PART 2: Robert Louis Stevenson: Ian Rankin investigates - ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde’

1. What happened to Stevenson two weeks before he started writing the book?

2. How did this influence what happens in the novel? (Plant extract that makes you hallucinate)

3. What two things did Stevenson dream off when he had a high fever?

4. How does Rankin suggest that Stevenson creates his narrative structure?

5. What does his wife, Fanny, say about the first manuscript of ‘Jekyll and Hyde’?

6. How does Fanny say her husband responded to her critique?

7. What does Freud (famous psychologist) say about the conscious and unconscious self?

8. Where was Stevenson’s headquarters (the place he wrote his stories)?

9. What was the ‘The Travelling Companion’ about?

10. What might have truly upset Fanny about the first version of Jekyll and Hyde?

11. Psychopathia Sexualis was published 10 years before Jekyll and Hyde. What does the German author ‘argue’

about human nature?

12. What insight does this book give us into the character of Dr Jekyll?
13. How does the film version differ to the novel re characters?

14. What was the more famous sexual scandal in London?

15. How did newspaper coverage of this scandal change the law?

16. Sir Danvers Carew, a distinguished M.P. (Member of Parliament), does not appear in the work, but whose

vicious murder by Edward Hyde causes a turning point in the novel. How is Carew presented?

17. Who was supposed to have been copying Mr Hyde with his murders in real life?

18. “Edward Hyde is not a monster” – how did this influence Ian Rankin when creating the fictional Detective

Inspector John Rebus?