She even wonders if her naked body would be a "sight [her] master would care to see" (Martin 54). The connection is strong, but inappropriate at the time. In other words, Martin presents the parallel story to inwardly point out the double-life and homosexual implications of Stevenson's novel.
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the entire story revolves around the entitled gentlemen - the pinnacles of the Victorian society. The novel introduces Dr. Jekyll as "M.D.,D.C.L, LL.D., F.R.S.," and Mr. Utterson as a lawyer (Stevenson 13). The "great Dr. Lanyon" lives in "th[e] citadel of medicine" (Stevenson 14). Their professions are especially respected. These high class gentlemen have to uphold to their titles and images of righteousness and self-control. These expectations dictate them to be public and civilized figures, sometimes necessarily actors. They have to outwardly uphold to these ideals to keep their "reputation under shelter" (Stevenson 63). Hence, they cannot express their emotions or dependence. In Stevenson's novel, these men are not married and dependent on women in every way. However, with this repression come the possibilities of "the primitive duality of man" as they, like everyone, have privates and potentially scrupulous lives (Stevenson 59). Also, these restraints imply certain sexual orientations were repressed, as well as violent, immoral actions. Hyde/Jekyll embodies of the separate lives lived by the Victorian gentlemen. Physically and symbolically, Hyde exemplifies the freedom repressed in Jekyll, anger, emotions, and the exploits of his "vicarious depravity" (Stevenson 63). The Victorian hypocritical expectations spark the conflicts of trying to satisfy both a high standard public image and a normal individual life.
Upheld to the societal ideals, Jekyll does not recognize his own ways of expressing power as disagreeable behavior: "It was sometimes his way - the master's, that is - to write his orders on a sheet of paper and throw it on to the stair " (Stevenson 37).
