Hyde, the city acts like a Gothic haunted castle: it traps and haunts its inhabitants. However, the labyrinthic streets of the city make it inevitable for the respectable members of society to eventually encounter Mr. Jekyll meets with other members of society. Hyde’s sordid affairs do not occur in the same space where Dr. Different events take place in different scenarios, Mr. It seems logical that work meant to represent Victorian sensibilities takes place in the center of Victorian society. London was the center of Victorian society and to its inhabitants, the spaces for the respectable and the doomed, good and evil, were very clear. Hyde, even though the latter had a very clear division between the Old Town and the New Town, the respectable part of the city and the areas reserved for criminals, London was “much like its inhabitants, a macrocosm of the necessary fragmentation that Victorian man found inescapable” (1971, p.
Saposnik argues in his article The Anatomy of Dr. Many critics disagree on whether the city was meant to represent London or Edinburgh, however, as writer Irving S.
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