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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson’s Life. -1850-1894 -Scottish - Very wealthy and high society - Began as engineer, then moved to lawyer, finally writer - Wrote during summer travels with artists and poets to France

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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  1. Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  2. Stevenson’s Life • -1850-1894 • -Scottish • -Very wealthy and high society • -Began as engineer, then moved to lawyer, finally writer • -Wrote during summer travels with artists and poets to France • -Liked to travel, published tour “stories”

  3. Stevenson’s Life • -Met Fanny, American New Woman, 1876 in France • -She was married, two children • -Two years in France, she returned to California, then he followed a year after that • -Married in 1880, he was 29, she was 40 • -Almost died on his journey to meet her

  4. Stevenson’s Work • -Traveling stories • -Novels: Treasure Island, Prince Otto, Jekyll and Hyde, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, The Master of Ballantrea, The Wrong Box, The Wrecker, Catriona, The Ebb-Tide, 2 others unfinished • -Short Stories: New Arabian Knights, The Merry Men, Island Nights’ Entertainment, Fables

  5. In His Time • -Extremely popular • -Traveled a lot • -Wife wrote with him • -Able to live off what he made as an author • -Friends with King Kalakaua of Hawaii • -Very religious growing up • -Father was a pastor, “hard-core” Presbyterian

  6. Time Period • -Medicine growing rapidly • -Evolution • -Freud • -Science over religion • -Gothic mixed with psychological realism • -Book actually inspired some psychological theories later developed

  7. The Novella • -Many drafts, wife didn’t like the first several • -Re-wrote it while he was sick or on drugs • -Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde could be Deacon William Brodie in Scotland • -Science at the time knew there were multiple parts to the human mind, but didn’t know how to put that into words • -Jekyll himself says science will discover more

  8. The Novella • -Much more to it than “good vs. evil” • -Animal instinct vs. civilization • -Not just “split” personalities- several • -TONS of figurative language • -Mixture of gothic and psychology (fascination with both and the possibility that they could exist together) • -High society, meaning of science vs. religion

  9. Today • -The Hulk • -Two-Face • -Superheroes • -”Jekyll and Hyde” saying • -Multiple personality disorder • -”Me, Myself, and Irene” • -Animal instinct, id, ego, superego • -”Evil” buried, but strong

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