frankenstein notes

Gothic and religion

• "wondrous power that attracts the needle"
• "surrounded by ice" "vast irregular plains of ice" "shut in... by ice"
• "the fall of a leaf startled me, and i shunned my fellow creatures as if i had been guilty of a crime"
• "i considered the being which i had cast upon mankind... nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave"
• "i desire the company of a man who can sympathise with me" (traditionaly gothic novels have multiple narrators"
• "the raising of ghosts or devils..."
• "have aquired new and unlimited powers... can command the thunders of heaven... even mock the invisible world" this is an omen from Waldon, F's teacher at uni, an omen is a gothic thing. Also notice the mimilarities with 'walton' and 'waldon'.
• "my eyeballs were starting from their sockets... often did my human nature turn with loathing"
• "daemon"
• omen again: "one by one her brothers and sisters died; and her mother... she began to think…