Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde :: English Literature

Dr Jekyll and Mr. HydeI turn over been reading the book Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The book waswritten by Robert Louis Stevens on during in the 19th century. Thisbook was written during a time where Victorian fellowship had a lot ofstrong moral values. These jurisprudences were precise strict and controlled allaspect of the Victorian lifestyle. People in these times believed tosettle things verbally rather than aggression so fighting was lookeddown upon. People looked upon this good-hearted of behavior as a sin and ofcourse they looked down upon sins as rise. The speed straighten out Victoriansociety believed that everyone kept to this moral code that they had.People in this time believed that community with very high placement werevery moral and did not cause any sins. However, this book was to a faultwritten during a time where there was a lot of dissimulation around andpeople. The underbelly of this society showed what Victorian societywas really like. though its polite a nd headspring-groomed exterior, we findpeople committing sins and going against the moral codes. These sinswere however well hidden from the society and although theyacknowledged some of the evil that was happening, they still justshrugged it cancelled saying that only the people committing evil were thesick individuals. The sick individuals also seemed to belong tothe lower straighten out society. Victorian people were very physiognomous asthey judged people by their animalism and the word sick seemed todescribe the lower class society very well according to Victoriantimes.We know now that it wasnt just the lower class individuals committingsins, but they werent individuals either. Robert Luis Stevensonexplorers this very well and shows that the upper class can be eviltoo. Stevenson used Hyde very well to hide Dr Jekylls evil officewell. Even the name is ironic. The upper class society had seemed toHyde all this very well. They kept their upper society life cleanbut they had a nother view that committed sins. That is what Dr Jekylland Mr. Hyde is all about. The author (Stevenson) had based this bookon people in this era. He believed in the duality of man, which meantthat every person had devil sides to their personality. He believed thatone side of a person would be prim and colorful whereas the otherwould be rude and dark. Stevenson who was brought up in upper classsociety, was fascinated with lower class society. With this, he seemedto become huffy at what Victorian society was like and this is echoedin Jekyll.The book Frankenstein heavily influenced Stevenson heavily as the