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   jlwilliams1975 Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

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   There are several:

   Body snatching or grave robbing--that one should be obvious.

   Gothic Counterfeit--many gothic works present themselves as recoveries/presentations of some older texts.  Shelley doesn't exactly do this, but she does separate herself from the work by beginning it with a series of letters and with Victor telling his story on the ship.

   Dreaming/Nightmares--after re-animating the corpse, Victor falls into an exhausted sleep.  He dreams about kissing his love, Elizabeth, who turns in to the rotting corpse of his dead mother.

   The Grotesque--(one of my personal favorites) mutation of the characters, plants, animals, setting, etc in a work.  Victor sets out to create a perfect man; instead, he creates a monstrosity.

   Terror--terror stimulates the mind and imagination; it often challenges intellectual reasoning

   The Pursued Protagonist--again, pretty obvious

   Revenge--obvious

   Transformation/metamorphosis--change in appearance; change in the form or function of an organism, either by natural or unnatural processes

   I've taught Gothicism and Frankenstein, but for my list of Gothic characteristics, I used the following website:

   http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/goth.html

   Sources:

   http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~dougt/goth.html

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   ciaran123 Student
   High School - 12th Grade

   thank you very much!

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   Posted by ciaran123 on Monday November 9, 2009 at 4:44 AM