In the text of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson depicts a complex power struggle between Dr. Jekyll, a respected individual. within Victorian London society, and Mr. Hyde, a wicked man tempted by criminal impulses, struggling to take total control of their shared body. While Dr. Jekyll proves well-liked by his colleagues, Mr. Hyde is openly hated by the vast majority of those who encounter him, terrified by his frightening nature and cruel actions. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson depicts the rich side of London, including Mr. Utterson and Dr. Jekyll, as respected and appreciated, while showing the poor side as non-existent or cruel. Marxism is a method. of analysis based on the concepts developed by the two German philosophers Karl Marx and Fredrich Engel, centered on the complexity of social relations and a class society. Together, they collaborated their theories to produce works such as The German Ideology (1846) and The Communist Manifesto (1848), and developed the terms "proletariat" and "bourgeois" to describe the working class and the wealthy, segmenting the difference. between their respective social classes. Because of the apparent differences, Marxism asserts that the proletariats and the bourgeoisie are in constant class struggle, working against each other to achieve gain for themselves. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a setting based in various locations. throughout Victorian London, including a variety of areas at different ends of the economic class spectrum. The main characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, represent these opposite ends: Dr. Jekyll's house is located in Soho, on a "dirty street" (Ste...... middle of paper...... d Mr. Hyde, although placed in a context where it would have been difficult to ignore, generally depicts the lower class as non-existent in humanity, ignored in favor of characters higher on the ladder of life. He gives the antagonist a similar focus and appearance on how the poor would live to contrast the "good" of the protagonist, who is well educated, successful and accepted by society, Robert Louis Stevenson failed to achieve. giving the poor of Victorian London society proper representation in the novel, and instead made the appearance of an educated man as one of the only individuals accepted within Victorian society Works Cited "Robert Louis Stevenson Biography. Bio.com, nd Web, April 6, 2014. Robert, Stevenson L. The. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde New York: Dover Publications, 2013. Print..