Knowra Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella follows a London physician whose experiments divide his life between the respectable Dr. Jekyll and the violent Mr. Hyde.
Transformation : A change in form, appearance, or nature. Jekyll’s physical change makes his divided identity visible as a plot event.
Robert Louis Stevenson : A Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet who wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. His authorship and craft shaped the novella’s style, structure, and lasting afterlife.
Gabriel John Utterson : A London lawyer who investigates the connection between Jekyll and Hyde. His cautious inquiry supplies the novella’s principal viewpoint and investigative momentum.
Dualism : The view that reality or human nature consists of two fundamentally distinct kinds or principles. Jekyll’s theory treats good and evil as separable elements within a person.
Jekyll and Hyde : A phrase for a person who displays sharply contrasting aspects of character. The characters’ names became a common label for a divided or contradictory personality.
Doppelgänger : A double or look-alike who mirrors or unsettles a person’s identity. Hyde functions as Jekyll’s disturbing double, embodying traits Jekyll tries to disown.
The Double (Dostoevsky novel) : Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1846 novella about a clerk confronting a mysterious double. It offers an earlier literary treatment of fractured identity, though through a different psychological and social world.
Edward Hyde : The violent, increasingly dominant identity produced by Dr. Jekyll’s experiments. Hyde’s actions turn Jekyll’s private division into a danger to others.
Repression (psychology) : The exclusion of distressing thoughts or desires from conscious awareness. Jekyll’s attempt to conceal disowned impulses echoes the novella’s language of suppressed selfhood.
Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Stage, film, and other retellings of Stevenson’s novella. Adaptations repeatedly reinterpret the transformation and often make Hyde a more visible spectacle.
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