... , which also frightens the reader. The weather is also an element, which should be included, where the atmosphere is overcast and dull. Surprisingly, there were a vast number of female Gothic authors. Mary Shelley was one and she used some of the most recent technological finding of her time to create Frankenstein. She has replaced the heavenly fire of the Prometheus myth ... of electricity and warmth led to the discovery of the galvanisation process, which was said to be the key to the animation of life. Mary was born in Somers Town, Great Britain, in 1797. In 1816, she and her husband ...

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