Episode 237: “Best of” Series – “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Pt. 2, Ep. 106

The Literary Life Podcast

Angelina Stanford

Education, Selfeducation, Classicaleducation, Reading, Literature, Homeschool, Arts, Books, Charlottemason, Homeeducation, Homeschooling

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Literary Life Podcast, we continue our remix of a past discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If you missed last week’s episode, you will want to go back and catch Part 1. Angelina kicks of the book chat with a look at the format of the story and how it keeps us in suspense. Thomas brings up the idea of forbidden knowledge found in this book and the similarities between it and Frankenstein. Some other topics covered in this episode include the dangers of dehumanizing victims of crime, the nature of sin and addiction, the Renaissance idea of the well-ordered man, and the mythic qualities of this story.

For a complete booklists and links to everything mentioned in this episode, including ways to connect with our hosts, please visit https://theliterary.life/237.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast.
0:03.0	We've grown quite significantly since our debut in 2019,
0:07.0	and we've had many requests to highlight older episodes that new listeners may have missed,
0:12.0	as well as revisit listener favorites.
0:15.4	To honor that request, I present to you this episode of the Best of the Literary Life Podcast. Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast, where your hosts Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins
0:28.0	explore a life shaped by books, stories, and poetry.
0:32.0	Each week we will rescue story from the ivory tower
0:35.0	and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute.
0:38.2	The literary life is for everyone because in the words of Stratford Caldecott to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality.
0:51.0	Hello and welcome back to the Literary Life podcast. I am Angelina Stanford and today with me the dynamic duo the
0:58.8	not Jacqueline Hyde of Thomas Banks and Sidney Rollins are going to help me to finish up Robert
1:07.6	Lewis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
1:13.6	Hello, hello.
1:14.6	Hello, that's my, in a world where a doctor has drugs.
1:22.4	That's my movie announcer voices. I'm not going to give up my day job.
1:25.9	No, no. Yeah, you just need to sound creepier as all. It's probably probably good.
1:29.7	Deeper in a world. We need some weird music also so
1:34.7	weird theory music alerting us to when something's gonna go badly wrong
1:41.2	exactly exactly so we are back for a part two. Last time was mostly an
1:46.9	introduction and we just got through the very beginning, the first couple of sections and now we're
1:51.5	going to be able to jump into the book as a whole and oh it was great fun reading this again.
1:57.6	Just oh, I don't even know the first time I read this. This is a long time favorite of mine.
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