External Influences on the Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson was a familiar title to me and before reading it I believed it was knowledgeable about the history. I knew that Dr. Jekyll was an intelligent man experimenting with the idea of ​​creating a more powerful version of himself that would release his deepest inhibitions. Furthermore, I believed that the people of the city were not fully aware of Mr. Hyde's presence, but only that there was a monster running around the city creating chaos. The citizens would not have been directly affected by Mr. Hyde and I certainly would never have thought that Mr. Hyde was capable of murder. Furthermore, I thought that when people referred to another person as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, they could go from being nice one moment to being irrational and short-tempered the next. I never believe the cliché refers to one's physical aggression or anger. Finally, before reading the novel I believed that the novel was an indication of the times and medical illnesses that were present at the time Stevenson wrote it. After completing the book, I learned that while in some respects I had the right idea about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the novel was far more insightful than I had ever imagined. Not only was Dr. Jekyll an intelligent man, but he was very popular in his town and respectable in his society. Others assumed he was an average man who was being blackmailed by Mr Hyde for some misdeed he had committed in his early years and that was their only connection..