Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Essay

Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was an only child that inherited his mother weak lungs which affected him through his whole life. He attended school at the age of seven but it was irregular because of the health issues he had. In his early life he went to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a career path in engineering to help his father with the lighthouse business. But he wasn't doing well in that school and was known for the horrible way he dressed and his behavior. Stevenson really didn’t like that career so he started to study law. While studying law he went to France and met some writers and poets that led him to really pursue his dream of being a writer. Stevenson was an inspirational writer by the way he portrayed himself by following his wits , his physical capacity(books he wrote that were successful) and mentality(what he was thinking) Stevenson throughout his twenty years of being a writer wrote essay, travel writing, short stories, novels and romance. The was he began to write was by training himself to mimic William Hazlitt and Daniel Defoe writing style. After receiving a degree in law, he began to travel around France and that's where he met a girl named Fanny Osbourne who

But the two most successful books that he wrote was “Treasure Island” and “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. These two things were his biggest success. But he also wrote a lot of other things that were good. He based all his life in all the adventures he did throughout the years. But when he moved to Hyeres in South France he then suffered hemorrhage which led to him being stuck in bed, not be able to speak, and not being able to write. All he could do is write short verses. What he wrote in these short verses that were meant for a children's book named “A Child Garden Verses”. This was the start of inspiration to create called the “Black Arrow” which was published in