what they don't know, including sexuality. Indeed, Society's repression of it's darker side, increased fascination
- Poverty was considered a crime and penalised.
- Medicine and Science
- Break through in scientific discovery
- Power of pray, regularly
- Due to industrial revolution, many died because infection spread
- Believed places in body had 'bad blood' and was gotten rid of by leeches, arsenic and laxatives.
- Maverick scientist push laws of cholera rates very high nature.
- Creation
- Charles Darwin- Evolution, difficult for people to see alongside the beginning in the Bible.
- Jekyll wanted to test humanity, but religious people refused as they thought it was immoral
- The Supernatural
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