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1 min. di lettura
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Concetti Chiave

  • The setting of the story reflects the duality of London, with Jekyll's house symbolizing the contrast between respectability and hidden darkness.
  • The narrative employs a multi-narration structure with four narrators, creating suspense through varied perspectives.
  • The novel blends genres, combining Gothic, detective, and science fiction elements to enrich the storytelling.
  • The characters are all respectable professional men, highlighting the absence of women in the narrative.
  • Themes include the duality of human nature, Victorian hypocrisy, and the dangerous pursuit of scientific power.

Setting:

-London, duplicity of the city (respectable West End vs disreputable East End, reminiscent of Edinburgh’s New Town and Old Town)

Indice

  1. Descrizione della casa di Jekyll
  2. Genere del romanzo
  3. Opere simili

Descrizione della casa di Jekyll

-Main inside setting: Jekyll’s house (double entrance: official part of the house opening on a wide, respectable street/ laboratory opening on a narrow dark alley)
-Time: mostly night, or stormy weather (dark, cold and fog, nightmarish atmosphere)
Narrators:

- oblique, multi-narration structure (4 narrators: Enfield, Lanyon, Utterson and Jekyll) effect: various points of view, suspense

Genere del romanzo

Genre:

- multigenre novel: Gothic elements (the transformation, the night scenes), detective story (Mr Utterson as detective, playing “hide-and-seek), science fiction elements (the potion)
Characters:

- all “respectable” professional men, no women.

Themes:

- theme of the double ( Doppelgänger) – ( Jekyll as the whole man and Hyde as the unconscious side, the id)

-hypocrisy and double nature of the Victorian society

-function of science – sin of hybris – Jekyll as an overreaches (Faustian figure)

Opere simili

Other works with similar themes:

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818); Edgar Allan Poe’s short story William Wilson (1839); Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891); Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899).

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