Examples Of Horror Tropes In Frankenstein

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There are a lot of classic horror tropes in Frankenstein that would classify it as a part of the horror genre. The two elements of the book that evoke fear in the reader that I will be focusing on are the murders themselves and the feelings and questions that this story challenges.

The most obvious reason that Frankenstein falls into the horror genre is because of the killings that the creature commits. The horror genre is typically filled with lots of gruesome and unnecessary death, both of which the novel is full of. The first death comes with the creature killing William. At first, we are not sure of the motive and if it was really the creature that killed him, but later the creature reveals to Victor that it was in fact him who killed