The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Utilitarianism and Evangelicalism
Perkins, an associate professor of English at Prince George's Community College in Maryland, examines how The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reflects the influence of two important ideological forces in Victorian England: utilitarianism and Evangelicalism
Two ideologies, utilitarianism and Evangelicalism, shaped the customs and mores of Victorian society in England during the nineteenth century. In Victorian People and Ideas, Richard D. Altick analyzes the impact of these two forces on Victorians, concluding "together they were responsible for much that was unappealing—to some Victorians as to us—in the age's thought and manners ... Both left their ineradicable imprint upon the whole of the Victorian period." They also left their mark on the literature of the age. In his classic tale The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr....
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