... heaving him down a well. Characterisation of Hester and Katherine further creates the suspense and thriller evident in the novel. Hester Harper is the typical character of a gothic novel as she is a lonely spinster marginalised by society because of her crippled leg. It was her loneliness, lack of love ... , appear throughout the broad scope of contemporary gothic fiction. Katherine is an abandoned child with no known roots and thus is the famous gothic character of the foundling. She is from the orphanage, an unwanted, unloved child who has already been rejected by people in the country ...

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In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. However, in the years between his next meeting with ... flees in terror, the creature recounts that, "his appearance [was] different from any I had ever seen before, and his flight somewhat surprised me." (Shelley 73) In saying the stranger's flight surp...

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