Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Wallace, Miriam
Area of Concentration
English
Abstract
Anne Radcliffe’s work “On the Supernatural In Poetry” put into words an idea based in the early 19th century’s focus on gothic horror of the difference between terror and horror as literary concepts. This difference reflects into the most prominent work to emerge from this gothic horror period, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Within Shelley’s work, terror is formed through depictions of loneliness. Shelley’s concept of the Frankenstein’s monster carrie’s over into other cultures as well, adapting the premise to demonstrate ideas of terror relevant within their differing social fears. Ahmed Saadawi’s novel Frankenstein in Baghdad uses the format to demonstrate terrors unique to late 2000s Iraq, demonstrating a struggle with Iraqi identity and a banality of violence.
Recommended Citation
Golden, Elliot, "I TOO CAN CREATE DESOLATION: TERROR AND CULTURE THROUGH FRANKENSTEIN" (2022). Theses & ETDs. 6230.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6230