JEKYLL AND HYDE BIG PIC IDEAS

Stevenson explores the implication

of individuals overreaching and warning contemporary audiences against the dangers of unethical pursuit of ‘transcendental’ knowledge

Stevenson exposes the hypocrisy

of the emergent victorian middle class by presenting the inevitable moral corruption of ‘austere’ and repressed lifestyle

Stevensons novella is an exposition

of humanitys’s relationship with immorality at a time when new scientific understanding became a catalyst for society to question the role of god in a world of evil

Stevenson creates a microcosm

of the victorian comprise between the private and public self and explores how repressed feelings and ‘concealed pleasures’ are a consequence of the contemporary zeitgeist

Stevenson explores the concept of duality

by conducting a moral audit of victorian society which demanded the adherence to ‘austere’ social pretences but was also fascinated by- and guilty of - immoral acts and violent crime regardless of their class