Conext Flashcards

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What was Victorian london like

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.dichotomy (split between rich and poor)
.large population (many babies being born)
.fog - adds to mysterious setting (gothic)
.popular in fiction so familiar to readers
.Scotland Yard had just been founded - investigating was very popular
.Industrial Revolution

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Gothic fiction

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.setting used to show emotion
.use of night time
.fear
.good and evil
.popular in 18th century
.weather
.the uncanny
.darkness
.violence
.horror
.city like a maze
.monstrous description of Hyde
.supernatural
.the double
.death

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Lombrosos theory of ativism

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Physical characteristics represent your personality
.Hyde is ugly and unattractive so has a bad personality and is criminal

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Repressed desires

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.the more you repress them, the more violent te final outburst
.danger
.comes back more powerful

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Where was Stevenson born?

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Edinburgh

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When was the book published?

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1866

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