How Does Robert Louis Stevenson use literary techniques to illustrate

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Scotland. He was a 19th century writer notable for novels such as Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses imagery, diction, and details to create an ominous mood.

The Gothic fiction novel “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, is a novel about a man torn by the desire to separate the good and evil inside people. The plot beholds a scientist who finds a way to literally separate his good from his evil by drinking a potion. The plot picks up on the Victorian hypocrisy that crippled people into being society’s idea of ‘good’ and the shallow nature of the Victorians and how they judged character by appearance. At this particular era classes still reigned, so this meant that reputation was still more important than anything, and if being ‘respectable’ meant suppressing inner desires or altering the person you were and having to live with that, then

the hypocrisy in man. This is because Mr. Hyde is a part of Dr. Jekyll

This story is also a way for Stevenson to have a go at hypocroisy and

Stevenson's Use of Literary Techniques in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Lanyon is portrayed as being innocent in the novel. The fact that Lanyon refers to Jekyll’s scientific ideas as “balderdash” and “too fanciful” suggests that these ideas are too bizarre and out there, this perhaps may be suggesting that Lanyon is a very almost “by the book” sort of person and the fact that these “fanciful” ideas proposed by Jekyll causes him to refrain from being friends suggests his moral behaviour and perhaps his innocence for wanting to stay out of this “devilish” mans “balderdash”. Similarly, the quote, “I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away”, this demonstrates that Lanyon has seen this alto-ego and would rather die than live with this. Perhaps Stevenson is emphasising Lanyon’s

with him again. Also in the later Dr Jekyll wrote that he was going on

When a family member dies, they usually leave behind a will, property, or money to give to a loved one. In joint families, situations like these provoke arguments amongst the family members; all for the greed of wealth. Similarly, in the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson, David has been out finding his place in the world. He returns, as a man, to claim his rightful inheritance from his father’s death. For the greed of wealth, Davis’s uncle gets him kidnapped. On his journey to get back his rights, David meets Alan and they become best friends. David, the archetypal youth, and Alan, the dashing rouge, both exemplify character archetypes through their speech and actions.

Bryan Stevenson was born on November 14, 1959 in Milton, Delaware. His father, Howard Carlton Stevenson, Sr., had grown up in Milton, Delaware as well. His father left the area as a teen because there had been no colored high school nearby (Stevenson, 2014). He later returned with Bryan’s mother, Alice Gertrude Stevenson. Both parents would commute to the northern part of the state for work. His dad worked at a General Foods processing plant as a lab technician. His mother had a civilian job at an Air Force bar, she was a bookkeeper at Dover Air Force Base and became an equal opportunity officer. Stevenson has two siblings: an older brother Howard, Jr. and a sister Christy. As a child, Stevenson dealt with segregation and its legacy. He spent

This essay will focus on how Robert Louis Stevenson presents the nature of evil through his novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Using ideas such as duality, the technique used to highlight the two different sides of a character or scene, allegories, an extended metaphor which has an underlying moral significance, and hypocrisy; in this book the Victorians being against all things evil but regularly taking part in frown able deeds that would not be approved of in a ‘respectable’ society. This links in with the idea of secrecy among people and also that evil is present in everyone. The novel also has strong ties and is heavily influenced by religion. Stevenson, being brought up following strong

The city of London proved to be the sole dominant location in the 1800’s during the Victorian era in this novel. As the story unfolds in the classic literature novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” written by Robert Louis Stevenson, the magnificent city of London becomes a darker and mysterious location. The powerful city of London embodied the freedom and solitude required for the antagonist of the story, Mr. Hyde to hide his wicked behavior from the society as a whole. According to the history of the Victorian age, “Traditional ways of life were fast being transformed into something perilously unstable and astonishingly new” (1049). The population in England was growing at an astounding rate, illustrating the transition

Stevenson discovered many themes that interested Victorian readers, one of which was the battle between “good versus evil”. Good being Dr Jekyll as he suffers through out the story trying to get rid of the evil creative Hyde. This theme shows the idea that everyone has a good and evil side to their personality. In addition the theme of rich and poor is also shown as we learn that Hyde’s mysterious dwelling is run down and neglected. In contrast Jekyll’s home is extremely well kept, majestic and beautiful.

Stevenson's Use of Literary Techniques in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

There are many different ways to attracting a person to a book, and one may ask what those different ways might be. Although an author can attract a reader based on the title of a book, or the opening sentence, but a good book uses literary devices such as figurative language, diction, syntax and much more which is all based off of style. In the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, style is used throughout the whole book and contains on a lot of details which makes the novel both compelling and pleasurable to read.

Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is another novel that took real attention in the people of the Victorian period. He became pretty known when he created and publish this novel and achieved great success. It was about a dedicated scientist, Dr. Jekyll, who had two different personalities and perspectives, split in the sense that good and evil lies in the same human. Following this, he made a portion, drank the substance and transformed himself into a hideous monster, Hyde. Mr. Utterson is a lawyer who helps to solve this case, in fact, he is the focused character in the story. After all, this novel portraits that science had an important role in this era. Meaning that all the scientific knowledge was presented in that time. Although, in those times, England had a gloomy atmosphere and was surrounded by clouds just like in the novel. And there are some breakthroughs in science that are still relevant in actual times. But, social behaviors led the upper class to demonstrate double identity in the Victorian period. This story can be interpreted as examining the duality of human