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This thesis deals with the analysis of monsters in three major novels of British Gothic literature of the 19th Century with an attempt to determine the concept and the identity of these monsters. The thesis also tries to identify the creators of these monsters and explore the complicating relationship between them. The primary texts from which these monsters came from are Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Lewis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The thesis largely focuses on the physical as well as psychological aspects of the monsters portrayed in these three novels and concentrate on the connection of the monster to its creator. The extracts from the three selected novels are used to support the statements and ideas of the author of this thesis, while at the same time, quotations from the secondary sources are also included to support my argument. The thesis is divided into five chapters: the first three chapters provide an introduction to the topic, explanation of the term Gothic literature, monster and monstrosity, and introduction of the psychoanalytical studies relevant for this thesis; the forth chapter tries to thoroughly analyse the main characters of the three novels in terms of the occurence of the monster. The last chapter contains a conclusion and a summary of the main ideas pointed out in the thesis.

Chapter One: Introduction..................................................1
Chapter Two: Gothic Literature and the Monster Figure......................7
Chapter Three: Theoretical Approaches to the Motif of the Monster.........20
Chapter Four: The Monster and Its Creator – A Complicated Relationship....29
Chapter Five: Conclusion..................................................60
Works Cited...............................................................65

Primary sources

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. London: Vintage, 2014.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. London: Vintage, 2014.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Atlantic Publishing, 2014.

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