Episode 106: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Part 2
This week on The Literary Life Podcast, our hosts are continuing their discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If you missed last week\u2019s episode, you will want to go back and catch Part 1 here. 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.
Be sure to check out Thomas\u2019 class on The French Revolution and other fall webinars at House of Humane Letters. Don\u2019t forget to check out our sister podcast, The Well Read Poem, as well as Cindy\u2019s new podcast, The New Mason Jar! We will be back here on The Literary Life in two weeks with our first in a series of episodes on Jane Austen\u2019s Mansfield Park.
Commonplace Quotes:One beautiful starry-skied evening, we two stood next to each other at a window, and I, a young man of about twenty-two who had just eaten well and had good coffee, enthused about the stars and called them the abode of the blessed. But the master grumbled to himself: \u201cThe stars, hum! hum! The stars are only a gleaming leprosy in the sky.\u201d
Heinrich Heine
It is a mistake, perhaps, to think that, to do one thing well, we must just do and think about that and nothing else all the time. It is our business to know all we can and to spend a part of our lives in increasing our knowledge of Nature and Art, of Literature and Man, of the Past and the Present. That is one way in which we become greater persons, and the more a person is, the better he will do whatever piece of special work falls to his share. Let us have, like Leonardo, a spirit \u2018invariably royal and magnanimous.\u2019
Charlotte Mason
The Land of NodThe poet\u2019s job is not to tell you what happened, but what happens: not what did take place, but the kind of thing that always takes place.
Northrup Frye
by Robert Louis Stevenson
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do \u2014
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason
The Educated Imagination by Northrup Frye
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Br\xf6nte
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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