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

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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

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

11 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

12 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)

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

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