Gothic Novel The Gothic emerged as a literary genre in the 1750s, and is characterized by supernatural elements, mysterious and secretive events, settings in ancient and isolated locations, and psychological undercurrents often related to family dynamics and repressed sexuality.

Shelley effectively uses the romantic element of nature to develop Victor and the Creature throughout the novel. In Frankenstein, Shelley chose to use Gothic elements to build suspense. The best example of this is the night the Creature first awakened.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a perfect combination of Goth and Romance to make an unforgettable story. Gothic novels generally have some type of mystery and include the supernatural. Most importantly, Frankenstein deals with the most intense element of goth; death. …

Victor Frankenstein, the main character, is a romantic character because he represents the Romantic ideals of imagination and innovation. Other examples of Romanticism in the novel appear when Shelley incorporates vivid imagery of nature. Throughout the novel, Shelley describes the awesomeness of nature.

Key themes of the Romantic Period

• Revolution, democracy, and republicanism.
• The Sublime and Transcendence.
• The power of the imagination, genius, and the source of inspiration.
• Proto-psychology & extreme mental states.
• Nature and the Natural.

10 Key Characteristics of Romanticism in Literature

• Glorification of Nature.
• Awareness and Acceptance of Emotions.
• Celebration of Artistic Creativity and Imagination.
• Emphasis on Aesthetic Beauty.
• Themes of Solitude.
• Focus on Exoticism and History.
• Spiritual and Supernatural Elements.
• Vivid Sensory Descriptions.

Characteristics of Romanticism. Romantic literature is marked by six primary characteristics: celebration of nature, focus on the individual and spirituality, celebration of isolation and melancholy, interest in the common man, idealization of women, and personification and pathetic fallacy.

Solitude and Spiritual Insight. Wordsworth was interested in how solitude allows people to form a spiritual understanding of their existence. In this excerpt from The Prelude, solitude in the natural world has a profound spiritual effect on the speaker, leading him to discover the solitude of his own mind.

Literary criticism of The Prelude ‘ The goal of the poem is to demonstrate his fitness to produce great poetry, and The Prelude itself becomes evidence of that fitness.” It traces the growth of the poet’s mind by stressing the mutual consciousness and spiritual communion between the world of nature and man.

Wordsworth uses the ​motif of the mountain​to portray the underestimation of nature’s power. The speaker can be seen as symbolic of humanity as a whole. The speaker believed ​“the summit of a craggy peak” ​to be the extent of his world, and the extent of nature’s power over his world.

For the reason that we have just explained above in which we said that Wordsworth sees nature as part of his life and his family and it has been in his life from his birth, the poet reflects this idea in his poems through the personification of the elements of nature allowing them to have powers and characteristics …