Gothic Elements in Frankenstein

• Elements of mystery and suspense 
• Settings 
• Flashes of lightening  
• thunderstorms
• Baying of dogs 
• Death of dogs 
• “fear of the unknown”
• Animal sense that there is something out there - the dogs try to get off the lease
• Colour
• Dark colours, only the blood add colours, fire 
• Shadows, dark colours 
• Dark candle light 

• arrogance 
• music - film technique 
• Thinking that you can do something that a mere mortal cannot 
• Even in a happy scene, 
• there is lightening (on top of the mountain)
• Dancing scene still shadows and dark colours, dim lighting 
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• Goes to the attic 
• Cave like, mysterious, dingy, dark
• reference to forbidden knowledge 
• Shadowy, mysterious figure 
• Creepy environment 
• People have done experiments in the past 
• You must tell no one 
• Illegal scientific experiments 
• Treading on moral/immoral, legal, illegal 
• when the hand grabs the man and it doesn’t work
• A sign that this is dangerous 

USE OF COLOUR 

• throughout the film, there are always dark colours
• The clothes of the characters are all dark/grey colours 
• Even when something happy or exciting happens, the colours are still dark/grey
• The only colour in some scenes are fire, shadows of grey, fire
• A lot of red (blood) in the bloody scenes.
• Dark candlelight in most scenes 

MUSIC 

• ‘dark’ music’
• Never happy music
• Music adds suspense (which is a gothic film technique)
• Music adds depth to the film without the audience realizing (because they are not paying attention to the music, but instead the set or characters dialogue 

EASE OF DEATH 

• many people are hung throughout the film (the characters act as though it is the norm)
• Death of the dogs (unnatural monster which kills the dog)
• The way the monster talks about killing Frankensteins brother (choking him)
• Death of the lady that was accused of killing frankensteins brother (she did not get a trial, or to defend herself - they just killed her straight away)
• Death of the mother at the beginning of the film (she was displayed on camera while frankenstein was still in the scene)
• Dealing with the corpses of dead people in medical school 
• Dealing with the corpses while creating frankensteins monster