Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Historical Events

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is greatly influenced by the historical events that happened during the time when Robert Louis Stevenson was writing this novel. The three main historical context that influenced the book are religion, the Victorian conventions of the nineteenth century and the gothic literature that was being published at the same time. Religion was a major part of the nineteenth century and was greatly enforced into the author and everyone’s daily life during that time. The Victorian conventions which caused great repression which is represented in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As well as the gothic novels that were also coming about during the same time which provoked discussion such as Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley which has quite a lot of similarities to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Religion impacted the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson greatly, he was brought up to the religion of Calvinism by his parents and nanny. Its ideas are embedded in the pages of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One of the main ideas in Calvinist is that man is born with an evil will. This is strongly displayed in the main idea that Dr. Jekyll has this deep longing for a life of pleasure without consequences. As seen on Chapter 10 Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case; “It
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde he was using the basic template established by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Frankenstein. Both novels were extremely similar in both a well-educated man/scientist who conducts secret experiments that gradually become out of control. The experiment both result in a doppelganger or mysterious supernatural double, who wrecks destruction upon the immediate domestic and social circle of its creator. Both works provoke discussion about the appropriate limits of human ambition, and they question whether or not humans should be granted unlimited scientific