Stevenson's Influence On Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on the 13th November 1850. He wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886, with that 40,000 copies of the book were sold in the first six months. This was designed to mirror the Victorian secret and based on good and evil. Stevenson later died in 1894 in Samoa.

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

He obviously loved his father enough to write poems about him, so poetically so it even brings nostalgia to the audience who recall their parents and their childhood with them.

You should comment upon and compare at least two of his poems and describe the tone he writes in the imagery he uses and the poetical techniques he includes to convey his opinions.

he must have fled. And then, why fled? And how? And in that case, can

written an 1886 and has gone down in history as one of the most famous

The opinion and image that most people have of Eros, the god of love in Greek mythology, often reflect the view and representation that people have for love itself. Since love is such a puzzling matter, people quickly form an ambivalent opinion toward Eros. Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson reveal these uncertain feelings toward Eros in their poems directed to the Greek god of love through their diction, allowing readers to notice similarities and differences in their works. Although Bridges and Stevenson expose a level of uncertainty and sympathy toward Eros in their poems, both poets different inquisitive interpretations of Eros divulge their true and differing feelings toward

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Throughout his childhood he was told morbid tales from the Bible, as well as Victorian penny-serial novels that he would carry with him throughout his years and what would place the greatest impact on his writing.[1] In 1886, he published a novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, based on a man with pure intentions, who ends up turning himself into a viscous murderer. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-known doctor and respected man, known for doing numerous acts of kindness and work for charities. However, since he was a young boy, he secretly engaged in wrongful behavior, and from then on, was determined to experiment and find a way to separate

Robert Louis Stevenson was already an established writer when he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in 1885 (Greenblatt 1,676). Stevenson was well known for his children stories, which was very different from the genre of this tale (1,676). The book was an international success at the time of its publication; and like Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker, Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, often shortened to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, remains popular today, in print and in film (1,676). Robert Louis Stevenson used plain language to describe his characters, without the typical elaborate flare that other Victorian writers were known for; and hinted at social issues that were being seen in respectable society. Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland (1,675).

As the author of the most beloved adventure novels of all time, including masterpieces such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, literary genius and famed novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was heavily influenced by his parents, home, environment, and health. Born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, United Kingdom on November 13, 1850, Stevenson was the only child of Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Balfour, who were devoted and ardent members of the Church of Scotland. Stevenson never enjoyed good health; he often suffered from digestive upsets, feverish colds, gastric fever, bronchitis, and pneumonia. The cause of Stevenson’s poor lungs is unknown; it is believed that he inherited his weak lungs from his mother but it is also speculated that he “had an endocrinal problem due to the oddity of his bone structure” (Authors and Artists for Young Adults). Nonetheless, because of Stevenson’s poor health, he was always travelling in search of an environment/climate that would soothe his illnesses, which in turn led to his irregular attendance at school. Thus, Stevenson’s lousy health and his innate wanderlust permitted him to become one of the best adventure novelists of all time. Stevenson’s education was insufficient because of both his health problems and his father’s doubts in an orthodox

Your childhood reflects upon your character as an adult. Because of Bryan Stevenson’s rough childhood in a racially segregated community, he knows the hardships and can connect “close” to the people he is working with. Infact most, criminals have the same background as him. He is not afraid to get close and dig deep into the issue, because he cares about it. This gives him an experience of getting into the criminal’s shoes and seeing all perspectives of the case to serve true justice.

This makes him a very relatable poet, and people like to feel connected to

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Scotland. Being the only son of a famous civil engineer, Stevenson was expected to continue the family tradition, but this was against his wishes for his life. At an early age, he exhibited a yearning to write, and although he could not read until he was seven or eight, he composed stories and dedicated them to his parents and

insight into his life and personality that he is not aware of giving. While the poet

poems still inspires us all and it’s still alive till this very day. One of his most famous work were