Find a passage or two in the novel where Stevenson describes Hyde, his appearance, his effect on others. Also check out the various visual representations of Hyde that I have posted in the Texts section of our site. Focusing on particular words and specific visual details, explain how Stevenson and others who have interpreted his […]
Great movie poster. Not so great movie. As in cinematic adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this recent movie insists on emphasizing heterosexual romance. The Sybil Vane plot certainly introduces that theme into the novel, but Wilde focuses much more attention on homosocial and homoerotic relationships. This attention is rarely explicit, in part because of the […]
How did the press cover this event? I would like you to read Victorian newspaper accounts not looking for factual information (much of the reporting was simply inaccurate) but rather looking for themes and characters, as you would read any story. Read through a number of the newspaper accounts (see link on Texts page) of […]