Gothic In Frankenstein

Gothic in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
Gothic novel is a terrified story in which most of the actions as well as the setting are the mysterious and terrifying one. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is a good example of a gothic novel, but this novel is not a mere gothic one, it is a mixture of gothic and romance in which gothic is the dominant element. Frankenstein is a story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist, who wants to know how to create life, and finally he makes a monster out of the rests of some dead bodies. After Victor did this he became regretful, abandoned his university, and came back home, but the monster wants to get revenge from his creator because of his loneliness. At last the monster kills all the members of victor’s family,
All these elements help readers to feel a sad and horrible situation. On the last days of his work he became sick because of hard work, his guilty feeling was much more than before, the weather is really dark, cold and rainy, and the place that Victor is working in is also dingy and frightening one. So with all these vivid and clear elements we become ready for the birth of monster, Mary Shelly explains the day of the monster’s birth in this way “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils……..”, and also we see Victor as a very tired and frightened person when he saw the monster in his dimly-lit lab, he escapes to his room and sees nightmares all through the night. In the morning he didn’t dare to go to his lab so he went to streets, the morning was a wet and dismal one that is not very pleasant for readers. Till now Mary shelly makes a perfect scene of horror; every thing, the setting, the atmosphere, the main plot has a very good harmony with each other, and all these things transmit tangible terror to readers. In the street he saw his close friend, Henry Clerval, and both of them became very happy, Victor was sick and Henry took care of him for some months, in these periods we didn’t read anything about the monster. The situation is not very bad, Victor is becoming better, and he received a letter from Elizabeth, his half-sister and also his lover, who wants him go back home. Victor and Henry came back to college, Victor tried to forget the monster and didn’t tell his secret to his