... and create a different body so he could conduct the misdeeds he so greatly desires without detection. "If each could be but housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable". Jekyll finally succeeded in concocting a drug that separated good and evil, and thus Hyde was born. Stevenson uses Hyde to explore the concept of good and evil in many ways including their physical appearance. The physical differences between the two are a metaphor for what happens when the Victorians took drugs; Hyde is mentioned to be comparatively younger than Jekyll, certainly wilder, and completely care free - "liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures;" This quote implies a whimsical sense to Hyde; however, from other descriptions of Hyde, the audience know this is far from the truth. Drugs were at the forefront of the Victorians' minds, not only due to ...

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