Literary Devices In Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

Literary Devices in Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde

In the novel, The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde , Robert Louis Stevenson uses multiple literary devices in the novel and the one literary device used a lot was the similes. The author uses similes to bring the true meaning into the novel and help the audience understand what they are reading. Furthermore, Stevenson used a simile to describe a neighborhood to show that the neighborhood can catch anybody’s eye, “ Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its din-gy neighborhood, like a fire in a forest…,” (Stevenson page 4-5). The audience will get the image of what’s happening in the context and the image will help her imagine the

Also, the author can use similes in a different way to show that the text can be inferred as something else or a particular person is not something people assume to be. Utterson kept on hearing a bunch of noise on the way back home and realizes that the sound is not a man, “ It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut,” (Stevenson 6). The reader will understand that the sound was not a man and that the sound was something else. This is why the simile will help the reader understand the text better. Similarly, Stevenson uses similes to grab the attention of the reader to show that women are wild and uncontrolled to give the reader a true meaning behind the text. The women grabbing onto the men acting wild and the men tried hard to get the women off, “ … we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were wild as harpies,” (Stevenson 7). The reader will understand that simile was used to show the comparison that the women are wild as harpies and the text will help the reader imagine what might be happening to the men and on how hard they tried to take the women off. The text will help the reader understand that the