Week One: Frankenstein

This book was a bit slow introducing the Gothic nature, but in all horror or gothic genres they begin slow to create unsettling feelings and "fear", but when getting to chapter four it seems to get darker, and more intriguing. I chose this part of the passage to write about because this is where I believe the book actually starts. The end of chapter 3 really reveals Frankenstein's true desire. He talks more, and more about the philosophers he studied over the years. He then faces ultimately what his father had told him years ago, that he should not be wasting his time and should study something else. He then goes on to talk to another professor about the philosophers, and this time the professor encourages him. I think this is where all his spark came back, and he diligently begins studying again and getting back to material that sparked his most interest. I think the beginning of something awful is how most gothic books or films start. He begins to talk about how he has begun studying things like how death, and supernatural things didn't bother hime. He expressed he wasn't at all afraid, but interested in these things. I think that itself turned the entire feel of the book to gothic in this chapter. That moment in my opinion was a turning point for the book, and finally contracted my attention. He then goes on to talk about the more obvious gothic moments in the instance he had brought a worm back to life, and felt so accomplished in doing what other great philosophers he had looked up to couldn't.