Susan Hills Women in Black and Mary Shellys Frankenstein :: English Literature

Susan Hills Women in macabre and bloody shame Shellys FrankensteinThe word gothic means eighteenth coke literature referring to afrightening partner of content being used.I have chosen two gothic novels to indicate the typical blows of agothic novel. One is Susan Hills Women in Black and Mary ShellysFrankenstein.These two gothic novels concentrate on the two major worries withinsociety when these books were published.Frankenstein concentrates on the pre-curser on acquaintance fiction. Thispre-curser in Frankenstein is mans objective to play god.Frankenstein was written in a tip of time when light waselevating but society in general was cowardly to accept a progress beingmade by man they preferred progresses justified by God. Mary Shellycould affiliate to her novel of Frankenstein to the layover of time whenit was written because the many people living in the 18th century whenshe was alive, were driven by religion not by science and freshlyrevelations being made by man wer e considered to be play god. InMary Shellys Frankenstein she states in the introduction of the bookthat, during the time conclusion when Frankenstein was written themajority of published novels were not gripping or new and her novelwould make an unusual change to which society can carry on to.The Women in black concentrates on the grief when losing a youngchild. This was published in 2000 and it is relatable towards todayssociety because a lot parents today can tinge to having children andknow how protective they are towards their own children.Personally since I do not have children of my own I found it difficultto relate with the grief the characters posses and from that mygeneral interest in the story began to sway.The typical feature a gothic novel possesses is setting the scene. Thesecond chapter of The Women in Black concentrates on the surroundings,the author portrays the weather on a Monday afternoon in November as alightning heart of change, never seeming to come to the full light and alsoraw to and a yellow fog, a dingy fog, evil smelling fog, a fog thatchoked and blinded, smeared and stained. Susan Hill nowcreates a felling of ill being and worry. The novel begins in Novemberwhich is a symbolic representation of death, creating negative atmosphere to beginthe novel with. In comparison with Mary Shellys Frankenstein this isvery similar. When the creature Frankenstein is created, the Authorportrays the weather and time of day as a, dreary night of November.Also instantaneously Mary shelly has created a felling of feardescribing the event to occur again in the month of November and also