Jekyll and Hyde Context
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- Created on: 25-04-19 17:38
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- Jekyll & Hyde Context
- Victorian England
- London, where this novel is based, was filled with poverty and homelessness
- This novel presents an image of wealthy, professional people living in london. These people either condemn or ignore the poverty
- The transformation of Jekyll into Hyde showed the underbelly of city life in England.
- It is also made clear that issues such as drug abuse and prostitution exist because Jekyll spends his money on these things
- Victorian Values
- The people at this time had a strict code of moral and social conduct. Their reputation meant everything to them
- Many middle class and upper class victorians lived their lives by a set of values, some were happy to do so but some had to repress the desire to not to
- Dr.Jekyll is used by Stevenson to show that not all victorians lived like this and for many it was just a surface appearance to hide their moral behaviour
- Science & Evolution
- In the 19th century science saw many changes. Stevenson draws on this to make Jekyll's transformation into Hyde seem more realistic
- Stevenson references darwins theory of evolution when describing Jekyll and Hyde
- Gothic Horror
- This novel was a modern version of the gothic genre.
- The novels describes strange events in a contemporary setting therefore making it a gothic horror
- Victorian England
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