Key learning points

1. The Indutrial Revolution saw an increase in psychological conditions (anxiety, depression and feelings of alienation).
2. Strict moral codes of behaviour often led Victorians to live double lives, leading to a fragmentation of identities.
3. Many believed psychological conditions signified weakness or moral failure.
4. Dr. Jekyll’s battle between good and evil reflects the Victorian ideas of repressed desires and loss of self-control.
5. After his initial transformation, Jekyll begins to lose control over Hyde and grows weaker while Hyde gains strength.

Keywords

• Fragmented - broken into smaller parts, often referring to something once whole or unified

• Repression - unconscious suppression of desires, thoughts, or emotions, often due to societal or personal pressures

• Efficacy - the ability to produce a desired or intended result; effectiveness of something

• Psychoanalysis - a therapeutic method for exploring unconscious thoughts, developed by Freud

• Alienation - feeling isolated or from others, society, or one's own identity

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