The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Victorian London

A concise and professionally structured resource exploring how Victorian London functions as a symbolic and moral landscape in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

This resource provides focused analysis of London’s divided spaces, fog, darkness, thresholds, respectable districts, Soho and hidden interiors. It examines how Stevenson uses the modern city to develop secrecy, repression, class anxiety, scientific unease and duality, showing that hidden corruption exists within rather than outside respectable society.

Key features:

• Clear analysis of Victorian London as an active, symbolic setting rather than a simple backdrop
• Focus on fog, darkness, Soho, Jekyll’s house, the laboratory, hidden entrances, streets and enclosed interiors
• Exploration of urban Gothic, moral geography, respectability, repression, thresholds, anonymity and divided identity
• Activities to reinforce and practise key concepts, including contextual recall, vocabulary, true-or-false questions, analytical links, inference, setting tracking, quotation analysis, paragraph building, creative description and extended essay planning
• Detailed answer key included for straightforward checking and review