A Christmas Carol2 h 30 min of study
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Great Expectations2 h of study
Jane Eyre2 h of study
Frankenstein2 h of study
Pride and Prejudice2 h of study
Other 19th-century novels: The Sign of Four, Silas Marner, The War of the Worlds2 h of study

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Lesson 2 of 7 · The 19th-century novel

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Analyse the themes of the duality of human nature, repression and respectability, science versus religion and the supernatural, secrecy, reputation and violence
Trace Jekyll and Hyde, Utterson, Lanyon, Enfield and Poole
Analyse the structure: multiple narrators, delayed revelation, and the final documents (Lanyon’s narrative and Jekyll’s full statement)

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Explore the Gothic methods: fog-bound London settings, the door and the doubled house, animal imagery, and the indescribable Hyde

Link the novella to its context: Darwin and fears of degeneration, the Victorian gentleman, and fin-de-siècle anxieties

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