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What should I read if I liked Frankenstein?

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What should I read if I liked Frankenstein?

Frankenstein Friday: 8 Books to Read If You Loved Frankenstein

  • The Last Man by Mary Shelley (1826)
  • Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (1592) or Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1790/1831)
  • R.U.R. by Karel Capek (1921)
  • “Moxon’s Master” by Ambrose Bierce (1899)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

What books did Frankenstein inspire?

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  • This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel.
  • Monster by Dave Zeltserman.
  • The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf.
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  • The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd.
  • Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin.
  • Hideous Love by Stephanie Hemphill.

What are the most important themes of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

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Good versus Evil Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is as an allegory about the good and evil that exist in all men, and about our struggle with these two sides of our personality. In the novella the battle between good and evil rages within the individual.

What should I read if I liked Dracula?

8 Books Like Frankenstein & Dracula

  • Cujo, by Stephen King.
  • You, by Caroline Kepnes.
  • Carrie, by Stephen King.
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.
  • The Passage, by Justin Cronin.
  • The Outsider, by Stephen King.
  • The Grown Up, by Gillian Flynn.
  • Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood.

Was Jekyll and Hyde bipolar?

Jekyll and his counterpart, Mr. Hyde, could be one of manic depressive psychosis. The diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and emerging psychological theories during the Victorian Era would have influenced Stevenson and the character of Dr. Jekyll/Mr.

Is Dr Jekyll a good person?

Dr Jekyll is a well-respected and intelligent scientist. He is a wealthy man and lives in a house with his butler, Poole.

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What was the inspiration for the story of Frankenstein?

Lord Byron’s suggestion of a ghost story competition to while away their Swiss holiday not only inspired Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, but also Polidori’s short prose The Vampyre (1819) which later became a source of inspiration for Bram Stoker’s seminal work, Dracula (1897).

What does Hyde symbolize?

Hyde, as his name indicates, represents the fleshy (sexual) aspect of man which the Victorians felt the need to “hide” — as Utterson once punned on his name: “Well, if he is Mr. Hyde, I will be Mr. Seek.” Hyde actually comes to represent the embodiment of pure evil merely for the sake of evil.

Who said man is not truly one but two?

Robert Louis Stevenson’s
‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.