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Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde . Notes . Setting: . -   Darkness and light (including street lighting) -   Dirt and dust -   Fog -   Housing – contrast of different areas -   Cupboards, closets, cabinets- things shut away. Structure and Narration: . - 3 rd Person Narrative

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Jekyll and Hyde

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  1. Jekyll and Hyde Notes

  2. Setting: • -   Darkness and light (including street lighting) • -   Dirt and dust • -   Fog • -   Housing – contrast of different areas • -   Cupboards, closets, cabinets- things shut away

  3. Structure and Narration: • - 3rd Person Narrative • -   seen mostly from the perspective of Utterson (characterisation) • -   Maud’s story of the Carew murder (Hyde’s second crime)

  4. Structure and Narration: • - 1st Person Narration: • -   Enfield’s story (Hyde’s first crime) • -   Jekyll’s letters • -   Lanyon’s story • -   Jekyll’s statement

  5. Structure and Narration: • - Framing: everything is at one remove: • -   seen through the eyes of others • -   told in letters or statements • -   seen only in part • seen through a window (Utterson talks to Jekyll through a window) (Imagery)

  6. Structure and Narration: • - Draws us in further and further: even if we already know or have guessed who Hyde is, we want to find out: how, why and what it felt like. • - Structured and written like a Report (cf Language)

  7. Characterisation: • Utterson • -   of unimpeachable probity • -   totally reliable • -   has led a very sheltered life • -   probably very dull – even boring (cf after J’s party) • Lanyon • Jekyll • Hyde • The relationship of Jekyll to Hyde

  8. Imagery and Language: • -   Wine • -   hearth fires • -   animals • -   cupboards, closets, cabinets • -   windows • -   dirt, dust • -   fog • -   formal language • -   detailed language

  9. Theme, Message and Relevance: • -   Jekyll well respected and the evil Hyde • -   Jekyll though it been a very pure powder, but it had been contaminated: the unknown impurity lent efficacy • -   Front of J’s house very respectable, but back is on dingy street (setting) • -   Framing – who and what do we believe – difficulty of knowing the truth

  10. Theme, Message and Relevance: • -   Criminals who were well respected (eg Shipman, Soham murderer) • -   Political systems that claimed to be good but produced evil (Nazism, Communism, Inquisition, Prohibition (USA))

  11. Theme, Message and Relevance: • The nature of personality: • -   Personality changes caused by illness, injury, trauma, stress, alcohol, drugs • -   Multiple personality • -   Brain research (cf Jekyll: “a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens”)

  12. Theme, Message and Relevance: • 3.The nature of evil: • - our propensity to evil (cf Crime and Punishment ) • -   dualism • -   Is pure evil more powerful than our normal mix of good and bad? • Torturers (cf Psychological experiments)

  13. Theme, Message and Relevance: • 4. The risks of scientific experiment: • -   nuclear technology • -   genetic modification • -   cloning (cf Frankenstein )

  14. Antecedents: • Historical: • -   Deacon Brodie • -   Dr Knox and the body snatchers, Burke and Hare (Stevenson wrote a short story based on this also The Bodysnatchers) • Literary: • -   Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) • -   Confessions of a Justified Sinner (James Hogg) • -   Tales of Hoffman • -   Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe) • Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoievsky)

  15. Genre links: • The Gothic – esp Frankenstein (pre); Dracula (post) • -   Crime ficion – Edgar Allan Poe (pre); Sherlock Holmes (post); stories about Jack the Ripper (post); modern psychological crime fiction (eg Val McDermid) • -   Horror • -   Psychological fiction: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (pre); • -   Multiple Narratives: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (pre); Dracula (post);

  16. Higher Essay Questions: • development or deterioration of a character: Jekyll and Hyde • contrast between characters: Jekyll and Utterson • key scene • the importance of setting: buildings/fog/light/rooms to eg appearance and reality • narration: different narrators, framing, characterisation of Utterson, language • imagery • theme, message or relevance

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