Gothic Vs Gothic Essay

Although to some level it is ultimately undeniable that The Yellow Wallpaper and The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde represent the gothic genre, it can be viewed as too simplistic because of the complexity within the Gothic genre; both showing clear distinct differences between each other. ‘Dr.J+Mr.H’ explores the Duality of man through the beast like character of Mr. Hyde, with clear conventions of the Classic Gothic. TYW on the other hand representing the modern Gothic, replacing the supernatural with the irrational, which is not seen as monstrous but preferable by the unnamed female protagonist which sees her insanity as a triumph for freedom.
In order to understand this debate, you must have a clear understanding of the Gothic as well as the different conventions between the ‘Classic Gothic’ and the ‘Contemporary Gothic’ because of the genre’s nature of
Throughout the novel Mr.Hyde is represented as an animal being hunted down the same way a fox when a ‘halloa’ is called, he is also described as an ‘ape’ linking directly back to the idea of evolution, making it reasonable where his immense strength comes from. The physical structure and description of his characteristics are not the only techniques in which the supernatural is created by Stevenson, he used the scene of the innocent man getting ‘shattered’ like glass when a ‘hailing’ ‘storm of blows’ was delivered by Hyde to create a lexis field of natural phenomenon’s of incredible magnitude to mirror the effect of his actions being frequent, uncontrollable and impulsive. The relentless strength shown in this scene is clear connotations of the supernatural in a monstrous form which is a clear convention of the classic