#Stevenson's purpose was to oppose the repressive victorian social structures
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Hate it when j&h adaptations give Jekyll a female love interest, like bitch, he HAS a love interest who is introduced on the first page, and his name is MR UTTERSON THE LAWYER.
#well technically it's “gabriel john utterson' but those are the first 4 words of the book#my random stuff#dr jekyll and mr hyde#jekyll and hyde#and on a more serious note-#it tells me that the adaptation understood nothing about the novella#because the queer subtext* is almost domtext#*and yes i say subtext as opposed to coding because#Stevenson's purpose was to oppose the repressive victorian social structures#and the unspoken social codes and unnecessary laws surrounding what people could and couldn't do#and; yeah sure there were plenty of those for straight relationships#but doubly so for queer ones#queerness is SO important to this novella even though it's never overtly mentioned#edit: just saw a post that reminded me of this one and I'd like to add:#adaptations that give jekyll a female LI seem to make her ONLY a love interest without any development#and usually they only exist to get raped or killed by Hyde#it's. not great.
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