The significance of the confrontation with the monstrous and of the way the monstrous is embodied in Frankenstein

3 Unit English - Mary Shelly's Frankenstein "One productive way of thinking about the Gothic genre is in terms of the way it stages a confrontation with the elements of the monstrous within our ordinary social experience. What, in your opinion, is the significance of this confrontation with the monstrous and of the way the monstrous is embodied in Frankenstein?" In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, there are many confrontations with the elements of the monstrous. Monstrosity is …

…the monstrous within our ordinary social experience are very significant due to the fact that they nudge us out of misrecognition of the monstrous, it makes us acknowledge the monstrous and do something about it when we usually dismiss the irrational in our rational world and the confrontation with the monstrous also opens our eyes to the monstrous that is already ever so present around us in society or the monstrous that lies within ourselves.