Hyde yo’ kids.
Hyde yo’ wife.
A very special episode of LIT Society is here. Break out the poison!
Fun fact: 95% of folks have heard of Jekyll and Hyde, but literally no one has ever read it — until today!
Join Alexis and Kari, your virtual book club, on a wild ride through the streets of London at a time when tramp meant something totally different than how your grandma uses the word today.
While quarantined, we’re excited to share with you this, our very first episode, originally released to a small group of test listeners in 2019. We like to think the quality of our show has improved since then, but this is still one of our favorite episodes! Enjoy!
‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – The British Library was to show the dual nature not only of one man but also of society in general. Throughout the story, respectability is doubled with degradation; abandon with restraint; honesty with duplicity. Even London itself has a dual nature, with its respectable streets existing side-by-side with areas notorious for their squalor and violence.
Omgoodness, thank you! We Googled this quote and discovered there was a movie adaptation titled Mary Reily starring Julia Roberts! We’ll likely never watch it, but we’ll sleep at night better knowing it’s out there.