Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein and Confessions of a Justified

The Gothic Novels of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein and Confessions of a justify Sinner The word Gothic, taken from a Germanic tribe, the Goths, stood firstly for Germanic and accordingly mediaeval. It was introduced to fiction by Horace Walpole in Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story, and was used to key out its mediaeval setting. As more novelists adopted this Gothic setting phantasm and gloomy castles on high, treacherous mountains, with supernatural howling in the blank other characteristics of the Gothic Novel could be identified. The most dominant characteristic seems to be the unvarying battle between the good and the dyed side of the human soulfulness and how that, given a chance, the dark side of human nature leave alone gradually develop, through the actions of the character in question, until it has engulfed the good, and also raises the theme of trauma and isolation. Other keynotes of Gothic Novels seem to be the misuse or abuse of technology. For exampl e, knowledge is used to create new beings, the characters turning against or abusing nature and/or God, where the character may take on the role of God, the forbidden draw play of evil, the thrill of the kill, and death. The novels Frankenstein, Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Confessions of a Justified Sinner all accept important truths about human nature and mankind. By looking into these ternion texts, I am going to explore exactly how they fit or do not fit into the various interpretations of Gothic I have place out. The two most prominent themes in Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde are those of the misuse of technologyand the dark side of man and all its attractions. These two themes are, in fact, directly cogitate with each other as it is as a r... ... Making monstrous. Frankenstein, criticism, theory. Manchester University Press, 1991. Boyd, Stephen. York Notes on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Longman York Press, 1992. Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley. Her Life, her Fiction, her Mons ters. Methuen. New York, London, 1988. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. Edited with an entryway and notes by Maurice Hindle. Penguin books, 1992 Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange baptismal font of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New YorkDover Publishing, Inc., 1991. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 1886. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories. Harmondsworth Penguin,1979. 27-97. Svilpis, J.E. The Mad Scientist and Domestic Affection in Gothic Fiction. Gothic Fiction Prohibition/Transgression. Ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York Ams, 1989.