jekyll and hyde context

Question 1

Darwinism

Answer 1

Darwin believed that we evolved from apes and primitive forms. Jekyll’s transformation into the ape-like Hyde shows inherent primitive and troglodytic nature

Question 2

Calvinism

Answer 2

a person who has sinned was predestined to sin, no matter what a person does they will go to heaven or hell based on that determination

Question 3

Victorian gentlemen

Answer 3

homosocial society meant that victorian gentlemen would try to protect each other’s reputations

Question 4

architecture

Answer 4

buildings often used as facades to hide duality

Question 5

location

Answer 5

Cavendish square represents wealth and respect whereas soho contrasts this as it was associated with crime and immoral living

Question 6

lombroso’s theory

Answer 6

criminality is inherited and a born criminal could be identified by deformities, therefore Hyde’s criminality could clearly be distinguished by his deformities

Question 7

atavism

Answer 7

if all humans evolved from other forms, we could return to the basic state and succumb to primitive tendencies

Question 8

victorian stereotypes of women