Robert Louis Stevenson by Francesca Liga https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde en-us 2019-02-12 14:33:29 UTC 2023-06-15 23:24:12 UTC hello@padlet.com The plot: francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330353153 The story is told from the point of view of Mr Utterson, a London lawyer and friend to the brilliant Dottor Jekyll, a man divided against himself into two distinct characters. The first is a respectable
being and the second, Hyde, is an evil genius. These two being are in constant struggle and once Hyde is release from hiding, he gets domination over the Jekyll aspect so that the individual can choose between:
a. A life of crime and depravity
b. Killing Hyde
So the final and only choice is suicide (Jekyll’s self-murder)]]> 2019-02-12 14:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330353153 Robert Louis Stevenson's life: francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330355266 Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850.
He spent his childhood in bed because of his poor health. He decide to devote himself to writing and he became popular as a novelist in the 1880 when he published "The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in wich hypocrisy is embodied by the double.
He died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.]]> 2019-02-12 14:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330355266 The double nature of the setting: francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330371687  •The novel is set in London but reflects Stevenson’s experience of Edinburgh.
•Both capitals, indeed, have a double nature and reflected the hypocrisy of Victorian’s
society.
LONDON:                                                                                                      EDINBURGH:
Had the respectable West End and                                    Had the New Town with its wide  the appalling poverty of the East End slums.                   squares, and the Old Town where                                                                                                    crime was a pressing problem.
]]> 2019-02-12 15:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330371687 francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330399283 2019-02-12 15:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330399283 Symbolism: francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330400505  •The two facades of Jekyll’s house are symbolically the faces of two opposite sides of the same man: the attractive front contrasts with the sinister rear used by Hyde.
•Most of the scenes take place at night. There’s no natural daylight but only the artificial
lighting of Jekyll’s house and the street lamps.
•There are no women, no wives and the only relationships between people are professional
ones. All men belong to the same respectable world (one is a lawyer and to are doctors).]]> 2019-02-12 16:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330400505 Good and evil: francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330409969 The novel is a portrayal of good and evil and its characters, Jekyll and Hyde, are the stereotypes of
people who are “good” and “evil”. Jekyll has spent a virtuous life, he is handsome, well-shaped
and his body is more harmoniously proportioned than Hyde’s. Hyde s pale and dwarfish, his hands
are dark and he gives the impression of deformity, but throughout the novel he begins to grow in
stature and the original balance of good and evil in Jekyll’s nature disappears.]]> 2019-02-12 16:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330409969 The narrative technique: francesca_liga49 https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330411903 The novel has a complex structure. There are four narrators:
1. Mr. Utterson, a lawyer whose clients include Mr. Jekyll.
2. Enfield, a distant relative of Utterson.
3. Lanyon, a friend and colleague of Jekyll, whose curiosity allows him to be tempted by
forbidden knowledge and in the end he dies, as Jekyll.
4. Jekyll himself, whose narrative and final confession takes up the best chapter.]]> 2019-02-12 16:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/francesca_liga49/zcbrfkmajnq6/wish/330411903