Women And Sadism In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Summary

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In the article, “Women and Sadism In Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, Campbell covers the absence of women throughout the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Campbell states that some of the reasons of why women seem absent include Victorian censorship, theme of homosexuality, the theme of patriarchy’s failure and the lack of what Jekyll requires to avoid his experiment (the love of a good woman). Although it seems women are absent they are present as inhabitants of the city, defining the cityscape, and receiving all the violence of Mr. Hyde either direct victims or shocked witnesses, some examples being; the little girl, the angry women accusing Hyde of hurting the girl, the housekeeper, the match girl and the maidservant at the window.

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