Essays about: "Robert Louis Stevenson"

Found 5 essays containing the words Robert Louis Stevenson.

  1. 1. External and Internal Horror Objects : Analysis of the "objects of horror" in H.P Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Samuel Ek; [2023]
    Keywords : Horror; horror objects; mental defeat; Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Robert Louis Stevenson.;

    Abstract : Both Lovecraft and Stevenson have earned their respective fame as horror writers.However, it is interesting to compare their separate approaches to creating fear. The purposeof this essay is to show how there are different kinds of horror objects within the respectivestories of Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. READ MORE

  3. 2. Hey, You Monster : Ideological Representation and Resisting Interpellation in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Jenny Fridh; [2021]
    Keywords : Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Interpellation; Louis Althusser; Ideology;

    Abstract : This essay discusses the representation of Victorian ideologies and interpellation in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. READ MORE

  4. 3. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Romantic Sensibility : Nature and Human Emotion in An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Carl-Ludwig Davidsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Robert Louis Stevenson; An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes; the beautiful; the sublime; the picturesque;

    Abstract : In the latter half of the 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson set off on two journeys through Belgium and France, two travels that were to become the subject of his early travelogues An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. In these two travelogues Stevenson elaborates extensively on depictions of nature, and through these depictions, Stevenson suggests that there exists a special relationship between natural beauty and human emotion. READ MORE

  5. 4. The split human mind and the portrayal of good and evil in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Caroline Hedlund; [2016]
    Keywords : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Robert Louis Stevenson; Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde; Freud; psychology; split human mind; unconscious; good and evil; dualism; Victorian society; morality; the self; soul and psyche; religion.; Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 5. Hyde-ing Between Holmes and Watson An Examination of a Homosocial Bond Through a Freudian Analogy of Jekyll and Hyde

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jenny Appelgren Percival; [2014-10-09]
    Keywords : Sherlock Holmes; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; male homosocial desire; structural model of the psyche; Sigmund Freud; Robert Louis Stevenson;

    Abstract : The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is one of the most famous male friendships in modern literature. Using the two novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s extensive canon about the extraordinary detective and his companion, this essay examines the bond between Holmes and Watson through Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s theories about male homosocial desire. READ MORE