The second characteristic of the Gothic theme is the fascination with the unconscious and abnormal psychology. ... When Victor finally tells his secret to Walton, it is as if some of the burden has been lifted and he dies soon after. ... He doesn't remember much of the time that he was in his cell, but he says, "I lay for two months on the point of death: my ravings, as I afterwards heard were frightful; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval" (p.171). ... This is the most obvious of all the themes present in the novel. ... Everyone that has ever been clos...

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He quickly introduces the theme of death and compares the dead leaves to "ghosts" (3). ... The only problem is that they lay "cold and low" or unnourished or not elevated. ... The arrangement and structure of the stanzas also serve purpose to emphasize Shelley's theme (Shelley, Complete Poems 233). ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-. ... At one point he cries out to God to reveal himself, saying "I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed [religion]; I was not heard "I saw them [the dead] not-. ...

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I said, "Is it good friend?" ... If I were the novelist, the bible would have been a much improved alternative. ... In the theme of revolution, the rich control what is acceptable, and to them, Frankenstein's monster definitely does not fit the mold. ... I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept". ... When Frankenstein dies, his monster is the first to come lay his body to rest and the first to follow him into the after life. ...

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