The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

R. L. Stevenson · 1886 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

A London lawyer grows uneasy about the brutal Mr Hyde, a stranger who has somehow acquired a claim on his old friend's will. As Hyde's violence escalates, Dr Jekyll withdraws behind the locked door of his laboratory and refuses all visitors. The respectable self and its appetites split into two bodies; the shadow given a name.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Frankenstein
  Mary Shelley · 1818 CE · Novel
• prefigures ↓ Fight Club
  David Fincher / Palahniuk · 1999 CE · Film
• ↓ Persona
  Ingmar Bergman · 1966 CE · Film — parallels this
• ↓ The Nutty Professor
  Jerry Lewis · 1963 CE · Film — reworks this

Attributes

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