Frankenstein: Volume III - Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Victor begins Victor and Elizabeth wander the grounds of the cottage, but Victor is apprehensive of the creature's arrival. He worries that Elizabeth may be disturbed by the creatures appearance and by the fight, and tells her to retire. Victors searches for the creature throughout the house, then suddenly hears Elizabeth scream. He realises that it was not his murder that the creature wanted to commit that night. Consumed by grief, Victor returns to Geneva to tell his father of Elizabeth's death. Victor's father dies a few days later from shock. Victor breaks his secrecy and tells a magistrate about the monster and how it killed Elizabeth, but the magistrate doesn't believe him. Victor decides to devote his life to finding and killing the monster.

What makes it gothic?

• Revenge - the creature kills Victors new wife as a result of not being permitted a mate
• Death - Elizabeth and Victors father; the deaths of the two people closest to Victor
• Release of tension - Victor finally tells someone about his secret