as death is can also be ruled gothic. After the death of his mother Victor begins his voyage to find himself. He is on his way to the great unknown, experiencing something new, and possibly trying something that has never been tried before. It can also be viewed as romantic because this departure from his mother may have leaded him to find life somewhere else. Victor started to believe that he could bring people back from the grave. Playing with nature in such a way would make him play the role of God. Victor felt that he had no true friends, the only relief he had of expressing his feeling was through letters to Elizabeth. He desperately tries to befriend members of society, but utterly fails at each attempt. Both his mother’s absence and his loneliness may have leaded him to create his creature. Male dominancy is a huge characteristic of gothic work done in the 18th and 19th centuries; Shelly exemplifies this in many ways. After the death of his mother, a man now leads Victor’s house. Victor goes off to an all male school where he is surrounded my nothing but males. Victor became so self absorbed into his project that he seem to forget all that was important to him. As he gets further into the making of his monster he Herrera - 3cuts off all ties even with his love Elizabeth for over two years. As witnessed in his actions before Victor is a very romantic man. During this time away from females Victor devotes all his passion towards the creation of his monster. Victor goes off onto school and already being interested in subjects such as natural philosophy and chemistry, he falls upon the question of how to bring someone back to life, “One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life”(51). After Victor figured out what gives life, he experimented with creating a human being. He constructed a giant man, 8 f...
