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    1) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) Life... + Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, + The son of an engineer, he originally intended to follow hi father’s profession but because of ill health he studied Lav at Edinburgh University, By 1875, however, he f to become a writer iad decided + At university, Stevenson cultivated a Bohemian lifestyle bat the severe Scottish climate, his bad health and his love for travel made him spend long periods abroad. + InFrance in 1876 he met his fature wife Fanny Osbourne. LM + After (ip to California he returned to Europe, settling a Bourne:uouth in the south of England, where he became vt Gato Pa Na friends »ch Henry Jame tn Sots or Pet Gy + In 1888 Stevenson left with his family for the South Seas and fin settled in Samoa + Stevens: died in 1894, while working on what is considered his unfinished masterpiece, Weir Her wand vis 1 tn 1878 ir Jnland Voyage appeared, describing a canoe tour in Belgium and France and a year er To seth Donkey th evs deriptin oat in rane with is donkey + By ths me he had also published several short stories, travel pieces and essays + In 1883 Stevenson published is first navel, the popular adventure story Taare lend + In 1886 he published his famous short novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde «This was followed by his Scottish romances Kidnapped (1886), Catriona (1898) and The Master of Ballantrae (1889), Foeas on the text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The plot The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is set in London, thot resembles igh, Conscious of a duality in human m bles that of Edinburgh. Cons Dr Jekyll discovers @ EE cate physical form and personality that he calls re ios to take over Jekyll life and the drug loses sh the grim atmosphere closely mature, a mixture of good and evil, drug that can divide these sides, ilsed and savage trail iain but alo eating his ei stint Mr Hyde. This yersonality, which Jeb yyll assun Eryn old nan. Gat SBE "S power to restore the doctor's ¢ Syl lei oat Hd, which means killing himself in the P y Sareed ‘eveson said that the story came Pec, he sat down and rapidly produce ivilised charact 1 dream, Excited by its Gothic e form of a ‘convinced him that he ever, his wile 273 ctorian Age (1837-1901) ein 5 : dle hs a 265 should have writen something moe than a ‘haror ston’ and gid cont Should have deat with human nature in general. Stevenson [agg FE agreed with his wife's opinion: the first manuseript was burnt in feo 1 the fie and a second version was produced which was to become a popular success. Different perspectives strange The story of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is told the ; from several different points of view: his lawyer and friend prJekyll’s fir Uterson, his distant relative Enfield, Dr Lanyon and finally Dr Jekyll himselt ‘The accounts of the firs three are gathered together in the first part of the book almost as if they were witnesses ata trial. Each is, however, only a parti ersion ofthe events that arise fom Dr Jekyll’ exp these accounts Jelyll appears #7 aiTeinecB Hee aaaann until the last part of the story that Jekyll himself becomes the _ ‘>, natrator in a final confession before he kills Hyde and himsele a In this way, the story moves from the atmosphere of a mystery tale to a profounder level of confession and self-examination, as Jekyll explores the hidden destructive forces in himself, The theme of the double, already present in some famous stories by Poe, most notably in Wiliam Wilson’ (1845), dominates the story of The Strange Case of Dr Jeiyll and Mr Hyde. Influenced by his Calvinist upbringing, in particular by the belief that we all have in us the potential for ev, Stevenson considered evil to be a real presence in human nature. Indeed, Jekyll ison the surface a respectable man but, he says has always been ‘committed to a profound luplicity of life’ and has always contained within himself a potential for profound wickedness, However, because of his high aspirations, he has been obliged to split ‘those provinces of foo and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature This evil potential he eventually releases in the shape of Mr Hyde, in which it appear in uncontrolled form. Indeed, an interesting aspect of the story isthe way that the strict morality that informs Jekyll’ aspirations in society obliges him to completely deny his instincwal sid, whose hidden presence therefore grows More oppressive. When through his experiments hei erenually able to become Mr yd. Jel oc somehow liberated and experiences ‘an unknown but not an innocent feedom of ahs cou at though his civilised morally upright persona were actually a burden or privon, A paper of cs have pointed ot tht Th Song Ga fr yl and ir Te aes ea fact that its dangerous to try to completely suppress certain cements of humas naren aha In terms ofthe time it was writen, Stevenson's story goes beyond a simple mort sigan notions of good aad evil Infact fe net aee ee ae aaa publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution which try to confront the problem efin inside the cvlised, socially disciplined self In social and idelogiel ery suppression of instinct 214 iferentiate scientifically between levels judices. As a result, physical appearance ple, is presented as a degenerate, rrian reader would probably see as s ots oe evolution, reflecting social, class and racial stature took on a moral connotation. Hyde, for Physically deformed being, These are terms which the igns of a criminal ‘nature’, he Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) Jekyll’ first experiment following extract is taken from the last section of the book. After explaining his theory of the ity of human nature, Dr Jekyll recounts the first time he took the ‘tincture’, the chemical aration that changes him. texts What do you think Dr Jekyll will fee! like immediately offer drinking the tincture? Now rea! and listen to Dr Jekyll’s own account. i caliente hs Thad long since ! prepared my tincture; I purchased? at once, from a firm of wholesale * quantity of a particular salt, which I knew, from my experiments, to be the last

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