Episode 105: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson, Part 1
Welcome to today\u2019s episode of The Literary Life Podcast! Today our hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks explore Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. After their commonplace quote discussion, each cohost shares some personal thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson. Be aware that this episode will contain some spoilers, though we will not spoil the full ending. Thomas shares some biographical information about R. L. Stevenson. Angelina points out the mythic quality of this story and the enduring cultural references inspired by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She and Thomas also discuss some of the differences between early and late Victorian writers. They also begin digging into the first section of the book.
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Commonplace Quotes:I would rather (said he) have the rod to be the general terrour to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there\u2019s an end on\u2019t; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Samuel Johnson, as quoted by James Boswell
Do not talk about Shakespeare\u2019s mistakes: they are probably your own
G. M. Young
R L SThe most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn\u2026 They disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, not as we see it for ourselves, but with a singular change\u2013that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, for the nonce, struck out.
Robert Louis Stevenson
by A. E. Houseman
Home is the sailor, home from sea:
Her far-borne canvas furled
The ship pours shining on the quay
The plunder of the world.
Home is the hunter from the hill:
Fast in the boundless snare
All flesh lies taken at his will
And every fowl of air.
\u2018Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Daylight and Champaign by G. M. Young
\u201cBooks Which Have Influenced Me\u201d by Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child\u2019s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey in the C\xe9vennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon\u2019s Mines by H. Ryder Haggard
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Robert Louis Stevenson by G. K. Chesterton
God in the Dock by C. S. Lewis
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Body Snatcher and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
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