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Late Victorian Gothic fictions ‘encode an anxiety about “otherness”, about the possibility of a dual self, where the externally moral individual masks a primitive “other” within that threatens to engulf the civilised’ (Linda Dryden). Discuss.
NewGothic fiction of the 1880s and 1890s dramatises the late Victorian fear of “otherness”. In fin-de-siècle Britain, the concept of racial and cultural degeneration spawned fears of a primitive “other”. This fear is encoded in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). In both texts a primitive “other” threateningly lurks within externally moral men. Indeed, both Stevenson and Wilde suggest that the threat of “otherness” comes from with...
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A* Grade FULL MARK (50/50) AQA A-Level English Literature NEA coursework
I achieved an A in AQA English Lit A Level This essay achieved FULL MARKS (50/50) and was marked by an AQA examiner. *2,579 Comparison essay between Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ and Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Both texts are explored in large detail, covering all assessment objectives, including quotations and analysis, comparison, contextual points, and critical quotes/ evaluation. *DISCLAIMER * *Bibliography not included, footnotes not present due to formatting err...
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