Robert Louis Stevenson

repulsive and could not be around him. This is shown after the first encounter Mr. Utterson has with Mr. Hyde and after words, Mr. Utterson thought that “he had a displeasing smile and he gave an impression of an deformity were none was noticeable” (18 Stevenson). The event also shows the reader how Dr. Jekyll has struggled after creating the potion. All of these smaller events were all explained in Dr. Jekyll’s full statement. This event shows the reader how the plot has revolved around Dr.…

This essay will analyse Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Lord Byron’s the “Darkness” in terms of humanity and its animalistic characteristics that lie deep within our species. Stevenson’s novel opens with a description of Mr. Utterson. He is “cold, scanty, […] lean, long, dusty, dreary” (1645) and so on. Most of these adjectives could better describe a hanger than a person. Nevertheless, Utterson is “somehow loveable” (1645) in a way that cannot be…

the mystery through a letter is changed. It is true that the investigation of attorney are interesting at the beginning of the novel, but the story ends up being too linear for the impossibility of knowing the whole story. For this reason, Robert Louis Stevenson gives us a series of clues, but not directly, but through metaphors that is only possible through a careful reading grasp. For example, Hyde always has access to the house of Dr. Jekyll through the back door presents a rusty and…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1886. Robert Stevenson became very popular after the publishing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde one of his finest books (“Robert”). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a story that tells about good and evil. Throughout Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Good vs. Evil is experienced in life through split personality’s, strange actions, and the death of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde split personalities show good vs evil…

The story of Treasure Island was a novel written in the early 1880s by Robert Louis Stevenson and was published by a company in London known as Cassell and Company. The story was inspired by Robert’s step-son, Lloyd Osbourne, when he drew a treasure map with Robert. The map itself inspired Robert to make the story of a boy named Jim Hawkins and his adventure to the location of a long lost treasure that belonged to notorious pirate legend, Captain Flint. Flint and his treasure was inspired by a…

“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” a gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886, is a glimpse back in time to the Victorian era. The novella highlights the Victorian morality and the Victorian model of life. The key features of Victorian morality include a set of moral values pillared in sexual restraints, low tolerance policies on crimes and a strict social code of conduct. Dr. Jekyll is a respected member living in the Victorian society, who abides to all the…

evil tendencies? The novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde establishes and discusses the question of nature versus nurture. The author, Robert Louis Stevenson, prompts the reader to inquire how an individual can determine his or her place on the spectrum of good and evil. To establish the universal struggle between good and evil, Stevenson introduces the character Dr. Jekyll, a scientist who lives in the Victorian era. Restricted by the rigid standards of society, Jekyll hides his…

influence on the outcome of the story. The main themes in a story are a reflection of the social class and the beliefs of the society that the author lived in when writing it. Robert Louis Stevenson explores the idea of the duality of mankind, ethics and morality in his novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson explores the idea of the internal struggle every man has between good and evil and the inclination man has for immoral behaviour. It also conveys to the readers the…

Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is an interesting story set to originally be published around Christmas time as horror stories instead of Father Christmas was popular during the Victorian age. Stevenson’s story however was quite popular for exploring a topic that no other novelist had covered yet in a horror story. Stevenson wrote about the split personality of Dr. Jekyll, who encompassed both himself as the original and the worse qualities that he…

rather exposed” (Stevenson 19). In this instance, Jekyll simply wishes Hyde away rather than putting forth any effort to bring him to justice. He is so fearful that his reputation as a good doctor will be ruined if the fact that he corresponded with Hyde came out, that his morality becomes skewed. He is no longer the good moral physician, but rather a criminal trying to cover for the other half of his identity. John Addington Symonds writes about this in his letter to Robert Louis Stevenson…