Foucauldian Reading:
This assignment asks you to perform a Foucauldian reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You will take the philosophy of Michel Foucault which is his reading of Panopticism and apply it to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
In Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault describes the rise of a culture of surveillance.
How does Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde suggest the presence of such a culture?
You might examine references to windows and to observation, particularly by London policemen.
In the conclusion, consider the ways Foucault’s views on surveillance differ from Stevenson’s literary depiction of it.
Here’s the website for the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reading: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42/pg42.html
