My kid’s Gothic Literature class has moved from Frankenstein onto Jekyll & Hyde… so far, I’m not loving it.
Frankenstein was overwrought, but I actually quite enjoyed the prose. That’s not so much happening with Jekyll & Hyde so far… However, it does look to be quite short.
Robert Louis Stevenson in Jekyll & Hyde: The man was deformed!
Reader: Ok
RLS: So deformed! It was horrid!
Reader: Ok how?
RLS: What?
Reader: How was he deformed?
RLS: Huh?
Reader: What did he look like?
RLS: Oh perfectly normal but—
Both: —deformed.
Reader: …riiiight.
In case you think I’m exaggerating:
“Only on one point, were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.”
—The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson