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Religion and science are central themes in the novella as it explores the ideas of creation and moral and scientific responsibility

Duality is revealed in the novella’s setting of London as Stevenson presents the city with contrasting descriptions where affluent streets exist directly next to areas of degradation and poverty Lanyon’s and Jekyll’s documents reveal that Jekyll had secretly developed a potion to allow him to separate the good and evil aspects of his personality. He was thereby able at will to change into his increasingly dominant evil counterpart, Mr. Hyde. While the respectable doctor initially had no difficulty in returning from his rabid personality, he soon found himself slipping into Mr. Hyde without recourse to his drug. He temporarily stopped using his potion, but, when he tried it again, Mr. Hyde committed murder. After that, it took a vast amount of potion to keep him from spontaneously becoming Mr. Hyde. Unable to make any more of the drug because of an unknown but apparently crucial impurity in the original supply, Jekyll soon ran out of the drug. Indeed, he took the last of it to write a confession before becoming Hyde permanently. Legacy and adaptations There is an axe in the theatre," continued Poole; "and you might take the kitchen poker for yourself."Many novels from the 19th century examined moral, ethical, and social themes and it also reflected the Victorian era's interest in the inner workings of the human psyche:

Stevenson also depicts other characters as suppressing some aspect of themselves, such as Utterson, Lanyon and Enfield The far greater proportion of the building was occupied by the theatre, which filled almost the whole ground story and was lighted from above , and by the cabinet, which formed an upper story at one end and looked upon the court . A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs. There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar. All these they now thoroughly examined. Each closet needed but a glance, for all were empty, and all, by the dust that fell from their doors, had stood long unopened. The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of the surgeon who was Jekyll's predecessor; but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of further search, by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance. Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyll, dead or alive. Ay, ay," said the lawyer. "My fears incline to the same point. Evil, I fear, founded—evil was sure to come—of that connection. Ay, truly, I believe you; I believe poor Harry is killed; and I believe his murderer (for what purpose, God alone can tell) is still lurking in his victim's room. Well, let our name be vengeance. Call Bradshaw." What, what? Are you all here?" said the lawyer peevishly. "Very irregular, very unseemly; your master would be far from pleased ." Foul play!" cried the lawyer, a good deal frightened and rather inclined to be irritated in consequence. "What foul play? What does the man mean?"It permeated all forms of art and was seen as a reaction to the "Victorian crisis of faith", which meant people began to question organised religion and its role in their lives