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What do you find interesting and significant in Stevensons use of settings?
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What do you find interesting and significant in Stevenson's use of settings? This novella was written and set in the Victorian period where strict religious and moral codes led to people repressing their darker sides or indulging in them secretly. I think that in this novella Stevenson is satirising Victorian hypocrisy by using Jekyll as a prime example of a Victorian hypocrite, good in his public image but secretly indulging in his dark desires. Thus, this novella is all about duality. Twenty-five years before Stevenson wrote 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', Charles Darwin brought out the book 'On the Origin of Species'. The Victorians were shocked by this theory not easily accepting the idea that humans were descended from apes. Stevenson was very influenced by Darwin's book. This is shown again and again when Stevenson makes reference to Hyde's animalistic personality 'The other (Hyde) snarled aloud into a savage laugh'. The...
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