How is Frankenstein a typical gothic novel?
… be used to create atmosphere within the story. It also helps the reader to picture what is happening. Without weather I personally think that it would be exceedingly difficult to create atmosphere. An example of weather been able to set the atmosphere is using a dull atmosphere “heavens were clouded” to set a feeling of evil is about to happen because heaven, which is for the good, has been closed off from the world. Surprisingly, there were a vast number of Gothic authors. Mary Shelly was one, and she used some of the most recent technological findings of her time to create Frankenstein. She has replaced the heavenly fire of the Prometheus myth with the spark of newly discovered electricity. Mary Shelley was born in Great Britain, in 1797. In 1816, her and her husband went abroad, this time spent with two friends in Geneva, one of which was …
