Shelley Winters

and definable. As a contrast to the temperate Romantic period, Gothic novels feature strong emotions and less sophisticated plots than their related Romance counterparts do. Frankenstein is just one of the numerous novels in the Gothic style. Mary Shelley employs the common Gothic elements of suspense, supernatural events, intense emotion, women in distress, and pathetic fallacy in her popular novel. Suspense and mystery are common builds to the plot in Gothic novels and in Frankenstein…

carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him” (Shelley 102). Meanwhile, Victor is the creature, as he is subject to the monster’s will; he can do nothing but take on the passive role and suffer through them, as when the monster murders…

Calgary has a population of 1 million people which is one of the largest in Canada. COP was expanded during the Winter Olympics in 1988. This included ski jumps, bob sleigh, skeleton and luge (Ferguson). Then COP built hockey rinks and cross country ski trails. This contributes to the economic development COP as this attracts many different level skiers and snowboarders…

would be seen in a gothic novel. These adjectives give a greatly different feel than words such as ‘mild’, ‘sunny’, and ‘glorious’. The latter words would more commonly be utilized in the introduction of a Romantic novel. As a mostly Gothic writer, Shelley takes Victor’s connection to nature to its extreme. The author uses both…

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, you are given three points of views when you get to look through Victor Frankenstein, the Creature, and Robert Walton’s eyes. Frankenstein and the Creature, both driven by each other’s rage and obsession are on a quest to inflict pain on the other. The Creature having experienced pain and abandonment from the moment of his creation goes out to pursue Frankenstein wishing to give the same pain to his “[his] arch-enemy” and creator (125). Later being led…

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the creature 's is an outcast in society, without a friend in the world who is thrust away by humanity due to his appearance. The creature devolves due to a series of events particularly in the first years of his creation experiencing different emotions of hopelessness, being discouraged, and distraught which turns to anger, revenge and then violence. These experiences stem from his creator, Victor Frankenstein, who turns his back on the creature…

In Frankenstein, which was written by Mary Shelley, Victor shows his ambition which develops into an obsession. This causes him to become so engaged into making his discovery that he even forgets about his family. Nature no longer calms him, and he does not think of his health. In the story, Victor states, “…it gained strength as I proceeded, and soon became so ardent and eager, that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory…Two years passed in…

Victor flees into the French Alpine region, more specifically Mont Blanc, to isolate himself from his family. The mountain region is so serene he feels “the very winds [whisper] in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade [him] weep no more” (Shelley 104). This passage clearly portrays the amount of security Victor finds in untouched nature, away from all people. Upon leaving his family he is an emotional mess, but the second he walks into nature he immediately feels a sense of calmness.…

Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley hints at the similarity of the relationship between Frankenstein and the creature, and the relationship between God and humanity in deism. Deists believe in an unreachable and distant God who created nature and humanity, then stepped out. They believe in the principle that God abandoned the world, and the laws of nature now govern humanity. Evil and corruption only enter the world when humanity fails to live up to their potential or to the laws of nature.…

In the extract of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley describes the look and actions of Frankenstein’s monster as well as Frankenstein’s reactions toward his monster. Shelley uses language and an ominous setting to create a fearsome creature. When Mary Shelley contrasts the monster’s beautiful features to its grotesque ones, her language creates an appalling creature. She states, “…these luxuriances only formed more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same color as the dun-white…