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The movie used the use of women as more scandalous while the book found them to be superfluous. The movie add more entertainment with women but the novella only saw them as lower, working class. The scene when Jekyll had been kissed by the beaten woman shows that they were seen as vixens and weren't very respectable people. The novella, on the other hand, had the women seen as helpless individuals. In the scene of the murder the only witness was a woman who become over taken by fear and fainted, demonstrating how helpless they become. Not only the murder scene, but when a little girl was trampled which also plays the helpless role. Women were only mentioned in both pieces of literature as unrespectable, maids,or helpless.