Science, Hubris, and Forbidden Knowledge

From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll's experiment is a Faustian/Frankensteinian transgression — mystical chemistry pursued for self-knowledge and self-indulgence.
Chapter 10

'It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man.' The experiment frames morality itself as a chemical problem.

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