Looking Closely at Chapter 5 of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Show How She Creates Feeling of Fear and Foreboding in the Reader.

Looking Closely at Chapter 5 of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Show How She Creates Feeling of Fear and Foreboding in the Reader.

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Mary shelly is the author of the novel called Frankenstein and this essay is all about how Mary Shelly uses lots of classis gothic horror conventions to put fear and foreboding into the reader. She wrote this story in 1818 and it is a tale of gothic horror and sadness. In 1818 female authors were not as thought of as male authors and because of this she didn’t put her name on the book for over 13 years. Scientists at the time were discussing the possibility of bringing people back to life, they were also learning a lot about the human body, and part of this was how the blood circulates and how the nerves send electric messages around the body. This is very much reflected by the way that Dr Frankenstein uses a lot of electricity to bring his monster to life. These new out breaks in discovery and the great tragedies in her life lead to the ideas in her head that were expressed by writing the novel Frankenstein.

As Victor Frankenstein is bringing his monster to life there is a great deal of suspense as the weather from outside shows how Victor Frankenstein was becoming very anxious and unstable as he creates life. There is a lot of thunder and lightning out side his laboratory which really puts emphasis on the way that Victor Frankenstein is playing god in the monsters unnatural birth. By doing this Victor Frankenstein breaks the rules of religion; he also breaks the penal law of the land by grave robbing bodies to create his over obsessed monster.

Mary Shelly really puts emphasis on the setting and general atmosphere of the laboratory in which becomes his asylum, as she adds importance to the laboratory it becomes a bigger influence to the story line” been my asylum” and "house in which I had inhabited" these statements create a sense that he is trapped inside his laboratory when really he is trapping himself with his over obsessive actions to create the monster.” half extinguished light”,” the rain pattered dismally against the pains" this also shows how...

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