I will also discuss the meaning behind the stories and the effect it has on the reader. I will include historical, social and cultural knowledge of the Victorian era and compare this to The Body Snatchers as both mystery and gothic stories. In this essay I will explore Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as a mystery and a gothic story. The issues within the book created a whole new genre in the nineteenth century for such books including The Body Snatchers and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which can also be categorised into this genre. The book, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde raises issues of and supports the concept of the dual nature of man, Victorian hypocrisy, the bestial nature of man and the experimentation with science and drugs. They can be considered as novels which look at the darker side of a persons capabilities, this was a new concept to the Victorians in the 19th Century. In the era these novels were written, they were the first in their kind in terms of the gothic genre and as mysterious texts where the turn of events or the characters behaviour was not predictable. They allow the reader to become captivated and absorbed within the text so that they can find out the intriguing nature of the novel, coming across as the story unfolds via clues and hints as to what twists are involved in the plot and characters to unveil the mystery. The novels Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written in 1885, and The Body Snatchers, written in _ can be seen as novels with a gothic genre as well as mystery stories.
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