Robert Louis Stevenson

was the subject of many novels and scientific journals published during the second half of the 19th century, many of which went on to become quite popular. Amongst the most famous of these works is Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, which depicts an individual suffering from a personality split and extreme impulses towards evil. Even to a modern reader who has never picked up a psychology text, Jekyll’s and Hyde’s mental instability is painfully obvious. However, it…

There is both a dark and a light side to everyone. Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th century Scottish writer who is well known for his novel “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. This spine tingling novel was published in 1886, having an immediate success and helped cement Stevenson’s reputation. This very suspenseful and thrilling novel takes one through the genius mind of a doctor whose experiment helps expose his dark side. Throughout the story, one realizes that to every person there…

“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two” (61). This quote is from the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. This quote clearly demonstrates the theme of the book. It shows how the concept of good and evil is the predominant idea stated. Dr. Jekyll is your mad scientist type of character, he loves to experiment and sometimes his curiosity may be lurking in the wrong fields of science. One day, he comes up with…

The form of addiction presented in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde presents the reader with a theme of addiction to enhance the more straightforward good versus evil motif in the novella. Dr. Jekyll’s addiction presents a lure to the elixir which changes his previous Victorian gentleman status and seems to isolate him from this previous being. The alteration of him is explored throughout the story as the nature of Dr. Jekyll changes once Mr. Hyde begins to…

beginning of time, a battle between good and evil has been occurring. It may be between people or within. This topic is elaborated on in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, written by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 and died on December 3, 1894. He wrote “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” which was published on January 5, 1886. This book describes a horrific tale of…

this type of writing is the great author by the name of Robert Louis Stevenson. In his writings, he is known to awaken emotions in his audience by the words he has written on the page. To do this, Stevenson uses the techniques of mood, figurative language, and the narrator to force the reader into a set of perceptions in order to further intensify the emotional fulfillment in his writings. One of the most prominent techniques of influence Stevenson utilizes is his use of mood and setting in each…

Setting portrays a character’s inner personality. Robert Louis Stevenson explores this in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jekyll’s complex household juxtaposes his relationship with his counterpart, Hyde. Hyde’s simplistic house entrance, with one door, demonstrates the only way for Jekyll to transform into Hyde (through the drug), but also suggests and foreshadows the inability for Jekyll to stop the transformation from occurring, once he runs out of salt for his drug. The overall setting, of a…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson. He wrote it in 3 days, based it off of a nightmare he had had one night, and it is in the setting of Victorian London. It was written because of what made a persons character. In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses imagery, diction, and details to create a threatening mood. The threatening mood of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde can be shown through imagery. One is that ¨He broke out into a great flame…

the opportunity to analyze and appreciate this story that talked about the issues developing within the relationship Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Reading the novel was extremely pleasing and entertaining for me especially the Victorian diction that Robert Stevenson had used within the novel which was quite interesting. There were many questions that I had while reading the novel which was how the social class that defined each of the characters played any hand…

Did you ever notice that people have more than one personality? Well, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, even the main characters Jekyll and Hyde represent duality in humans. The novel was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 and was published on December 5, 1886 by Longmans, Green & co. in England. It is about this man, Dr.Jekyll, who has evil desires he cannot fulfill, instead he wants to remove the evil part of him completely, he thinks he finally developed a formula that…