Mary Shelley the author known for her horror novel Frankenstein. In order to write the book it took imagination and other influences in order to make it the way that it is. The influences to help the author could have been many different things. What influence did Mary Shelley's life have on the story? Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797 to intelligent parents.
Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, has used a framing narrative in the opening letters of the novel, to help set up the major premise of the novel. Through the epistolary form it eases the reader into the story and adds a subplot that gives the main story texture and richness. This technique also focuses on the character parallels between Walton and Frankenstein, and how Walton foreshadows Frankenstein’s story. Many writers of the time wrote in the traditional romantic genre, however Shelley challenges this by writing in the gothic genre through the epistolary form and negative message she conveys through Victor of the dangers of romanticism. To force the reader to actively engage in the text, Shelley uses a fallible narrator unlike the traditional novel.
The Devil and Tom Walker Gothic literature was and still is a very common form of literature in which the point of writing is to make people scared or to question their beliefs. It started around the Puritan times and was directly opposed to their views, so it was aimed at them to make them question their beliefs. Gothic literature is usually extremely dark and gloomy with more than a little death and decay throughout the story. It also almost always has some form of supernatural being or event. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is a perfect example of gothic literature because it has all of the characteristic features of it.
The idea of doubling is a central theme in Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein. This theme reveals itself in a variety of ways, predominantly with the parallels between Frankenstein and his creature, but it also is apparent from the dualities in other characters, the language and images used and in the structure and form of the novel itself. Victor Frankenstein and the physical creature are the most obvious example of doubling. One way in which Shelley shows how the two are a reflection of each other is through the therapeutic way nature affects their souls. Early on in the novel during his nervous breakdown Frankenstein he says that the ‘season contributed greatly to my convalescence.’ This soothing effect nature has on the mind is replicated when the creature, after having endured a hellish, bitterly cold winter alone, finds that ‘spring cheered even’ him, inducing feelings of ‘gentleness and pleasure’.
Washington Irving is identified with the gothic with his “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, however the gothic mode can also be identified in his story, “Rip Van Winkle”. To begin, both will be compared with their use of the Gothic Mode. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing set the mold for most gothic literature to follow. From “The Raven” to “The Tell-Tale Heart” his writing sets the reader on edge and fills them with unease. “Its style tends to be ornate, unnatural” (Carter 134).
In the book Dracula by Bram Stroker, there are many qualities that are needed, maybe even required for success. This classic novel known throughout the world for its thrilling chills it gives the readers by being composed from letters, journal and diary entries, telegrams, and newspaper clippings giving it a realistic feel. Characters; Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray (later Mina Harker), and Dr. Seward write the largest contributions to the novel although the writings of Lucy Westenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of the book. This book is around the gothic time periods when vampires were a big deal. As an English man (Jonathan Harker) travels through Transylvania on a business trip.
"…writing is one of the closet ways to get a detailed look at our dreams…stories, poetry, and songs come from the subconscious…they show the author's inner thoughts and let the reader inside her or his inner soul." Jonathan Malory, Literature inspired by dreams Bram Stoker's Dracula, like many literary works are constantly analyzed by their metaphoric content. Although it is true that some literature is metaphorically intentional, there are many instances where a story is simply a story. Dracula can and should be analyzed through the psychobiographical perspective in which the question of what unconscious elements of the text express the fantasies of the author is raised. The so-called metaphoric content is none other than a reflection of the author's inner psyche in which the neurotic author uses literature as a form of sublimation (Freud, 150).
Compare and Contrast Paper By Cody Bartley Dean koontz is a well known author known for his novels based on suspense, fiction and thrillers. Some of his best work can be seen in the series "Frankenstein". The series consists of 5 novels starting with "Prodical Son", "City of Night", "Dead and Alive", "Lost Souls", and "The Dead Town". The first three books are a trilogy and are going to be the main focus on this paper. Althought these three books are based on the same story they are also very different by the way the characters change and the conflicts.
Evidence of a gothic novel in Frankenstein Gloomy settings have been used for centuries by many authors to generate a Gothic novel. Bram Stoker used this method to write Dracula, the dreary tale of a dead demon who survives by drinking the blood of the living. Stoker uses gothic imagery to enhance the horror of his novel. Much similar to this, Mary Shelley uses the same tactic to create her own tale of a monster. In her novel Frankenstein, she creates her own gothic novel by the classical elements of a dark setting, the use of a villainous character, and the mysterious tone.
Another real-life example can be seen in the settlers during the colonization of America. The people in each example all have varied reasons for their questioning, but they all share one significant motive – their relentless curiosity. In the 1818 novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the first character the reader