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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.
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preamble and timeline
PREAMBLE:
The present work is based on the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), and commonly associated with the rare mental condition called ‘split personality’ or ‘dissociative identity disorder’.
This work can be divided in:
a – general information about the author and the novel;
b – focus on key-themes;
c – conclusion.
The input-questions served to start this work are:
1) Can the soul doubling in two?
2) How many identities exist?
3) The final suicide hides other meanings?
LIFE’S TIMELINE:
• Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, 1850 - Vailima, 1894) was a Scottish writer, son of Thomas (a civil engineer) and Margaret (a French), by whom he inherits problems such as the tuberculosis.
• Needing fresh air, first he moves to France and then he attended engineering at the Edinburgh’s University, which he left to devote himself to literature.
• In the 1880 he marries Fanny Osbourne, and he writes lots of stories and novels. The best are: Treasure island (1883), Kidnapped (1885) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
• He dies in the 1894, maybe because of a cerebral hemorrhage and he is buried in the Samoan Islands. Today his house welcomes a museum in his honor.
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How many errors are there?
PREAMBLE:
The present work is based on the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), and commonly associated with the rare mental condition called ‘split personality’ or ‘dissociative identity disorder’.
This work can be divided in:
a – general information about the author and the novel;
b – focus on key-themes;
c – conclusion.
The input-questions served to start this work are:
1) Can the soul doubling in two?
2) How many identities exist?
3) The final suicide hides other meanings?
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