Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Gothic Novel

Romantic Romantic elements Existentialism – reason to exist Childhood/innocence Stopping/reflecting – enjoying life Byronic hero – mysterious, nameless guilt

Gothic Gothic elements Weather – wind, clouds, fog, thunder, lighting Supernatural Lots of emotion – fear, terror, sorrow, guilt Ancient tales Mysterious/unknown places Women in distress Monotony of gloom and horror – footsteps, wind, hard rain Houses beyond repair Late night aspect Gigantic, enormous, large

Frankenstein Written by Mary Shelley in 1816 Subtitled “The Modern Prometheus” Criticism that she didn’t/couldn’t write such a horrifying ghost story Monster = Victor’s feelings externalized A doppelganger – double/second self

Frankenstein Romantic – nature aspect, monster and feels safe in nature, Victor returns to nature, both feel isolated Gothic – cold, fog, ice, isolation The summer Frankenstein is written is the coldest recorded

Mary Shelley 1797 – born daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, both prominent writers 1814 – Mary meets Percy Bysshe Shelly, they leave for France 1816 – Mary gives birth to William, begins writing Frankenstein as a novella, encouraged by Percy to create novel

Frame Tale More engaging, listener embodies reader, makes it seem more realistic Wraps ordinary story in “ghost” story Makes story more credible, believable, verisimilitude Provides didactic function – instruction and entertainment Universalizes story

Correlation to Birth/Gestation Confinement – laying in for birth Novel took 9 months to write, takes place over 9 months (pages of novel) “Dilation” of novel – dilation of cervix during birth Mary had four miscarriages before 25 which almost killed her

Themes and Allusions The dangerous pursuit of knowledge Prometheus (gives fire to man, painful – liver pecked out daily) Adam and Eve - eat and suffer the consequences (childbirth) Paradise Lost – “And now with the world before me” Plato’s Symposium – “we are unfashioned creatures” Globular man, split

Motifs and Symbols Lack of mothers Meaning of names Lightning/storm (weather) Texts/books Fire Nature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 Significance of names Jekyll = “I kill” Hyde = hiding Jekyll says he can “be rid of Hyde” whenever he wants Tragic flaw – Jekyll lets Hyde continue to take over Will uses word “disappearance” to describe Jekyll going away

Unreliable Narrator Utterson Narrates novella, receive all info through him Trusted with secrets and wills Reader does not get details because Utterson does not know everything Inquisitive (plays Sherlock)

Themes and Symbols Doppelganger – Jekyll and Hyde Symbols – night, houses, documents, cane Themes – duality of man, consequences of the pursuit of knowledge