Summary:
Essay explores the Gothic features in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is considered to be one of the greatest Gothic Romantic novels and is sometimes regarded as the first science fiction novel. Shelley wrote this book when she was very young it was published when she was 21. She came up with the idea to the book in the summer of 1816, which she spent in Switzerland with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. As they spent most of their time inside reading ghost stories, since it rain almost the whole time, the three of them decided that they all should write a ghost story. Mary Shelley says that the picture of young Victor Frankenstein came to her in a dream and a couple of years later the book was published. The book contains a lot of Gothic influences and aspects. I will.....
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