I think what Stevenson is trying to teach in this book is that there is a notion between good and bad in the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it was published in 1886 and it was written after a dream that Stevenson had. The story mainly is about a horror but has a slight touch of mystery trailing behind it. This is powerful story that has a hidden outlook on life and society. There is one theme that just kind of sticks out from the others but there are also more themes but you would have to read through the lines to find the smaller ones, I would say that the main theme of the story would have to be duality in humans, this means that we have all hidden something extreme in us whether it is being something extremely good or something extremely evil. Robert Louis Stevenson decided to magnify on the extreme evil in the story, the story had been set in Victorian England where society was strictly disciplined were people had been expected to be middle class or upper class it’s pretty …show more content…
In this book we can see that Dr. Jekyll has come to realize how boring his life has become respectfully he realizes that his darker life is being consumed by two things his conscience and social appearances, he ask “what if”? to the fateful “what If I release the dark side and see what will happen, all in a scientifically controlled way”, the answer that comes with that question is rather exciting but also self-destructing. The evil in the book has been successfully conveyed throughout the novella, Hyde’s plays a big role in being evil it shows us that we as humans have a bit of Hyde in ourselves whether we know it or not it there waiting to get out at any chance it has. Although this book is somewhat strange but interesting it shows the study of the human mind this is all about good and evil and Victorian