J&H context

Rigid Expectations of a Victorian Gentleman and their reputation

• honest

• rational

• cultured

• never causing harm or upset

• a good job

• avoiding gossip

Contrasting areas of London

Duality of London:

• Cavendish Square: safe and civilised

• Soho: unkempt, neglected and dangerous

Evolution and Degradation: Charles Darwin and the "Descent of Man"

• Humankind descended from "hairy, tailed quadrupeds"

• Hyde reminds people of their evolutionary history

• uncivilised, savage, troglodytic, animalistic

Deacon Brodie

• Locksmith for the wealthy and influential in Edinburgh

• would make copies of keys and rob their houses at night

Dr John Hunter

• respectable surgeon with renowned home in Leicester Square

• brought grave-robbed bodies through the back entrance to study human anatomy

Conventions of Gothic Novels

• strange, supernatural events

• dreams having signs of the future

• good vs evil

• bleak, unsettling landscape

• sense of mystery

• villain/perpetrator