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... fine gentleman, much like Jekyll in the book. What people didn't know, however, is that at night he would leave his house using the back entrance (similar to Jekyll's second door), and go to Brothels and Cock fights, indulging in unrespectable acts to a man of his status. This idea of there being two sides of Edinburgh - the respectable side and the unrespectable side. This is also in the book, with the two sides of London portrayed as Cavendish Square and Soho - with the two very much next to each other. Evidently the idea of duality began in the very inspiration for the book. The most obvious example in the book if the double life of Jekyll/Hyde. But duality follows in other ways, like Hyde's rooms. The house is in a run-down area of London - Soho, yet the interior is described as "A closet was filled with wire; ...
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