The term uncanny means having or seeming to have a ghostlike or incomprehensible source, in other words something that is way outside the ordinary or the norm. As for the unhomely the term means lacking in physical appearance and unattractive. Mended together from scraped body parts of dead men, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one example that clearly shows the meaning of the two terms, uncanny and the unhomely. The novel, Frankenstein shapes clearly the divisions between creator and created, master and servant, and most importantly human and monster. Freud’s theory of the uncanny gives an account of fear, suggesting that one of the main ways in which a feeling of the uncanny is produced is when the familiar is made unfamiliar. This can be
