The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer during the Victorian England time period in London. Stevenson writes of his two main characters Dr. Jekyll who is a wealthy educated man and Mr. Hyde who is of the working class. What is most important to learn from this novel is how the cultural literacy in the novel pertains to today’s society.
Cultural literacy is a term that refers to the ability to understand and participate in a given culture. In the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde after seeing the window Mr. Enfield who is a distant cousin and lifelong friend of Mr. Utterson who is an old friend of Jekyll, and his lawyer
