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The term Gothic conjures up images of frightened women, graveyards, and haunted castles in the mist, popular settings for horror films. But is this what Gothic means? The Oxford Companion to English Literature defines Gothic as, “Tales ....

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... to literary scholars, elevated these horror stories into “Gothic sublime” (Bernstein 333). Specifically, the Gothic sublime symbolizes a “black hole which finally absorbs history into its own emptiness” (Bernstein 333). Gothic fiction is, quite simply, man taking a “walk on the dark side.” There is, undeniably, no novel which epitomizes the popular Gothic structure more than Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s early 19th-century masterpiece, (actually entitled, , or the Modern Prometheus). According to Greek mythology, Prometheus is a hero who steals fire from the heavens to serve man, but he is ...