Key learning points

1. The Industrial Revolution led to advantages and disadvantages for society such as economic growth and urban poverty.
2. Major concerns during the Industrial Revolution included fears of dehumanisation and loss of autonomy.
3. In 'Jekyll and Hyde', scientific progress is linked to dehumanisation, moral degradation and loss of control.
4. Hyde represents the primal, base desires of Jekyll, which come to the surface when moral control is lost.
5. The novella warns readers about the ethical risks of technological advancements and loss of traditional values.

Keywords

• Primal/primitive - early or undeveloped; relating to the first stages of human or societal development

• Basic desires - fundamental human urges, such as hunger, survival, or reproduction

• Dehumanising - to strip someone of human qualities, treating them as less than human

• Cautionary tale - a story that warns of potential dangers or consequences of certain actions or behaviours

• Ominous - suggesting that something bad or threatening is about to happen

Common misconception