In The Sandman, the strangeness of the tale can be seen in two directions - the first being that of intellectual uncertainty and the other is that of psychoanalytic experience and notably the ideas of Freud. . In order to describe the strange experience of Hoffmann's The Sandman and Shelley's Frankenstein, it is essential, however, to first explain and define what the connotation of Unheimlich is. In my more in-depth analysis of the strangeness, I recount the two works and I emphasize the obsession of the two characters which explains their strangeness. Additionally, I focus on the environment versus society because it is relevant to the debate on strangeness. Unconsciousness also plays a major role in describing the uncanny. Thus, we attribute the uncanny to the collapse of the psychic boundaries of the conscious and the unconscious, of the self and the other, of the living and the dead, of the real and the unreal. These recurring themes, which trigger our most primitive desires and fears, are the very hallmark of the fiction of Shelley and Hoffmann. Before continuing to analyze this topic, I would like to clarify and define the meaning of the word “strangeness” in the way that I do. understand it. This word comes from the German Unheimlich, which means "unsightly", unknown, uncomfortable, uneasy and at the same time dark, horrible, demonic and horrible. According to Freud, this word justifies the need for a special conceptual term, which consists of expressing certain things that are in the realm of what is frightening but at the same time leads back to what is known as old and familiar. Freud, however, argues that the “uncanny” is frightening precisely because it is neither known nor familiar. .When we read Hoffmann's tale, ...... middle of paper ......ation associated with the difficulty of dealing with it. It is not surprising that the meaning of das Unheimliche is so ambiguous, as it is a connotation to something that we do not understand and will probably never truly understand. In conclusion, I would say that the power of literature is precisely connoted in this sense. unprecedented symbolic order of language that can never produce or fix a definite meaning but nevertheless conveys “the desire and curse of meaning.” This is the meaning of the transcendent meaning of the text which leaves the reader always waiting and curious and at the same time delighted with the pleasure that this play of the authors brings him. On the other hand, there is always this strange component of meaning that cannot be clarified or rationalized but is nevertheless an integral part of our reading experience..