Gothic double

English

Noun

Gothic double (plural Gothic doubles)

  1. (literature) An essential duality within a single character, centred on the polarity of good and evil.
    Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" involves a Gothic double.
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