Victorian Religion and Science
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- Created on: 06-04-18 21:14
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- Victorian Religion and Science
- Victorian society
- Christianity - strong influence
- evangelism
- taught all people are natural sinful, and individuals seek forgiveness from God.
- living to a strict moral and religious code
- evangelism
- Character - Jekyll: critical of his own sinfulness
- thinks of sine as "the doom and burden of our life"
- he creates Hyde in attempt to get rid of his "extraneous evil"
- Christianity - strong influence
- Darwin's theory of evolution
- 1800s - Christians taught that God created every specie to be perfectly adapted to its environment.
- Genesis - humans made in God's image and different from all other animals
- some scientists argued that species evolved over time
- Darwin's theory = 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859
- book claimed all species evolved from common ancestors through natural selction
- then wrote a book on how we share a common ancestor with apes
- book claimed all species evolved from common ancestors through natural selction
- Darwin went against the Christian idea that man's nature was different from other animals
- unsettling idea that there nay be an animalistic side to everyone
- 1800s - Christians taught that God created every specie to be perfectly adapted to its environment.
- Victorian society
- Stephenson used this idea in the novel
- hyde is decried as the "animal with" Jekyll
- Hyde is less shorter than Jekyll - less evolved version of Jekyll
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