Jekyll and Hyde
- Created by: Hannah Shanks-Boon
- Created on: 16-02-18 11:39
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- Jekyll and Hyde
- Themes
- Duality
- Science vs Religion
- "play-God"
- Darwinism
- Rational vs Experimental Science
- Lanyon vs Jekyll
- Appearance vs reality
- Secrecy
- Stevenson uses locked doors as symbols
- The potion ingredients are locked away in a drawer
- Rational vs Experimental Science
- Lanyon vs Jekyll
- Rational vs Experimental Science
- Jekyll shuts the window on Utterson and Enfield when he feels the change happening
- The potion ingredients are locked away in a drawer
- Stevenson uses locked doors as symbols
- Reputation
- Secrecy
- Good vs Evil
- "man is not truly one but truly two"
- Science vs Religion
- Duality
- Character
- Dr Jekyll
- ambitious
- "an honourable and distinguished future"
- Respectable gentleman
- "well-known and highly considered"
- Desperate
- "risked death"
- ambitious
- Dr Lanyon
- Affable
- "welcomed him with both hands"
- Sociable
- Respected
- Rational Science
- refers to Jekyll's work as "unscientific balderdash"
- Conventional
- "Jekyll became too fanciful for me"
- His death represents the death of rational science
- " have had a shock and I shall never recover"
- Affable
- Enfield
- Victorian gentlemen values
- Reputation is important
- Victorian gentlemen values
- "ashamed" of his "long tongue"
- Witnessed the crime of Hyde trampling the girl
- Dr Jekyll
- Context
- Published in 1886
- Victorian era
- The Victorian gentleman
- Respectable
- trustworthy
- Industrial Revolution
- Smog- pathetic fallacy
- SCIENCE
- Darwin
- Pharmacology
- Psycology
- Graphology
- Physiognomy
- Gothic Fiction
- Fascination with deformity and supernatural
- Circuses
- Fascination with deformity and supernatural
- Drug addiction
- Madness
- Published in 1886
- Themes
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