Gothic Fiction in Frankenstein

There are many gothic elements within the story of Frankenstein, the author of this book Mary Shelley uses vivid images and moods to describe the story bit by bit. Shelley uses many elements such as rain and thunder during Victor's creation of his monster. Another really gothic image is the way the monster was created (with other human limbs) these discriptive images really are dark and evil sounding. After the monster is created, Victor has terrible images of Elizabeth dying in his arms, and maggots start to come out of her body. I think the main gothic elements simplified are the emotions and overall feelings of gloom and despair throughout, the supernatural and the tragedy.

When we look at Shelley's piece of literature we see a lot of dark elements to this book, and these can be easily picked up throughout the book because of images that are easy to spot .