Week One Frankenstein and the Gothic

I’ve read the ‘White ship’. Gothic horrors are usually heading toward to sulky horror feeling, and they start with legends pass by mouth to mouth like in ‘White Ship’. In the ‘white Ship’, there is a bearded man telling the main character Basil Elton, about the wonders of secret place above sunken slimy rocks far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse. Main character goes journey, but just like usual Gothic horror, which is one of the characteristic of Gothic horror, it goes wrong by the poor decision of main character, which is going further than what the bearded man told Basil to go. It also characterized by happening in fictional fantasy world, and internal struggle, sub-consciousness of characters. Gothic horror usually centered with gore creatures, but this one is only involved in fantasy world. It was quite interesting to know that main character get punished by their poor decision not only happened in recent horror movies but in old Gothics also.