Jekyll + Hyde - CONTEXT Flashcards
What is Lombroso’s theory?
- a criminal mind was inherited
- a criminal could be identified by physical features and defects
Link Lombroso’s theory to two quotes:
- Hyde is “ape-like”
- Utterson describes Hyde as “pale and dwarfish”
What is a shilling shocker?
- sold in intervals
- a chapter a week to keep up suspense
What should the archetypal Victorian Gentleman be like?
- austere
- never gossip
- always have each other’s back
Who is the archetypal Victorian Gentleman?
- Utterson- “somehow loveable”
- Went on walks every Sunday with Enfield, after church to be seen as doing the correct thing- “Sunday walks”
Where could Victorian Gentlemen go to do business?
- brothels
- Gin palaces
What health condition did Stevenson suffer from?
tuberculosis
What did Stevenson claim to write the novel about?
his nightmares
What did Stevenson’s father do?
he was a civil engineer
Where do we see the relationship between Stevenson and his father in the novel?
‘Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference’.
What religion was Stevenson’s nanny?
- Calvanist
- there’s nothing any individual person can do during their mortal life to alter their eternal fate.
What did many Victorians fear after hearing Darwin’s theory of evolution?
- That we would de-evolve
- very scary time with new discoveries in science
What was housing like in poorer Soho and how does this link to a theme?
- very very cramped
- links to secrecy- there was none
- “If he be Mr. Hyde… I shall be Mr. Seek”
when was the novel written and published?
1855
where was the novel set?
- Victorian London
- Industrial revolution
