How does Mary Shelley use elements of the Gothic in Chapter 5 to create an atmosphere of tension and terror? Victor Frankenstein is an obsessed scientist who is trying to create a living human out of dead body parts. He uses body parts because he had to get them from somewhere where no one would find out because it was illegal. Therefore he obtained his body parts from criminals who had been hanged. But not everything goes according to plan, the Monster comes to life and tries to integrate with everyone else. He is kind to them and all he wants to do is make friends. As a result, when people see him, they see him as a ferocious monster who will harm them, they don't realize that all he wants to do is fit in. For example, he lived for a while in the woods in a stable, observed a family through a crack in the wall, and learned to read, write, and live like a human being. One night the Monster went out and spent the whole night picking all the potatoes for them. In the morning the family ran out and saw all the potatoes in the wagon. Their first instinct was that it was a spirit living in the woods. Then they left gifts outside to thank him. In Frankenstein, Shelley tried to show that a person is shaped by how he is treated and by his environment. He wanted people to understand that Frankenstein's monster was born as a child, innocent and free, and in the novel he showed the reader that it was the way he was treated that made him who he was. The way the monster was created would be seen as immoral by the reader, even though he clearly wasn't evil to begin with, despite the way he was created. However the way it appeared brought people… to the center of the paper… impacting the reader as “sad”, this makes the reader imagine the scene. Mary Shelley's background influenced the novel because when she was younger her mother died, so she had this in mind when writing the novel, this could have influenced 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; furthermore in the novel the monster is deformed when 'born'. Mary Shelley uses Gothic to add tension and terror in chapter five because Gothic is associated with dark and depressing things like death. Gothic is also known for things like churches and monsters. These fit well into chapter five because when the monster Frankenstein is created he is in an old church. Furthermore, the atmosphere is dark and foggy; this will make the reader feel tense.