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The Silver Pillow Study Guide

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by Thomas M. Disch
About 4 pages (1,105 words)
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Literary Precedents

The Silver Pillow is a gothic tale, featuring ghostly influences and psychological insight. From its inception, the gothic literary genre has used superstitions about the supernatural world to symbolize personality traits.

The monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is a complicated being, but among other aspects of the personality of his creator, he represents the reckless lust to acquire knowledge without understanding it. In Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.....

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The Silver Pillow from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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