THOUGHT & CULTURAL FORMATION + characters THOUGHT & CULTURAL FORMATION: He was influenced by his nurse “Cummy” (a calvinist who educated him because his mother was ill), and at the head of his cultural formation there are: - the Bible; - the Pilgrim's Progress of Bunyan; - Robinson Crusoe of Daniel Defoe; - the evolution’s theory of Charles Darwin (scientific progress vs. religion: in fact, at the age of 17, he becames an atheist); - the Positivism of Auguste Comte; - the Naturalism of Émile Zola; - the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham. CHARACTERS: • Henry Jekyll: a chemistry doctor and a religious researcher; a respectable man and benefactor. • Edward Hyde: Jekyll's evil alter ego, all instinct and irrationality, a "primitive" man. • Gabriel John Utterson : lawyer, cousin and friend of Jekyll. He is a person of horrid appearance: thin, tall, and with scruffy clothes. He loves the wine. • Richard Enfield: cousin of Utterson. • Dr. Hastie Lanyon: doctor and friend of Henry Jekyll and Utterson. He does not approve Jekyll's experiments, though he is positivist and rationalist. • Mr. Poole.: the servant of Jekyll. • Inspector Newcomen: he helps Utterson after the murder of Sir Danvers Carew. • Sir Danvers Carew: a kind old man, who is an important Member of the Parliament and customer of Utterson . • Maid: she is the only person who claims to have seen the murder of Sir Danvers Carew.