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'Jekyll and Hyde': the importance of science and religion in the novella

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I can explain Stevenson’s views on science and religion and how these materialise in the novella.

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Arguably, Stevenson is critical of trangressive scientists. Stevenson plays on the real fears of scientific development and Darwinism in his novella. Stevenson, raised a strict Calvinist, rejected his faith. Calvinism was an evangelical branch of Christianity. Stevenson is arguably very critical of the role Christianity played in the moral and political aspects of society.

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