Jekyll and Mr. Hyde present two interpretations on similar themes. While Wilde's story is satire and attempts to make fun of Victorian conventions, without serious doom and gloom. However, a major plot in the work concerns the problems Jack experiences because he was dropped off from a train station when he was a child. As a result, Lady Bracknell will not allow Jack to marry Gwendolen because she does not know who his parents are. In this, Wilde tries to address one of the problems with a less serious approach and makes fun of the unreasonable way in which respectability was defined in Victorian society. Stevenson's writing, on the other hand, is more serious and dark, as he shows a character in Mr. Hyde who has a "purpose [that] is all too clear and horrible" (850), as well as, perhaps, addiction . However, one theme that remains throughout the stories is "[t]he innocence of the characters despite their lack of moral sense" (Thienpont 250). The authors don't seem to ask whether the characters are to blame, but rather the concept of external factors that push them to react in a certain way. In Wilde and Stevenson's stories, expectations of respectability in the wealthy class are an important factor in why characters behave in certain ways. This is because the Victorian upper class placed great emphasis on money and certain repressive ideologies. As a result, three important areas where this is shown are the location, the names of the characters and the effect that pressure has on them and how it can make them feel like they have to change characters to feel