Wolf in a Sheepskin or a Sheep in a Wolfskin?: A comparative archetypal analysis of the Gothic Doppelgangers of Victorian, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man

This thesis aims to prove the need for a new doppelganger concept and to form the framework of the new doppelganger concept via a comparative archetypal analysis of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and H.G. Well's The Invisible Man by using Victorian Age's unique features as parameters. In order to use archetypal analysis effectively, the origins and historical progress of collective unconscious and archetypes are investigated thoroughly. This thesis reveals the relation between Victorian Age and Gothic literature, since the literary works of Victorian Age to be analysed belong to Gothic genre, after it provides background information about the origins and historical progress of Doppelganger concept, and a detailed introduction of Victorian Age. The unique qualities of Victorian Age, the monstrosity and society, male dominance and masculinity, and Victorian morality and the pursuit of hedonism are utilised as parameters to analyse the aforementioned Victorian literary works. To sum up, this thesis is an attempt to prove the need of a new Gothic doppelganger concept unique to Victorian Age via a comparative archetypal analysis including the parameters aforementioned, and to form the framework of Victorian Gothic doppelganger concept.