... Dr. Henry Jekyll, soon becomes both suspicious and worried about Jekyll's mysterious scientific experiments. Stevenson also taps into the fears and concerns of people living in the Victorian age; using topics such as poverty, death, murder and desperation. Stevenson's novel links with other 19th century Gothic novels, such as 'On the Origin of Species', one of many books which tried to explain the theory that mankind was, in fact, descended from apes ('the beast in man.') Krafft-Ebing's 'Pyschopathia Sexualis', published in 1886, attempted to analyse the topic of sexual desires. In this novel, Mr Utterson is presented a largely unexciting man, 'cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse' but also as a 'somehow lovable' man. Utterson represents the perfect Victorian gentleman, he can be described as a responsible, modest man. He also seems to be quite a caring person, as this quotes shows, 'the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.' ...

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