English Lit

Use the links below to help you refresh your knowledge on Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and assist your exam revision

Wider Reading

The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson - Wider Reading Booklet for Jekyll & Hyde

Wider Reading Booklet - Wider-Reading-Booklet-for-Jekyll-and-Hyde

  • Preface to Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (30 mins)

  • ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Jekyll and Hyde – Part 1 (30 mins)

  • ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Jekyll and Hyde – Part 2 (30 mins)

  • Gothic fiction in the fin de siècle: mutating bodies and disturbed minds (30 mins)

  • Post Darwin: social Darwinism, degeneration, eugenics (30 mins)

  • Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Part 1 (30 mins)

  • Ian Rankin on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Part 2 (30 mins)

  • The beast within

  • Criticism tasks (20/30 mins each)

Socio/Historical Context

The Gothic


Darwin and Evolution


Victorian London


Freud and Jung psychology


Religion


Double Lives (45 Mins)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13e5dvhsrT1Ne2BdRgwgSHwFnOjhFdz19/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=104880229868093877289&rtpof=true


Embedded context (20 Mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-FOp_XLDMY



Shortcut to key documents:

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