How effectively does Stephenson create a sense of mystery and intrigue and introduce important clues in the first chapter of the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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How effectively does Stephenson create a sense of mystery and intrigue and introduce important clues in the first chapter of the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the novella Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the time Victorian London was a terrible place to live in, for instance, London was riddled full of prostitution. Most of London was dilapidated because there was no sanitation system so London had a terrible stench to it. It was smoggy because of the factories and there was a great deal of of child cruelty. Children as young as five would have to work in appalling conditions just in order to eat. There was crime because back then the police were unreliable, drunk and they weren't introduced until 1829, and there were major unsolved crimes like Jack the Ripper, but on the positive side etiquette was seen as important. We can see in this by the way Dr Utterson behaves, but unfortunately the lower class as you will discover later on in the novella tend to take etiquette less to account

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