Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
{{Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde}}
Basic Info
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Year: 1886
- Type: #primary1
Summary (brief)
-The architectural layout of Jekyll's house is a literal map of his fractured psyche. Clean respectable front door faces a prosperous square (bourgeois ego) while the neglected, blistered back door, through which Hyde enters and exists, opens onto a dark, labyrinth alleyway. The house is a monster
Major Themes
- #monsterhouse
- #duality
- #monstrous-landscape
- #monstrous-masculine
- #interiority
- #gothic
- #craft/body/fragmentation
- #trans-corporeality
Key Passages / Quotes
Quote 1
quote:: “If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable”
page:: 69
themes:: duality, interiority, monstrosity, monsterhouse
Genre Notes
-Urban gothic template; London as double-sided, dark metropolis where respectable guys cross borders to indulge in unspeakable horrors;
Characters / Concepts (if relevant)
Theory Connections
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My Argument / Interpretation
-Why do men think they can just like mess with nature? Men messing with nature is just like men's desire to control women.
Dissertation Relevance
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