1. In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”
Writing Genres
In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

2. Romanticism in Literature
Romanticism was a shift from
faith in reason to faith in the senses
feelings, and imagination
interest in urban society to an interest in the rural and natural
public, impersonal poetry to subjective poetry
concern with the scientific and mundane to interest in the mysterious and infinite.
Mainly romanticists cared about the individual, intuition, and imagination.

3. Elements Of
First and foremost, Romanticism is concerned with the individual more than with society.
The four elements of Romanticism are 1. Love of nature 2. Importance of emotion/imagination 3. Rejection of classic art forms 4. Rebellion against society

4. Gothic Literature
Gothic fiction, is literature that combines elements of both horror and romance.
Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story".
The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole.

5. Gothic Literature Elements of: Setting in a Castle
Atmosphere of Mystery and Suspense
Omens and visions
Supernatural events
overwrought emotion
gloom and horror

6. Vocabulary Used in Gothic Literature
Mystery
Fear, Terror, Sorrow
Surprise
Haste
Anger
Darkness