Victorian Decadence In, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson consists of Victorian Decadence or Fin de Siècle aspects throughout the story. One aspect of Victorian Decadence is the anti-Romantic belief in original sin and in the fallen man and nature. The omnipresence of evil, lack of health, balance, innocence, and the grotesque can belong with the first aspect, also. An example in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” would be Mr. Utter son’s interest in the fallen man, “But he had an approve tolerance for others….involved in their misdeeds; and any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.” Mr. Utterson was interested in someone else’s sins. He was not the type to look down on others with religion. Another
