Setting in literature refers to the time and place of the text.

The placing of contrasting ideas or images close together is known as juxtaposition.

The word duality describes the combination of two opposite things in one.

If you are pious, you live in a way that shows your religious beliefs.

Blasphemy is saying or doing something that shows you do not respect God or a religion.

Considering Stevenson's subversion of Gothic setting in 'Jekyll and Hyde'

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Considering Stevenson's use of time and weather in 'Jekyll and Hyde'

Considering Stevenson's use of fog as a motif in 'Jekyll and Hyde'

Exploring Mr Utterson's dream in Stevenson's 'Jekyll and Hyde'

Comparing atmospheric settings in Stevenson's 'Jekyll and Hyde'

Considering doors and windows as key motifs in Stevenson's 'Jekyll and Hyde'

Detailed analysis of an extract in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'

In 'Jekyll and Hyde: the Divided City', pupils explore how the city of London is used as a symbol of Jekyll's duplicitous life. In 'Jekyll & Hyde: Society as the Villain', pupils critically analyse the role the Victorian patriarchy and the class system plays in Jekyll's demise.

In 'Jekyll & Hyde: Duality and Evil', pupils explore how Jekyll creates Hyde to explore his deepest and darkest desires. In 'Jekyll & Hyde, the Divided City', pupils explore how Stevenson uses the setting of London to symbolise the duality of Jekyll.

In this unit, pupils explore the importance of settings in 'Jekyll and Hyde'. They first look at how Stevenson subverts our expectations of gothic settings, before looking at different settings and motifs in the novella. They finally do a detailed analysis of the 'Incident at the window' extract.

Nineteenth century text: first deep dive

A juggernaut is a large powerful unstoppable force.

If something is concealed, it has been hidden.

If you subvert something, you turn it upside down.

A motif is an image or idea that is used many times across a piece of writing.

A pall is a thick dark cloud of something, for example smoke. It is also a cloth placed over coffins at funerals.

The period of time between sunset and the darkness of night is known as twilight.

Liminal describes something that is between two stages.

Nocturnal means at night or happening at night.

If something is ubiquitous, it is everywhere.

Foreshadows means giving a hint about an event that will happen later.

A comparison between two things with similar qualities is called an analogy.

We can refer to a twisty and complex plot as tortuous.

Prepositions are words used to describe where nouns are placed.

If a journey is tortuous, it is full of twists and turns.

To be alienated from society means you feel like a stranger.

Illegal activities or behaviour can be described as criminality.

The term duality refers to the state of combining two different things.

A threshold is the point between two rooms or the level at which something starts.

We describe things as liminal when they exist in an uncertain space between two distinct spaces.

If you are respectable, your character, appearance or behaviour is socially acceptable.

If something is significant, it is important or noticeable.

If something is vivid it produces clear, bright pictures in your mind

The context of a novel is anything social, historical or cultural that surrounds it.

A thesis in literature essays is a theory that you suggest and then produce evidence to support it.

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