Context
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- Created on: 26-03-17 11:22
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- Context
- Stevenson
- Born in Edinburgh
- Old town (immoral) and new town ( upper class society
- Intrested in Deacon Brodie
- Deacon Brodie cabinet maker and town councilor in day. Robber by night to fund gambling addiction
- Dreamed the story of Jekyll and Hyde
- Studied engineering to please his father however didnt enjoy it
- Could be seen as leading a double life as father didn't know he didn't enjoy it.
- Intrested in the double life of prostitutes
- Born in Edinburgh
- Victorian era
- Mental asylums
- Sent for very small things such as being hysterical.
- Darwinism. Man kind started with apes
- Science vs Religion
- Repressed after messy divorce with Albert's parents
- Mental asylums
- John Hunter
- Surgeon "knife man" disected legally on criminals who'd been executed
- Bodies would be sent to his front door and would cause a stir as respectable man
- Bought house behind his and knocked down connecting walls and front hime, rear science lab
- Edingburgh
- Smog filled
- Burke and Hare, made living digging up dead bodies and selling them to surgeans
- Made so much would kill people and bring them to surgeons houses.
- Stevenson new this story as wrote a story about it "the body snatchers"
- Made so much would kill people and bring them to surgeons houses.
- Stevenson
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