Essays on Robert Louis Stevenson
As I examine the role of the double in Victorian Gothic fiction, I will be focusing on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Gothic literature is a genre of writing, first generated by Horace Walpole in 1764 with his...
I will be discussing three poems of which Robert Louis Stevenson composed and will be identifying how the poetic techniques used throughout his poems create their themes. These themes vary from loneliness, being concerned with nature and the seasons, and dedication. Robert Louis Stevenson was of Scottish descent born on the 13th of November, 1850,...
Robert Louis Stevenson’s sickness as a child influenced his relationships with his father and nanny, experiences of living in Samoa and his journey to California, and continuous themes of identity and complexity of a character throughout his writing all contribute to his fame as a multi-talented writer of his time inspiring later authors and novels....