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Using the text “The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” examine Stevenson’s representation of evil and how this reflects both his and modern day society
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Using the text "The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" examine Stevenson's representation of evil and how this reflects both his and modern day society Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. From the beginning of his life he was sickly. Through much of his childhood he was attended by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known as 'Cummy' in the family circle. She told him morbid stories about the Covenanters (the Scots Presbyterian martyrs), read aloud to him Victorian penny-serial novels, Bible stories, and the Psalms, and drilled the catechism into him, all with his parents' approval. Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious son expounded on religious dogma. Stevenson inevitably reacted to the morbidity of his religious education and to the stiffness of...
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