Frankenstein: What Makes It A Gothic Novel?
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One of the most important aspects of any gothic novel is setting. Mary
Shelly's Frankenstein is an innovative and disturbing work that weaves a tale
of passion, misery, dread, and remorse. Shelly reveals the story of a man's
thirst for knowledge which leads to a monstrous creation that goes aga ....
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.... of happiness stand
out. The setting sets the atmosphere and creates the mood. The “dreary night
of November” (Shelly 42) where the monster is given life, remains in the memory.
And that is what is felt throughout the novel-the dreariness of it all along
with the desolate isolation. Yet there were still glimpses of happiness in
Shelly's “vivid pictures of the grand scenes among Frankenstein- the
thunderstorm of the Alps, the valleys of Servox and Chamounix, the glacier and
the precipit ....
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