Despite it is not our opinion of horror that makes us jump out of our chairs, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and modern horror are alike in many ways. Her novel reveals different elements of horror, and it does not just makes us think, but it instills in us, sending chills down our spin. The horror story is just a popular today as it was in Shelley's early nineteenth century England. This was a time period of tremendous change. Gothic horror and Realism writing style were at its prime, including writers like: Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and herself, Mary Shelley. In this day and time we have parallel characteristics of modern horror tales such as Stephen King's, or contemporary films such as Nightmare
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With any anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I have my infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs." (Frankenstein, Chapter 5. Paragraph 1. Page 34-35) This is the night of the event where Victor succeeds in bringing his monster to life. Implying the Gothic theme his setting already puts us in a dark environment, it is about 1 in the morning, and in the middle of November therefore it seems to be cold, very wet and gloomy. Victor then questions himself, not knowing whether he should be proud of afraid of what he has brought to life. Then he describes him: "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but... his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips." (Frankenstein, Chapter 5. Paragraph 2. Page 35) Victor is rather obsessed with the 8 foot monster he had arouse. He saw his creation as something very beautiful, but nonetheless very …show more content…
Main character, Paul Sheldon, his is the author of a best-selling series novel that revolves around the character, Misery Chastian. On the way to Los Angeles Sheldon travels through the mountains and runs into a snowstorm and crashes upside down into a snowbank. Passing on the way home a local, Annie Wilkes, sees the accident and rescues Sheldon from his car. She then takes him under her care for a few weeks. Later on Annie reveals to Sheldon that she is Misery's and his number one fan. Looking after Sheldon each day he notices changes in Annie's behavior. She is coming more and more obsessed with him, so obsessed that she will do just about anything to keep him there to stay with her, this means even drugging him or cutting his foot
With any anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I have my infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs." (Frankenstein, Chapter 5. Paragraph 1. Page 34-35) This is the night of the event where Victor succeeds in bringing his monster to life. Implying the Gothic theme his setting already puts us in a dark environment, it is about 1 in the morning, and in the middle of November therefore it seems to be cold, very wet and gloomy. Victor then questions himself, not knowing whether he should be proud of afraid of what he has brought to life. Then he describes him: "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but... his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips." (Frankenstein, Chapter 5. Paragraph 2. Page 35) Victor is rather obsessed with the 8 foot monster he had arouse. He saw his creation as something very beautiful, but nonetheless very …show more content…
Main character, Paul Sheldon, his is the author of a best-selling series novel that revolves around the character, Misery Chastian. On the way to Los Angeles Sheldon travels through the mountains and runs into a snowstorm and crashes upside down into a snowbank. Passing on the way home a local, Annie Wilkes, sees the accident and rescues Sheldon from his car. She then takes him under her care for a few weeks. Later on Annie reveals to Sheldon that she is Misery's and his number one fan. Looking after Sheldon each day he notices changes in Annie's behavior. She is coming more and more obsessed with him, so obsessed that she will do just about anything to keep him there to stay with her, this means even drugging him or cutting his foot