Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Science exceeding moral bounds, the creator responsible for the monster's violence, the question of whether the created is separate from its creator

Same year (1890 for Dorian), same theme of Victorian duality and the consequences of separating public virtue from private vice — Dorian externalizes his corruption where Hyde is internal

Gothic monster as a vehicle for late-Victorian anxieties about the boundaries of the civilized self; multiple-narrator structure directly influenced by Jekyll's posthumous-document technique

The 'civilized' European man confronting the atavistic violence within — Kurtz and Hyde both reveal what the colonial/Victorian framework suppresses rather than eliminates

The intellectual who commits violence and must live with its psychological consequences; rationalization of evil as a philosophical system rather than a moral failure

Gothic ambiguity as technique — both works use unreliable narrators and withheld information to generate horror that may be supernatural or psychological