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Jekyll - Intro To Jekyll & Hyde
Jekyll - Intro To Jekyll & Hyde
VICTORIAN LONDON
Dracula
By: Bram
Stoker
Jekyll & Hyde sold
40,000 copies in 6
months
Conflict between
Jekyll and Hyde
reveals eras class
phobias
Story of double
personalities and
metamorphosis
(change)
appealed to
readers.
Frankenstein
By: Mary
Shelly
THE NOVELLA
MAIN THEMES
The Double
Identify/The
Double Self
The Beast in
Humankind
Criticism of
Science
Sexual Repression
DOPPELGANGER/
THE DOUBLE-SELF
CRITICISM OF SCIENCE
SEXUAL REPRESSION
In criticism and commentary, sexual desire is
repressed
This may account for the animal quality
present in Hyde
Story has many allusions to the repression of
desire (Example: locked doors, cabinets,
secrecy)
Stevenson shows what a mans life is like
without women = the man becomes a
monster
Noticeable absence of female characters in
the story, except for two servants and the
little girl who is knocked down by Hyde