Chapter 10
I concealed my pleasures; and that when I reached years of reflection... I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life... I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest.Read in Books4Free →
Hypocrisy and Victorian Repression
From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll's project arises from the strain of maintaining a respectable public face while harboring private appetites — a critique of Victorian moral hypocrisy.
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