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The unsettling, repugnant and deformed Edward Hyde is a character who provokes extreme visceral aversion from the unwary Victorian reader. Stevenson presents the troglodytic figure of Hyde ingeniously and to crystallize his description of unattractiveness, he uses structure and setting to make Hyde seem ominous and devilish. This chilling build up sets up tension and suspense for the Victorians. The then current religious theory that man had been made out of God's image had been overhauled by Darwin's theory. Darwin claimed that humans were highly elaborate apes. Most Victorians called the theory preposterous. Victorian society was in chaos and heated arguments broke out. The fact that there was a debate of evolution in a book was sensational to the Victorians. Stevenson uses Hyde to explore the theory and split life apart. His "dwarf like stature and resemblance of Satan" would have shaken Victorian society and infuriated readers. Stevenson had...

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