In Chapter 19, there is a sense of Gothic feeling for the readers to know since Victor had mentioned that on the way to Scotland, he and Clerval had visited the tomb of Hampden.
Ruined castles
In Chapter 18, Victor and Clerval are on a trip to England and on their way down the Rhine, they see ruined castles standing on the edges of mountains, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible. This gives the readers a Gothic feeling in this chapter.
In Chapter 9, while exploring the country, Victor sees ruined castles along the way which depicts the Gothic elements in the texts of this chapter.
Dimly lit, gloomy settings
In Chapter 20, it is shown that Victor destroys the work he was allotted by the ‘monster’, causing the monster to run away. Later on, Victor thought that the ‘monster’ could possibly be coming to kill him at the very moment, so he keeps an eye out where he describes his surroundings. The description of his surroundings are connected to the Gothic theme since the description Victor had given were dark and gloomy.
In Chapter 4, it is shown that the place Victor continues to build his creation is in a solitary chamber, on top of the house and separated from all apartments, which makes the setting of this story more gloomy with the use of words such as ‘solitary’ and ‘separated’.
Women in Distress
In Chapter 16, the women in distress are Agatha and Safie since they saw the appearance of the ‘monster’ that scared them, resulting in Agatha fainting and Safie running away from the cottage.
In Chapter 1, the woman in distress is Caroline, daughter of the recently deceased Beaufort, since she had just lost her only family, her father, and now mourns in his death, in distress.
Unnatural Acts of Nature
In Chapter 2, it is shown that Victor and his family had to once retire to their house in Belrive, and is shown later on that they had witnessed a violent storm that was never seen before, which is unnatural to them.
Dungeons
In Chapter 14, De Lacey and Agatha get locked up in a dungeon because Felix had helped Muhammadan escape from prison and their imprisonment was to torture Felix for aiding a fugitive to escape.
Murder
In Chapter 23, the ‘monster’ vowed to Victor previously that he would be there at his and Elizabeth’s wedding and Victor was checking the property in search of him and sent Elizabeth into her bedroom, thinking that the ‘monster’ was after him, but he hears a scream and finds Elizabeth dead, murdered by the ‘monster’ who was staring at Victor through the window.
In Chapter 22, it is shown that Victor accepts in front of his father that he had murdered William, Justine, and Clerval using his machinations, which shows that he is trying to confess to his crimes but his father thinks that he has become mad. This displays the memory of William’s, Justine’s, and Clerval’s murders in Victor’s mind, showing some sense of Gothic in the chapter.
In Chapter 21, it is shown that Clerval is murdered by the ‘monster’ as Victor knows it but not the rest of the people who were witnesses to finding the body and seeing the ‘monster’ sail away, thinking that Victor was the murderer, similar to Justine’s situation when she was framed for William’s murder in Chapter 7.
In Chapter 17, the ‘monster’ threatens to murder his creator, Victor Frankenstein, if he doesn’t wish to comply with the ‘monster’s wish of having a female version of himself that he wants Victor to create.
In Chapter 8, Justine’s suicide by accepting her crime of killing William even though Victor knew that it was the monster who killed him. So it was a murder in the form of suicide in this case.
In Chapter 7, it is shown that Alphonse Frankenstein (Victor’s father) had sent Victor a letter regarding his return home but he informed Victor that he has to return immediately since his brother William was murdered and now Victor may expect sadness rather than happiness.
Scientific or fantastic tone
In Chapter 3, M. Waldman explains to Victor that he is pleased with Victor’s determination in knowing the field of natural philosophy and had suggested that he should participate in the current natural philosophy of chemistry rather than in the studies that he had read since M. Waldman had mentioned that they were outdated from the current times.
Wild Landscapes
In Letter 1, Robert Walton describes the place that he is willing to explore is filled with frost and desolation, which provides the reader with such Gothic elements & feelings.
Mysterious creatures
In Chapter 24, Robert Walton sees the 'monster' for the first time in his life and calls him a 'wretch' for who he is and what he had done to poor, now deceased Victor Frankenstein.
In Chapter 15, the Gothic part about it is the scene where Agatha, Felix, and Safie witness the ‘monster’ talking to De Lacey and since De Lacey was a blind man, he didn’t know about the ‘monster’s appearance. This made Agatha faint, Safie to run off from the cottage, and Felix to protect his father and start whacking the ‘monster’, showing some signs of Gothicism in the scene.
In Chapter 11, it shows that the ‘monster’ roams around the village and sees people horrified by seeing him, leading to the point that some people started to attack him and some ran away from him, showing readers more of the Gothic side of the story.
In Chapter 10, Victor explores the mountainside and sits on a bare rock, looking at the view from his position and starts to speak to himself about spirits since the view reminds him of them.
In Chapter 5, Victor creates the monster and the monster awakens and Victor starts to describe the monster as a horrible creature rather than the way he imagined it to be.
In Letter 4, Robert Walton addresses his sister about a strange incident that had occurred which was that late-night, he and his comrades had seen a person with a huge body, ride on a sled with dogs on the Arctic ice when Robert’s ship was stuck in the ice. After the person with a gigantic frame left, they had yet seen another person two hours later from that time they had seen the first one, depicting unknown strangers lurking on the Arctic ice.
