Month: January 2016

How pathetic fallacy is is used over 3 types of gothic texts

Pathetic fallacy is when the weather matches the mood of the setting or character. The 3 gothic texts I will be looking at pathetic fallacy is Click clack the rattle bag, Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde.

In Jekyll and Hyde pathetic fallacy is used throughout the novel and one example is when Hyde describes the sky in london “constellations that looked down upon me.” Pathetic fallacy is also used when Jekyll first turns into Edward Hyde stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.” The weather during this was dark and stormy because storms are dark scary and intense just like when Jekyll first turns into Hyde.
Pathetic fallacy is used in Frankenstein for example when the monster was first created. He was created in a tall spooky castle in at night when there was a massive storm and like in Jekyll and Hyde the mood was intense spooky and dangerous. Which matches the mood of what the character is doing.

In the click clack the rattle bag pathetic fallacy is used a lot at the beginning when the child is with his sisters boyfriend and wants to go to bed, but wants a scary bedtime story. As they walk together upstairs to bed when the storm causes the power to go out. Then the trees start bashing up against the window causing the mood to get spookier and spookier. Again pathetic fallacy is used because the mood of n the setting matches the weather.

personification is when somthing non-human is described as something human. This is used throughout the three texts.

You – u
Are – r

How Stevenson Creates Gothic in Jekyll and Hyde.
Stevenson creates gothic in Jekyll & Hyde through different ways one of which is pathetic fallacy.
Gothic is a type of genre that is dark and spooky. Gothic is about all things sinister and dull so it’s about murders in dank and eerie places and horrifying in gaudy body formations.

Stevenson uses pathetic fallacy in Jekyll & Hyde to create a gothic atmosphere. (Pathetic fallacy is when the weather matches the mood of the character). He uses pathetic fallacy when Hyde describes the sky “constellations that looked down upon me.” The author also uses pathetic fallacy when Crew is being murdered. Because he was murdered in a dark alleyway at the dead of midnight which is spooky so the weather was misty, eerie and silent which matches the mood of the setting.

Another way that Stevenson creates gothic is mystery which plays a huge part in Jekyll and Hyde. When Jekyll firsts becomes Hyde “I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.” The mystery of Jekyll and Hyde continues throughout the novel. Stevenson also gives us clues about Jekyll and Hyde being the same person and then to end the mystery of them being the same person Hyde committed suicide.
Stevenson also uses dramatic irony in Jekyll and Hyde when Hyde kills himself “right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe turned it on its back and beheld the face of Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far to large for him, clothes for the doctors bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone…. Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self destroyer.”
This is dramatic irony because Utterson has found Hyde who had killed himself but we know as the audience that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person.
In conclusion Stevenson uses mystery, suspense, dramatic irony and pathetic fallacy in Jekyll and Hyde making it a gothic novel.