How does Mary Shelley use elements of the Gothic in Chapter 5 to create an atmosphere of tension and dread? Victor Frankenstein is an obsessed scientist trying to create a living human being. parts of corpses. He uses corpse parts because he had to get them from a place where no one would know because it was illegal. This is why he obtained his body parts from criminals who had been hanged. However, everything does not go as planned, the monster comes to life and tries to fit in with everyone. He is nice to them and all he wants is to make friends. Therefore, when people see him, they see him as a vicious monster who will harm them, they don't realize that all he wants is to fit in. For example, he lived in the woods in stables for a while, he observed a family through a crack in the wall and learned to read, write and live like a human being. One night the monster came out and spent the whole night picking all the potatoes for them. In the morning, the family rushed outside and saw all the potatoes lying around in their cart. Their first instinct was that it was a spirit that lived in the woods. They then left him gifts outside to say thank you. In Frankenstein, Shelley tried to show that a person is shaped by how they are treated and by their environment. She wanted people to understand that Frankenstein's monster was born as a baby, innocent and free, and she showed the reader in the novel that it was how he was treated that made him who he was. The way the monster was created would have been considered immoral by the reader, even though it clearly wasn't evil to begin with, despite the way it was created. However, the way it appeared led people...in the middle of the newspaper...impact on the reader such as "dreary", it makes the reader imagine the scene. Mary Shelley's background affected the novel because when she was younger her mother died and so she had this in mind when she was writing the novel, this could have affected some of the words she used. Shelley's fear and anxieties are also shown in the novel because she was afraid of giving birth to a deformed child; moreover, in the novel, the monster is deformed when he is “born”. Mary Shelley uses the Gothic to add tension and dread in chapter five because the Gothic is associated with dark and depressing things like death. Gothic is also known for things like churches and monsters. These fit well with chapter five because when the monster is created, Frankenstein is in an old church. Additionally, the atmosphere is dark and foggy; it will make the reader tense.