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How Does Robert Louis Stevenson use literary techniques to illustratethe social, historical and moral elevations he is trying to make in DrJekyll and Mr Hyde?Throughout the novella, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the author RobertLouis Stevenson uses a wide range of literary techniques in a skilfuland sophisticated way to help achieve his effects and perplex his pointscrosswise. Stevensons unique use of language is vital to the success ofthe Novella, with the structural and linguistic devices playing avital part in creating the unusual atmosphere, which makes the Novellaso successful. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde centres upon a conception ofhumanity as dual in nature, although the theme does not emerge fullyuntil the last chapter, when the complete story of Jekyll Hyde human relationship is revealed. Robert Louis Stevenson had a very strictmoral upbringing living in the nineteenth century, where class andsocial standing were very important in such a rigid system. The factthat he had such a reli gious background perhaps creates a link betwixtthe main moral point of good and evil and his disciplined religiousupbringing, the bible teaching the importance of good and evil, andthe sevener deadly sins. He uses a variety of techniques to put acrosshis views across on many social, historical and moral points.Throughout the novella the author gives the readers an insight intothe morality of human nature by using unalike fictitious characters torepresent the double standards of society in the mincing era. Thedifferent language used for each of the main characters in the book isused to emphasise the character and their role in the Novella.Utterson, the lawyer, is described in the opening sentence of the bookcold, scanty, a... ...t that Stevenson had sucha religious background perhaps creates a link between the main moralpoint of good and evil and his disciplined religious upbringing. Thismay have influenced him in his writing, (the bible teaching theimportance of good and evil, and the seven deadly sins). The Gothichorror has been compared particularly to the detective fiction ofSherlock Holmes, with both works being written in the same period ofthe Victorian era. It is a testimony to Stevensons inventiveness as awriter that this novella has had this independent existence over ahundred years subsequently the first book was published. Because of theuniqueness of the novella and the fact that such a wide range ofliterary techniques have been used, it is no surprise that, thestrange trip of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is one of the most famousworks of horror fiction of all time.