The Great Political Fictions: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Great Political Fictions: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

By David Runciman

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) is a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. This week’s episode explores all the ways that Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale confounds our expectations about good and evil. What does Dr Jekyll really want? What are all the men in the book trying to hide? And what has any of this got to do with Q-Anon and Hillary Clinton?


Next time: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine.


Coming next month on PPF: The Ideas Behind UK General Elections


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