LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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It suggests that the creation process has become perverted.
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It invokes the laws of man.
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It offers an acceptable correction to scientific mistakes.
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It represents a natural process.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Shelley uses many gothic elements in Frankenstein. She incorporates the destruction of family via revenge and the blurring of the line between life and death. She also ties in secrets threatening to be revealed and horror elements such as corpses, reanimation, and dark scientific experiments.
Detailed explanation-2: -Its prominent elements are supernatural incidents, scientific danger, persecution, distorted human beings, the sublime and terror. It is the fruit of a horror romance writing competition with her friends and a threatening nightmare…
Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Shelley uses allusions in Frankenstein to help the reader better understand her characters and themes. She uses allusions from works such as the Bible, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Dante’s Divine Comedy to help the reader connect her characters to known characters and themes from these works.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein is famously subtitled The Modern Prometheus, after the Greek myth of the god Prometheus. This Greek god steals the sacred fire of Mount Olympus and gifts it to humanity.