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Title: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde


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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • By
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

2
Robert Louis Stevenson All human beings are
commingled out of good and evil.
  • Born 1850 in Edinburgh of Thomas Stevenson, an
    engineer who build many of our deep-sea
    lighthouses and Isabella Mary Balfour, whose
    family contained members of the legal profession
    and ministers of the Church.
  • Brought up to conform to the strict Victorian
    Middle Class code of respectability
  • Childhood illnesses meant most of his early years
    were spent in his bedroom at home where Nurse
    Cunningham (Cummy) laboured to teach him the
    difference between pursuing a life of good or
    evil by describing at great lengths the
    everlasting torments of hell resulting from
    selecting the evil choice unsurprisingly Robert
    suffered terrible nightmares.
  • Nurse Cunningham tried to convince him there are
    but two camps in the world one perfectly pious
    and respectable, one of the perfectly profane,
    mundane and vicious. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    refutes this simplistic view and argues that
    there is light and dark in all of us man is
    not truly one but truly two (Jekyll)

3
Life Imitates Art?
  • Stevenson grew up in Edinburgh, a city with two
    faces, and although Dr Jekyll appears to be set
    in London, there are many reasons Edinburgh could
    also be viewed as an appropriate setting.
  • At seventeen, whilst studying Engineering at
    University, Robert would spend a great deal of
    time in Edinburghs notorious Old Town and it has
    been argued that he, like Jekyll, was leading a
    double life respectable middle class student by
    day and debauchery by night. However, Stevenson
    witnessed enough middle class double standards
    that he was determined to avoid such hypocrisy
    and he reacted against the strict Scottish
    Presbyterian background of his upbringing.

4
Other famous publications
  • A Childs Garden of Verse dedicated to Nurse
    Cummy
  • The Master of Ballantrae
  • Kidnapped
  • Treasure Island
  • Catriona
  • Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life - play

5
Victorian Edinburgh
  • Old Town
  • Dirty
  • Disease ridden
  • Overcrowded
  • Full of Poverty
  • New Town
  • Prosperous
  • Middle class
  • Clean
  • Ordered

6
A city with a past
  • William Deacon Brodie well respected
    craftsman by day, criminal by night hanged in
    1788. In his childhood bedroom, Robert Louis had
    a cabinet made by William Brodie
  • Burke and Hare, the body snatchers

7
Timeline of Significant Events
  • 18th century Age of Enlightenment freedom,
    democracy and reason
  • 1818 Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
  • 1824 James Hoggs Confessions of a Justified
    Sinner
  • 1850 RLS born in Edinburgh
  • 1859 Darwins On the Origin of Species
  • 1872 RLS quarrels seriously with father over
    religion and morals
  • 1884 RLS publishes short story The Body
    Snatcher
  • 1885 French neurologist gives public display of
    hypnotism
  • 1885 RLS writes Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • 1886 Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia Sexualis, RLS
    publishes Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • 1888 Jack the Ripper murders take place in the
    East End
  • 1891 Oscar Wildes Dorian Gray
  • 1901 Freuds Interpretation of Dreams

8
Echoes through the Ages
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