Context Flashcards
Written?
1886
Classified as
Shilling shocker
Lower and upper class
Lower-class people came to London for work. Upper-class people didn’t like this- created areas where they would go and not go- divisions in city
Also classified as
Allegory- story with hidden meaning
Science and medicine
Changed a lot at the time book written. Fear of Victorian age- discovering something shocking or creating something monstrous that would overpower us
John Hunter
Conducted bizarre experiments like putting a human tooth on a chicken head- shocked public- results shared in secret.
Psychoanalysis
Stevenson read many books on the field of psychoanalysis and dream analysis
Sigmund Freud- Father of psychoanalysis
Created Id, ego and superego. Conscious self covers up ideas and wishes of subconscious self
Religion
Text is rife with biblical allusion. At time majority of population was religious.