Frankenstein is a novel written through the eyes of the main character Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The novel begins with a series of letters from a man who found Victor Frankenstein floating in icy waters, near death. Victor is an orphan who loves science, and is very smart. After being found, Victor studies for years at a university and devises a plan to bring back a dead person. Victor successfully resurrects a dead body, but is soon followed by intense guilt for recreating such a thing. Dr. Frankenstein
The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic