Frankenstein

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shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames".

The author demonstrates another element of a Gothic Novel by bringing fear into her audience. Victor had described the monster as terrifying, and immediately disowns him when the creation was complete. "I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived". This gives the readers a frightening picture in mind. While reading this novel, the reader can not predict the creation's next action. Because of this, the creation adds a scary aspect for the whole novel. Towards the end of Frankenstein, Victor, alone, in the cemetery hears a spooky laugh. "I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. The laughter died away, when a well-known and ...

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