#robert louis stevenson

[prokopetz]

I think we need one of those popular read-along blogs to tackle The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the same way that's been done for Dracula and Moby-Dick. The number of folks around here who appear to be under the impression that reading a queer subtext into Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a subversion rather than being straightforwardly material to the plot is frankly embarrassing, and I'm assuming this is because nobody's actually read the damn thing.

[enchantedbook]

'Child's Garden of Verses' by Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated by Roger Duvoisin,

(1900 - 1980).

[undeadmihaly]

Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson reading like that Edgar Allan Poe meme

edit: I drew these versions myself and it's free to share, however the original comic strip is from Kate Beaton!

[aosusy]

[oranye766]

"Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost." - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Their relationship is so interesting, considering they know they are the same person but feel so averse to each others desires that in some way they are still separate, and that Jekyll sees Hyde as an ultimatum, wow. TSCODJAMH is peak literature.

[linnytheseagull]

A gothic literature hyperfixation has possessed me so I made this

(This took way longer to make than it reasonably should have)

[moroniccats]

Women in Sherlock Holmes: women are surprisingly smart and resilient, and have very diverse personalities and goals. Also they are emotional and weak and must be protected by big strong men with no sense of self preservation. Can you tell the author has sisters.

Women in Dracula: women are pure, noble creatures who are delicate and sensitive. They are smart and helpful, and devoted to their husbands and friends. Still weak.

Women in The Picture Of Dorian Gray: women are not as disgusting as Lord Henry says. But they are still dumb and shallow and will be mocked for daring to have a personality. As opposed to men, who are smart and beautiful with their rosy lips. The author is totally not gay.

Women in Jekyll And Hyde: women? What are those?

[a-little-miffed]

shitty tiktokified wuthering heights

high school oversanitised disney phantom of the opera

two new jane austen adaptations that are really not needed rather than books that need good adaptations like northanger abbey and mansfield park

awful hollywood action movie odyssey

netflix “modernised” dorian gray

tbf i don’t know much about the new frankenstein but given the precedent i am Afraid

im scared they’re coming for jekyll and hyde next and i will never cease to marvel at people’s ability to misunderstand that book