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    Robert Louis Stevenson was from Edinburgh, Scotland. Some of his other widely read works include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses. His first manuscript of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was burned by his wife who dismissed it as nonsense. The moral of the story is about the struggle between good and evil within all people. The novella uses the split personality of Edinburgh and experiments by surgeon John Hunter as influences to explore the dual nature of humanity.

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    Robert Louis Stevenson was from Edinburgh, Scotland. Some of his other widely read works include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses. His first manuscript of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was burned by his wife who dismissed it as nonsense. The moral of the story is about the struggle between good and evil within all people. The novella uses the split personality of Edinburgh and experiments by surgeon John Hunter as influences to explore the dual nature of humanity.

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    PART 1: Robert Louis Stevenson: Ian Rankin investigates - ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

    Hyde’

    1. Where is Robert Louis Stevenson from?

    edinburgh

    2. Which other books by Stevenson are still widely read?

    Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

    3. Why did he burn his first manuscript of this novella?

    Fanny Stevenson burned it after dismissing it to a friend as "a quire full of utter nonsense.”

    4. In what way is ‘Dr Jekyll and Hyde’ like a classic morality tale? What’s the moral to be learned from this

    novella?

    What is the moral lesson of Jekyll and Hyde?


    Jekyll's struggle with his good and evil sides in order to demonstrate how there is good and evil in everyone.

    5. How many copies were sold in England (_____) the United States (____)?

    6. What’s the connection between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

    7. What was Stevenson’s childhood like?

    8. How did Alison Cunningham (his nanny) influence Stevenson?

    Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is a Christian denomination founded by Rev. Ian Paisley in 1951. Doctrinally, the church describes

    itself as fundamentalist, evangelical, and separatist. ‘Fire and brimstone’ = the supposed torments of hell.

    9. Why were her bedtime stories so terrifying for Stevenson as a child?

    10. What was Stevenson’s favourite bedtime story about?

    11. What were Thomas’ last words?


    12. In what way does the city of Edinburgh have a split personality?

    13. What did Deacon William Brodie do? Why did he have such a profound effect on Stevenson?

    14. Why did surgeons need to lead double lives? *cadaver = a corpse.

    15. How much was a single adult body?

    16. What was the name of the prequel written as a short story (before) ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’?

    17. Why is the novella set in London?

    18. What were the 3 most favourite Georgian remedies for illness based on the theory of the 4 humours?

    Bodies were thought to be made of Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Sanguine (blood) and Phlegm.

    19. Why was the grave robber’s favourite client John Hunter (February 1728 – October 1793)?

    20. What experiments was John Hunter doing in the middle of the 1800s?

    21. How was Hunter similar to Dr Jekyll?

    22. What’s the fictional character of Dr Jekyll’s supposed relationship with the surgeon, John Hunter?

    23. How does the layout of the house reflect the dual nature of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

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