STEVENSON'S FANTASTIC WORLD

Abstract

Robert Louis Stevenson’s life was contradictory, full of strange and fateful coincidences and collisions with the border world, where dream and reality intertwined with one another. So his life seems to be more fantastic than the most daring fantasies of any writer. Stevenson tries to reconstruct contradictions of real life by the sublimation through the artistic creativity and to affirm the final victory of good over evil, thus overcoming his own internal problems. Creating heroes with dualistic nature, the writer conveys his anxieties to them, hereby he finds a way out of the agonizing situation. “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” becomes a kind of elixir for Stevenson and a significant work which plays an important role in the development of modern psychology which deals with the problem of dissociative identity disorder.