It has been argued that “Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” was violently critical of Victorian society. In the bourgeois-dominated Nineteenth century, respectability and hypocrisy naturally go hand in hand, two sides of the same coin. And it is true that this self-confident, domineering society had a tendency to forget about its darker sides: abject poverty, pauperisation of disenfranchised social classes by the wealthy in cahoots with the powerful, colonial exploitation of so-called inferior races, respectability of marriage coupled with the generalisation of prostitution… If at the core, “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” is the tale of the dual nature of man being suppressed by the harsh Calvinist religion, an allegory on the effet it has on the
