The lesson formed behind the character of Jekyll/Hyde is that the more you repress the more likely those repressed feelings build up until you eventually boil over and blow up in a sense on top of the idea that the demands of society were so great Jekyll needed to become an entirely new person just to be himself. Hyde was a representation of Jekyll’s repressed desires and when Jekyll tried to bottle Hyde up he only became more violent and volatile. Stevenson believed that the society would consume itself with ridiculous rules until it was destroyed, while his novella was widely read for the horror that could be lurking in everyone it was more a statement on what society was as a whole and that it created it’s own
The lesson formed behind the character of Jekyll/Hyde is that the more you repress the more likely those repressed feelings build up until you eventually boil over and blow up in a sense on top of the idea that the demands of society were so great Jekyll needed to become an entirely new person just to be himself. Hyde was a representation of Jekyll’s repressed desires and when Jekyll tried to bottle Hyde up he only became more violent and volatile. Stevenson believed that the society would consume itself with ridiculous rules until it was destroyed, while his novella was widely read for the horror that could be lurking in everyone it was more a statement on what society was as a whole and that it created it’s own