Mary Shelley

Gotische Geschichten Mary Shelley

The stories are wrapped in a romantic atmosphere and try to describe characters whose most conspicuous element is being subjected to the influence of strong passions, which sometimes give rise to supernatural or extremely extraordinary events, or are the product of this type of event. . Thus, in The Transformation, a strong pride becomes the tyrant who moves all the acts of the protagonist of the story, which leads him to an extraordinary situation, in whose description all the elements abound that give the reader the aesthetic sensation of the sublime. In another story, The Dream, what leads to the extraordinary act is an intense conflict between two opposing passions, and in The Immortal Mortal it is jealousy that leads the protagonist to commit an act that will lead him to a more conflictive and intense sentimental situation., which marks the end of the story. Both the exposition of characters constituted by an abnormal and deformed passionate structure and the description of the extraordinary and horrible situations that these characters bring about, which tend to impress the reader, place all these stories at the very center of the Gothic.