STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
The word STRANGE appears 24 times in the text, including STRANGER, ESTRANGED and STRANGENESS. It is like a refrain -- the tonality, perhaps, of all its events.
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The word STRANGE appears 24 times in the text, including STRANGER, ESTRANGED and STRANGENESS. It is like a refrain -- the tonality, perhaps, of all its events.
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The word CASE is interesting, firmly locating the story in the professional sphere of lawyers and doctors. This seems to be a very early -- possibly the first? -- use of CASE in a title to signify a detective or mystery story.
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The key linguistic aspect of the title is the contrast between “DR” and “MR” -- the respectable science of Jekyll against the secular, irrational Hyde.
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