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Explore and analyse the significance of the setting in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson The novel I am analysing is "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and it was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886. Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. In my opinion, this influenced him to write this novel because, like Jekyll and Hyde, he led a dual life in the respectable New Town by day and the depraved Old Town by night. It was written in the Victorian Era. Around this time, electricity had been invented and the scientist, Galvarni, had managed to bring dead cells back to life. This scientific boom led people to believe anything was possible. Furthermore, Charles Darwin was around this time, and was bringing new theories about evolution into science. This caused controversy and in my opinion influenced Stevenson to write a gothic novel...

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