The document compares and contrasts elements from three Victorian novels: Wuthering Heights, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. It examines similarities between the novels' characters, themes, and narrative structures. Specifically, it notes that all three novels feature complex characters, themes of ethics and crime/punishment, and the punishment of villains.

1. THE VICTORIAN
NOVELISTS
A comparison

2. Heathcliff and
Jekyll
A comparison

3. Heathcliff and
Jekyll
A comparison

4. A rebel
against
his social Heathcliff and
circle
Jekyll
A rebel
against
social
conventions

5. A rebel
driven by
passion, Heathcliff and
revenge
Jekyll
He’s driven
by reason,
thirst for
knowledge

6. His evil
is due to
his
obsession Heathcliff and
with love Jekyll
His evil is
due to
boredom

7. A force of
nature Heathcliff and
Jekyll
A
respectable
scientist

8. 2
narrators,
flashbacks Wuthering
Heights
4 The Strange Case of
narrators. Doctor Jekyll and
A detective Mr Hyde
story

9. Evil as
man’s ruin Themes in
common
The
villain’s
punishment

10. Death as
liberation Themes in
common
Complex
characters

11. A detached
narrator.
Dialogue. The picture of
Dorian Gray
4 The Strange Case of
narrators. Doctor Jekyll and
A detective Mr Hyde
story

12. Double
Themes in
common
Ethics

13. Crime
Themes in
common
The
villain’s
punishment

14. The
strength
of senses Themes in
common
Freedom

15. Hate for
social
conventions Themes in
common
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