Carolina Rodriguez Sylvia Herrera English Literature 21 August 2014 Literal Review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Fight Club Gothic Literature is tied to horror, gothic literature's main purpose is not the one of horror, but as it conveys its own message, it contain gothic elements that create a horror setting for the story and characters. Elements such as the atmosphere, visions, ancient prophecies, supernatural or unexplained events, uncanny figures (not precisely monsters), character's negative emotions as depression and torment, and repression. The purpose of this essay is to compare the novella wrote back in the Victorian era, known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the movie Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk in the 90s. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Fight Club exhibit Gothic elements which includes the uncanny figures, the isolation and role of sleep of each character, and the setting in each story. An uncanny figure takes the lead in both stories, Mr. Hyde and Tyler Durden help create a gothic novella. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hyde is portrayed as an uncanny figure, causing a mysterious and unsettling feeling of fear in everyone whom he encounters. Hyde not only has the lasting ability of causing fear to the characters, but the reader as well; this remains even now, over a century after the book was written. Though Hyde's physical appearance is never clearly described in the text, the impressions he leaves on characters in the novella contribute to the uncanny feeling surrounding his person, and are strong enough to suggest supernatural forces at work. Mr. Enfield, while telling his story of Hyde to Mr. Utterson, describes Hyde as having given him a look " so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running  ( Stevenson 6). The severity of Hyde's expression is enough to disturb him, and as more unsettling. Enfield says that "he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point  (Stevenson 10), which is a difficult description to visualize, since the word deformity is normally used to describe a physical condition. Though Hyde seems to have no physical deformity, Enfield ascribes the "feeling of deformity  (Stevenson 10) to describe a spiritual, internal defect that he senses in Hyde. In the movie Fight Club, the narrator uses the tools of a fight club and Tyler Durden to enact a life that has danger and excitement. Durden is portrayed as an uncanny figure. He is an unapologetic anarchist, a man without scruples, ethics or decency and perhaps the one individual in the world completely resistant to society's influences. He moves through life confidently without any self-doubt, accurately sizing up everyone around him. He seems to always be the smartest and most charismatic guy in the room, and his journey involves letting "that which does not matter, truly slide  (Fight Club). Taylor forces the narrator to confront and accept the fact that he is just a decaying matter that will eventually die. Tyler burns the narrator's hand saying "without pains, without sacrifice, we would have nothing  (Fight Club). He refuses to neutralize the burn until the narrator gives up until he "knows and not fears that someday he is going to die  (Fight Club). The narrator created the "Fight Club  which may be classified as an uncanny figure as well; the fighting in the novel is not presented as a solution, but as an achievement of a self-realizing. The fighting itself reminds the men that they are alive. As part of Tyler's philosophy, it