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 precip ....
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