STRANGE CASE

OF DR. JEKYLL
AND MR HYDE
Robert Louis Stevenson
 Albert Robert Stevenson 

■ Born in 1850 in Edinburgh to a lighthouse engineers

family.
■ Childhood, nurse, tuberculosis.
■ Studies.
■ Travels.
■ Wife, family, moving back to England.
■ The writing of most of his works.
■ Hawaiian Islands, Later years, depression.
■ Died in 1894, Vailima, Samoa.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Summary

Dr Jekyll is a kind, well-

respected and intelligent
scientist who meddles with
the darker side of science, as
he wants to bring out his
'second' nature. He does this
through transforming himself
into Mr Hyde - his evil alter
ego who doesn't repent or
accept responsibility for his
evil crimes and ways
Form and language
Use of form in the book : Language:

 Onomatopoeia
■ The Gothic
 Powerful verbs
■ Stevenson's choice of  Imagery
London as his setting  Personification
■ First-person perspectives  Simile
 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Themes

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 Movies

1931, Oscar 2003

"If [Bram Stoker's] Dracula leaves one with the sensation of
having been struck down by a massive, 400-page wall of horror,
then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden, mortal jab of an
ice pick" (Stephen King)
Sources: 

■ Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde. London :New English Library, 1974.
■  "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Themes
overview" BBC. Bitesize. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z22x6sg/revision/
1. Accessed 5 October 2022.
■ Daiches, David. "Robert Louis Stevenson". Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep.
2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Louis-
Stevenson. Accessed 5 October 2022.
■ Academy of American Poets. "Robert Louis Stevenson"
https://poets.org/poet/robert-louis-stevenson Accessed 5 October 2022.