FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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It has been snowing and Frankenstein is not able to leave his house
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Frankenstein runs out of elektricity and everything is dark
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It is dark and rainy. The candle is nearly burnt out. Overall, a very creepy setting
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -How is the night that the creature is born an example of Gothic prose? It is dark and rainy. The candle is nearly burned out. Overall, a very creepy setting.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gothic elements that can be found in this chapter are the grotesque (description of the monster’s features), the eerie environment (Victor’s lab at 1 a.m.), the undead quality, and some type of psychic communication (Victor’s feeling of being followed).
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Gothic novels focus on the mysterious and supernatural. In Frankenstein, Shelley uses rather mysterious circumstances to have Victor Frankenstein create the monster: the cloudy circumstances under which Victor gathers body parts for his experiments and the use of little known modern technologies for unnatural purposes.