UNVEILING THE OBSCURITY: MARY SHELLEY'S "FRANKENSTEIN" AND GOTHIC NOVEL FEATURES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31150/ajshr.v5i1.2648Keywords:
Traditional Settings, Gothic, Scientific Pursuit, Narrative Structure, Alienation, Loneliness, Female CharactersAbstract
Mary Shelley was an iconic writer who lived from 1797 and died in 1851. She was a writer who lived and wrote during a literary era in which Romanticism was on the rise and flourishing. Her work in Shelley can prove that it was greatly influenced by her time, as it shows essential elements of Romantic literature. Romantic feature of Shelley's novels is the way she sets her novels to music and chooses beautiful and exotic locations. The artistic ending that Mary Shelley aimed for in her novel Frankenstein adheres to the convention of Gothic and Romantic styles. Shelley does so through the plot, the characterization in the book, the setting, and the subject matter. In Frankenstein, Shelley uses literary elements that exude both a gothic and romantic factor in the characters in the story.
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