Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Throughout his childhood he was told morbid tales from the Bible, as well as serialized Victorian novels that he would carry with him into his years and which would have the greatest impact on his writing.[1] In 1886 he published a novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, based on a man with pure intentions, who ends up turning into a viscous murderer. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-known physician and respected man, known for performing numerous acts of kindness and working for charities. However, even as a boy, he secretly engaged in illicit behavior and from then on was determined to experiment and find a way to separate his good side from his bad. What would then be known as Mr. Hyde. Mr. Edward Hyde is described as a hideous, humiliating, almost creature-like being, known for his murders in the city. Hyde is the dark side of Jekyll, released into the world through his consciousness and a potion that would soon turn Jekyll into Hyde forever. The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented technological advances and a time when European nations changed the world with their growing empires.[2] Through the use of these characters and the newly founded theoretical ideas of this time; Stevenson reflects the modern “social” challenges that were occurring in this century. In Britain, during the mid-nineteenth century, Conservative Party leader Benjamin Disreali argued that traditional aristocratic politics of preferential attention to those beneath them made the Conservatives the natural party of social reform.[3 ] And subsequently, Europeans begin to adopt a more conservative approach to society. This......middle of paper......u/~teuber/stevensonbio.html.“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Analysis of the Main Characters. Spark Notes.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jekyll/canalysis.html.“Evolution and Theodicy.” Interdisciplinary documentation on religion and science.http://www.disf.org/en/documentation/08-Darwin_Hunter.asp.“Evolution of Man”. Theoretical Concepts.http://www.allaboutscience.org/evolution-of-man.htm.Hatcher, Jeffrey. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”http://repassets.s3.amazonaws.com/studyguides/jekyll_and_hyde_sg.pfd.“Presentation of the Novella.” Glencoe.http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/dr_jekyll.pfd.Levack, Brian, Edward Muir, Meredith Veldman, and Michael Masa. “Social reform”. The West: Encounters and Transformations, 2nd ed. (2007): 719-747.Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (2002): 5-64.