Context Flashcards
What was the Victorian attraction to violence?
Voyeuristic attraction
What is existentiallism?
We gain our morals by living and not through our nature
What does the second tenet state in existentiallism?
Existence precedes essence
Why did Stevenson create Hyde?
To challenge prejucide due to social class (classism)
Where did Stevenson move to?
Pagan Somoa
Why was the ‘storm of blows’ provocative to the Victorian reader?
It was gratiuitous
What is the Juggernath
Hindu reincarnation ritual
Why did Hyde attack Carew?
He was homosexual
What made being homosexual illegal?
Criminal Law Ammendment Act banned ‘gross indeceny
When was being homosexual made illegal?
1885
What were Hyde’s actions to Carew?
The epitome of Victorian regulations
Who taught Stevenson presbyterian Christianity?
Nanny Alison Cunningham
What does the novella serve as a question of?
Realism of God
What book my Darwin influenced Stevenson?
‘The descendant of man’
What was the novella a diatribe to?
Moral code
