Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Settings
- Weather
- Dark, gloomy, harsh, windy
- Weather reflects the atmosphere, turbelent
- London
- Seemed Isolated despite the fact
that it was the biggest area at the
time
- Themes
- Duality
- Good & Evil
- Public & Private
- Pleasure & Pain
- Addiction & Control
- Freedom &
Constraint
- Secrecy
- Truth/Lies
- Reputation
- By avoiding gossip and maintaining a
good outer front
- Blantatly ignoring whats
wrong to preserve peace
- Info
- Written by Robert Stevenson
- Born in Edinburgh, 1850. Died in Samoa,
3 Dec 1894 due to tuberculosis
- Son of a CIvil Engineer,
allowed to study law
(Often fought with his
dad)
- Published Januaruy 1886,
meant to be published
Christmas 1885 but withdrawn
- Written in 1885, Bournemouth, England
- Style
- Gothic Horror
- Mystery
- Tone
- Tone
- Mysterious and serious
- Past Tense
- Major Conflict
- "Jekyll attempts to keep his dark half,
Edward Hyde, under control and then to
prevent himself from becoming Hyde
permanently."
- Symbols
- Door
- Potion
- House
- Labratory
- Hyde's Appearance
- Letters
- Mirror
- Motifs
- Violence against Innocents
- Sir Carrew
- The girl who was trampled
- The match girl who was hit
- Silence
- The refusal to admit that
anything is wrong
- Urban Terror
- Monsters in the city
where people live
- Language
- Old English style
- Foreshadowing
- Mr.Utterson's nightmare
- Third person narrative
- Except for the last chapters which were
letters written in Lanyon's and Jekyll's
viewpoint
- Characters
- Utterson
- Plain, dry, good
friend. Traditional
- Lawyer who reads the
letters and discovers the
truth behind Jekyll/Hyde
- Jekyll
- Highly admired and liked, professional and
well off. Born into wealth, but had to hide his
flaws. A sense of honor
- Hyde
- Detested and hated by all who meet
him. Short small and violent with no
moral constraints
- Starts to take over the body, but commits
suicide to prevent being confronted/killed in
the gallows. Drinks a arsenic
- Lanyon
- Friendly but doesn't
believe in the
supernatural
- Dies after witnessing
Jekyll's transformation,
which goes against
everything he stood for