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â[The] juxtaposition of the ghastly and the everyday suggests one of the defining characteristics of the gothic genre, that of the uncanny double, the shadowy world that is the complex underbelly of familiar experienceâ(TM) â"Laura Kranzler. Di
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... '[The] juxtaposition of the ghastly and the everyday suggests one of the defining characteristics of the gothic genre, that of the uncanny double, the shadowy world that is the complex underbelly of familiar experience' -Laura Kranzler. Discuss this quote with close reference to Frankenstein. The quote above was found in the introduction to the collection of Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. The introduction goes on to describe the genre of gothic fiction and how each tale individually applies to it. In this introduction and indeed this quote, Laura Kranzler points out, as she says, the 'defining characteristics of the gothic genre...' which include the comparison and contrast of good and evil, and within the comparison there is the discovery of darkness and impurity far beyond what could be found in other genres. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein does not stray far from its gothic genre beginnings. Her use of contrasts
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