Dr. Jekyll was a well known novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson that managed to play on the inner feelings of men in the 1800's that had no yet been tapped into by any other novel. This is why the book is still talked about and analyzed by people this day and age. The greatnesses of this novel were due to the inspirations the Victorian age had on Stevenson and the effects the novel had on the reader, not only that, but the book was also similar the another well known novel of that time called Dracula.
The Victorian age was like no other, so it's no wonder why it had such a strong impact on Stevenson's Writings. The time period lasted from 1837 to 1901; Stevenson's life was from 1850 to 1894, the core of the Victorian age. "Religion was peaking, people were socializing, and men were pretending. "Reality was lived in the darkness" (williams1). The Victorian age corresponds with the reign of Queen Victoria. The period was beloved for its attention to high morals, modesty and proper decorum, as inspired by the Queen and her husband, Prince Albert. The period was known for the men who were pressured by their inner being to live another life outside of a modest, highly moral society. The sense of inner division has come to be regarded as normal for that time period (1).
Stevenson lived as many of the men in his time did, split. Church-going, social, and known as people wanted to know him was one side of Stevenson. The other side of this man was sexual, self-fulfilling, and lived without people knowing what was going on. The time, the way he lived, and society around this man were the influences that made his writings what they were, something that the people of his time could ...