Warm Up (15 minutes)

1. Warm Up (15 minutes) • What is your view on the continuing exploration of science? Do you think that it is better to find out all we can on one particular subject? Do you think that it is better that we just know the bare minimum about a subject and move on to finding a new subject? When does scientific discovery go too far? When does it become too much for man to handle?

2. Lonna Katie Thomas Helen Giancarlo Dalton Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

3. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nationality: Scottish • Birth Date: November 13, 1850 • Death Date: December 3, 1894 (stroke) • Attended Edinburgh University in 1867 where he concentrated on learning how to write • Received the Royal Scottish Society of Art’s Silver Medal in 1871 for his essay “On a New Form of Intermittent Light for the Lighthouses” • His father wanted him to stick to the family business of engineering, but Stevenson refused because of his love for writing. • He toured Europe after college and was accused of being a Prussian spy while in France. He continued to write essays throughout his travels. • While in Paris, Stevenson met and fell in love with Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. In August 1879, he went to America to try to find her again. They got married in May 1880 and lived in San Francisco, CA. • In August 1880, the couple set off for Britain to go back to Stevenson’s family home. • Throughout the rest of his life he continued to write novels and traveled with his wife and stepson

4. Summary • Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield go on a walk where Enfield tells a story about how he saw a sinister figure named Mr. Hyde trample a young girl, disappear into a door on the street, and reemerge to pay off her relatives with a check signed by a respectable gentleman. • Dr. Jekyll says in in his will that all of his property belongs to Mr. Hyde, and since Utterson is his lawyer, he is obviously concerned. • Utterson seeks out Hyde in the middle of the night and instantly feels hatred towards him. He tries to ask about who he is, but Hyde gets suspicious and leaves. • A year passes, when one night a maid sees Hyde brutally murder Parliament member named Sir Danvers Carew. Utterson suspects Hyde. The police pursue the lead, but Hyde has disappeared. • Utterson visits Jekyll, who now claims to have ended all relations with Hyde and have written him out of his will.

5. Summary Con’t • For a few months after the murder, Jekyll starts to be really happy and reconnect with all his old friends. But suddenly he begins to refuse visitors, and Utterson receives a letter that he is told not to open until Jekyll’s death. • Jekyll’s butler, Poole, comes to Utterson’s house in the middle of the night and says that he is very afraid because Jekyll has been locked in his office for several weeks. • Poole and Utterson go together to Jekyll’s house and eventually break down his office door. Inside, they find Hyde’s dead body, but he is wearing Jekyll’s clothes. They also find a letter from Jekyll to Utterson promising to explain everything.

6. Summary Con’t • Utterson takes the letters home and reads the first one, which he received from Mr. Lanyon. He explains that his death was caused by shock from seeing Mr. Hyde transform into Dr. Jekyll before his own eyes. • Jekyll’s letters explains that he created a potion that could separate his good side (Dr. Jekyll) from his darker impulses (Mr. Hyde). He had fun at first, but then realized that he was losing control of the transformations and turning into Hyde in his sleep. • He tried to stop for a while, but one night, Jekyll could not resist taking the potion again. This was the night that Hyde killed Carew. After this he vowed to stop becoming Hyde, but he couldn’t help it anymore. • Eventually, the potion that let Jekyll turn back from Hyde into his normal self ran out, and this is why he locked himself in his office. • Rather than permanently become Hyde, he kills himself.

7. Frankenstein

8. Mary Shelley • Born August 30, 1797 in London, England • She was the daughter of famed anarchist William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. • She married a poet named Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. • During her marriage her husband committed adultery, and her two children both died. • Her husband died an early death in 1822, after which Mary worked to promote his writings and write more of her own. • Mary Shelley died in 1851 of brain cancer. • She is best known for her horror novels, Frankenstein and The Modern Prometheus.

9. Summary • Robert Walton starts the book with a series of letters to his sister, describing his journey to the North Pole. One night, his crew rescues Victor Frankenstein, and once he is healthy, he starts to tell Walton his life story. • Frankenstein first describes a blissful childhood in Geneva. When he is 17, he goes to the University of Ingolstadt to study natural science and chemistry. • At school, Frankenstein discovers the secret of life, and spends months building a creature and brings it to life. • Once the creature is alive, Frankenstein is disgusted with how ugly it is. He leaves the apartment, and the monster also leaves while he is out. • On his walk, Frankenstein meets his old childhood friend, Henry Clerval, who nurses him back to health when Frankenstein has a sort of nervous breakdown about his creation.

10. Summary Con’t • Frankenstein is preparing to go home to Geneva when he receives a letter from his father that his little brother has been killed. • On his way to Geneva, he sees the monster near town and becomes convinced that the monster is his brother’s murderer. • When Frankenstein gets to town, he discovers that another childhood friend, Justine Moritz has been accused of his brother’s death. He and his sister, Elizabeth, try to defend her, but Justine is executed. Elizabeth become incredibly sad, and Victor feels guilty with the knowledge that the monster he has created bears responsibility for the death of two innocent loved ones.

11. Summary Con’t • Hoping to ease his grief, Victor takes a vacation to the mountains. One day, the monster approaches him and asks to tell his story. Ever since he left Frankenstein’s apartment, he’s been met with nothing but disgust and hatred. • He tells a story of how he lived in a shed next door to a family that he grew to love and learn from, but when he presented himself to them, they were also disgusted and moved away the very next day. • The monster admits to the murder of William but says that he only struck out at William in a desperate attempt to injure the cruel creator who abandoned him. He asks Victor to create a mate for him and says that, in exchange, no human will ever see him again. • Frankenstein refuses at first, but the monster eventually convinces him. He secludes himself on an island to start building the monster’s mate. One night, he looks out the window and sees the monster staring in at him, and, horrified about the consequences of giving the monster a mate, destroys his new creation. The monster is enraged and swears that he will get revenge at Victor’s wedding to Elizabeth.

12. Summary Con’t • That night, Victor takes a boat out to dump the second creature’s body in the lake. Strong wind prevents his return to the island, and he finds himself on an unknown shore in the morning. • Upon landing, he is arrested for murder but denies knowing anything about it. He is shown Henry’s body, with the monster’s fingerprints on his neck, and has another breakdown. He’s kept in prison until he recovers and is acquitted of the murder. • Frankenstein returns to Geneva and marries Elizabeth. While away from Elizabeth, he hears her scream and realizes that the monster was hinting at killing his bride, not himself. Victor’s father shortly dies of grief. Having lost everyone he loves, Frankenstein vows to find the monster and get his revenge. • He chases the monster farther and farther north, and, when he has almost caught up with him, the ice breaks and he loses him. This is when Walton finds him. • Walton finishes the novel with more letters to his sister. Victor was already ill when he was found, and he dies shortly after telling his story. A few days later, Walton returns to the room when Frankenstein’s body lies, and sees the monster crying over him. The monster tells Walton of his loneliness, suffering, hatred, and remorse. He says that now that his creator has died, he too can end his suffering.

13. Closing- Ticket Out • Respond to one of the following prompts: • In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll said, “A man is not truly one, but truly two.” Do you agree with this quote? Why or why not? • What is your opinion on Victor Frankenstein’s discovery of “the secret to life?” Do you think that humans should ever be able to create life? Why or why not?