Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Theme - Coggle Diagram
Theme
context
good and evil
Victorian's claimed to be pious and moral, they ignored anything that went against their own beliefs, this meant they were hypocrites
-
this resulted in many people questioning their "goodness" as human beings due to the fact that religion condemned these evil thoughts
duality
throughout the novel, Stevenson establishes a link between Victorian London, which had grown exponentially in size since the 1800s, and the dark events surrounding Hyde
-
Stevenson uses nightmarish imagery and the weather to present the idea of duality in London and Hyde
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin's theory challenged their religion. Due to the society's interest in religion, people were afraid of scientific developments and feared what this would do to mankind
-
Cesare Lombroso an Italian criminologist, who's work was not supported scientifically. Hyde's physical features support Lombroso's idea that a 'born criminal' could be recognised with their physical features
Robert Louis Stevenson himself was born and raised in Edinburgh, giving him a dual identity of being Scottish and British. Edinburgh was a city of two sides - he was raised in the wealthy New Town area, but spent his youth exploring the dark sinister part of town
-
-
-