A very good example of this type of literature is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... This theme of the Gothic has different characteristics that all fit into the story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster and make this one of the first horror stories every told. ... The second characteristic of the Gothic theme is the fascination with the unconscious and abnormal psychology. ... This is the most obvious of all the themes present in the novel. ... The final characteristic of the Gothic theme in Frankenstein is the air of death and decay throughout the novel. ...

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The movie, Frankenweenie, follows in its footsteps and adopts many of the themes and ideas of the original novel. ... These include the mummy, gremlins, vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein himself. ... One common occurrence of this is the constant raining in both Frankenstein and Frankenweenie. ... This is a reference to Hollywood's Frankenstein movies. ... Frankenstein has managed to stay relevant in pop culture due to its strong literary elements in Gothicism and romanticism. ...

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In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," isolation is a key theme that reveals the importance of community. ... Frankenstein that leads to his downfall shows the importance of community. ... Frankenstein initially agrees to the plea but eventually breaks his promise. ... Like Frankenstein, he has an obsession for knowledge. ... He survives, but Frankenstein dies. ...

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In the novel "Frankenstein," written by English novelist, Mary Shelley, a scientist plays "God" and has to pay the consequences. ... In "Frankenstein," Victor Frankenstein becomes mad and determined to give life to the dead, Victor goes to extraordinary measures to seek it through, "I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame." ... Frankenstein is clearly a gothic novel, but at the same time it is a romantic novel as well. Romantic literature includes themes such as love for nature, the rejection of society, and intense ...

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Frankenstein Unbelievably Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein at the age of eighteen. ... Frankenstein remains one of the greatest examples of Gothic literature. ... Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is a very suspenseful gothic novel. ... The story of Frankenstein also makes use of fear. ... Mary Shelly does a great job of keeping your interest and carry the gothic romantic theme through out the book, without become tedious and redundant. ...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is filled with various underlying themes, the crux being the effect society has on The Creature's personality. ... Frankenstein teaches that man should not try to defy God, and that no one should be judged by their physical appearance. ... Mary Shelley used a deep, gothic theme to get several different points across, and made it interesting by paralleling the main characters with the characters of a well- known story....

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Croke's piece incorporates the Gothic, and in particular themes of the grotesque and the monstrous body through her use of human decay. ... According to Spooner, Frankenstein acts as an archetypal human monster. ... In the context of the Gothic, we are, "not just repetitions of previous forms, but reinventions," (Spooner, 2006), Geek Love follows also a quite Frankensteinian theme. ... Their work has been described to be within a 'gothic idiom' and was concerned with the haunting themes found within these tales. Crokes' work shares a thread with Sherman and the ...

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The ruined abbeys and the decrepit castles are symbols for the collapse of religion and aristocracy, being destroyed by scientific advances, a common theme in the time the book was written. ... He sleeps in a coffin, which is symbolic of the Death culture that Victorian society was obsessed with, which is also shown by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ...

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