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Key Facts full title · The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde author · Robert Louis Stevenson type of work · Novel genre · Gothic mystery story language · English time and place written · 1885, Bournemouth, England date of first publication · January 1886 publisher · Longmans, Green and Co. narrator ·The narrator is anonymous and speaks in the third person. Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Jekyll each narrate one chapter of the novel via a confessional letter. point of view · For most of the novel, the narrative follows Utterson’s point of view; in the last two chapters, Lanyon and Jekyll report their experiences from their own perspectives. tone · Mysterious; serious tense · Past setting (time) · The latenineteenth century setting (place) · London protagonist · Henry Jekyll major conflict · Jekyll attempts to keep his dark half, Edward Hyde, under control and then to prevent himself from becoming Hyde permanently. rising action · Utterson attempts to discover the truth about the Jekyll-Hyde relationship. climax · One could argue for two different climaxes. The moment when Utterson breaks down thedoor to Jekyll’s laboratory and finds Hyde’s corpse constitutes a climax in that Utterson finally admits and accepts that something terribly wrong has taken place. But one might also see the novel’s climax as arising within Lanyon’s letter, at the moment that he witnesses Hyde’s transformation into Jekyll and the mysterious connection between the personas is finally explained. falling action ·Utterson leaves Jekyll’s laboratory, goes home, and reads the letters from Lanyon and Jekyll, which explain all. themes · The duality of human nature; the importance of reputation motifs · Violence against innocents; silence; urban terror

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symbols · Jekyll’s house and laboratory; Hyde’s physical appearanceforeshadowing · While a general mood of impending disaster pervades the novel, there are few instances of explicit foreshadowing.

Context R obert Louis Stevenson, one of the masters of the Victorian adventure story, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. He was a sickly child, and respiratory troubles plagued him throughout his life. As a young man, he traveled through Europe, leading abohemian lifestyle and penning his first two books, both travel narratives. In 1876, he met a married woman, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, and fell in love with her. Mrs. Osbourne eventually divorced her husband, and she and Stevenson were married. Stevenson returned to London with his bride and wrote prolifically over the next decade, in spite of his terrible health. He won widespread admirationwith Treasure Island, written in 1883, and followed it with Kidnapped in 1886; both were adventure stories, the former a pirate tale set on the high seas and the latter a historical novel set in Stevenson’s native Scotland. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which Stevenson described as a “fine bogey tale,” also came out in 1886. It met with tremendous success, selling 40,000 copies in six months andensuring Stevenson’s fame as a writer. In its narrative of a respectable doctor who transforms himself into a savage murderer, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tapped directly into the anxieties of Stevenson’s age. The Victorian era, named for Queen Victoria, who ruled England for most of the nineteenth century, was a time of unprecedented technological progress and an age in which European nations carved up theworld with their empires. By the end of the century, however, many people were beginning to call into question the ideals of progress and civilization that had defined the era, and a growing sense of pessimism and decline pervaded artistic circles. Many felt that the end of the century was also witnessing a twilight of Western culture. With the notion of a single body containing both the erudite...