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Jekyll + Hyde - CONTEXT Flashcards

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What is Lombroso’s theory?

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  • a criminal mind was inherited
  • a criminal could be identified by physical features and defects
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Link Lombroso’s theory to two quotes:

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  • Hyde is “ape-like”
  • Utterson describes Hyde as “pale and dwarfish”
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What is a shilling shocker?

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  • sold in intervals
  • a chapter a week to keep up suspense
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What should the archetypal Victorian Gentleman be like?

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  • austere
  • never gossip
  • always have each other’s back
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Who is the archetypal Victorian Gentleman?

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  • Utterson- “somehow loveable”
  • Went on walks every Sunday with Enfield, after church to be seen as doing the correct thing- “Sunday walks”
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Where could Victorian Gentlemen go to do business?

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  • brothels
  • Gin palaces
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What health condition did Stevenson suffer from?

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tuberculosis

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What did Stevenson claim to write the novel about?

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his nightmares

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What did Stevenson’s father do?

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he was a civil engineer

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Where do we see the relationship between Stevenson and his father in the novel?

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‘Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference’.

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What religion was Stevenson’s nanny?

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  • Calvanist
  • there’s nothing any individual person can do during their mortal life to alter their eternal fate.
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What did many Victorians fear after hearing Darwin’s theory of evolution?

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  • That we would de-evolve
  • very scary time with new discoveries in science
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What was housing like in poorer Soho and how does this link to a theme?

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  • very very cramped
  • links to secrecy- there was none
  • “If he be Mr. Hyde… I shall be Mr. Seek”
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when was the novel written and published?

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1855

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where was the novel set?

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  • Victorian London
  • Industrial revolution
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where did Jekyll live?

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  • Cavendish Square
  • Harley street
  • Belgravia
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Where did Hyde live?

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  • Soho
  • extreme poverty
  • foreigners
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