Jekyll and Hyde- context
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- Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde context
- Class
- Medical discoveries
- Science and medicine were also changing quickly at this time in history. Famous surgeons were experimenting and dissecting bodies to learn all they could about the human anatomy.
- The first transplants were carried out around this time. The notion of the "mad scientist" shocked the public and many of the experiments were carried out in private and their results shared among respected members of the profession in private houses in Britain.
- These themes are also carried through Jekyll and Hyde where we see Dr Jekyll in his London home with his labs and powders locked away with his research. He begins to experiment with himself and soon, he gets into a situation he cant handle.
- This was a common fear of the Victorian age- of discovering something shocking or creating something monstrous (Frankenstein)that could overpower us and destroy us.
- Stevenson is addressing these concerns but instead of it being a creation, the monster comes from within. It already exists. All that is required is some medical marvel to destroy its better half
- This was a common fear of the Victorian age- of discovering something shocking or creating something monstrous (Frankenstein)that could overpower us and destroy us.
- These themes are also carried through Jekyll and Hyde where we see Dr Jekyll in his London home with his labs and powders locked away with his research. He begins to experiment with himself and soon, he gets into a situation he cant handle.
- The first transplants were carried out around this time. The notion of the "mad scientist" shocked the public and many of the experiments were carried out in private and their results shared among respected members of the profession in private houses in Britain.
- Science and medicine were also changing quickly at this time in history. Famous surgeons were experimenting and dissecting bodies to learn all they could about the human anatomy.
- The development of psychoanalysis
- Stevenson,according to his wife, read many reports of the growing field of psychoanalysis and dream analysis.
- Jekyll and Hyde is a book of its time. It was a time when medicine was about to unveil the inner mysteries of the human anatomy, when psychoanalysis was about to unveil the inner mysteries of the human mind.
- This was a time of class and political tensions that threatened cosy consensus for upper class.
- The Victorians were not ready for these changes, it emerges to shock, fascinate and hold a mirror up to readers
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