The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson during the late Victorian era. Although "this horror story owes its allegiance to gothicism rather than realism, many critics suggest that Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of a man torn between his respectable public identity and an amoral secret self captures key anxieties of the fin de siècle" (Norton 1669 ). The late Victorian era was “the prevailing mood during the closing decades of the nineteenth century” (Norton 1668). In the story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, there are some reflections of the collapse of Victorian values that carried forward their civic responsibility as a whole. In history there could be a distance of... It was one of the values that the Victorians had to follow in order not to dismantle themselves in the cities. In the story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mr. Hyde committed a crime by killing and abusing two people in the story. The first person to die was Sir Danvers Carew. As described, the “old gentleman took a step back, with the air of one who is very surprised and a little offended; and at that point Mr. Hyde went beyond all bounds and struck him to the ground. And the next moment, with ape-like fury, he trampled his victim and unleashed a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body leapt onto the roadway” (Stevenson 1688). Doctor Jekyll had been transformed into the evil Hyde and had committed numerous injuries and crimes. As another example: “He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a night city; then of the figure of a man walking quickly; then of a child who runs away from the doctor; and then they met, and that human Juggernaut trampled the little girl and died regardless of her screams” (Stevenson 1682-1683). He also ends up killing himself, Dr. Hyde, keeping his evil soul. Overall, the story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written as a reflection of the values of the Victorian era. Hyde could have and probably would have been punished or executed for his crimes. That said, it would be difficult for the average person to survive during this time period.
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