Hypocrisy of Victorian Society through Characters in Jekyll and Hyde

Utterson

He is a high class lawyer meddling with lower class people

He also meddles in the business of all of his friends which goes agaisnt Victorian society

He snoops through things he is not supposed to

Enfield

He abhors gossip or at least the Victorian society does, but the first chance he gets he begins gossiping about Hyde and his beat down shack.

Jekyll

A high class doctor, but he makes drugs

He also has a dark side that nobody is supposed to see.

He commits crimes, but nobody knows of them.

He gives his will to a lower class fiend, and invites him over regularly.

Hyde

He is the opposite of Hyde's high class victorian life.

He commints heinous crimes that a upper class person is not supposed to.

Thesis

James Lewis Stevenson portrays through the characters in the novella,The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, the hypocrisy of Victorian society by showing that the characters go against key moral codes and do things that are not acceptable by Victorian standards, but each character is supposed to be a perfect Victorian.