The two most powerful elements used in any gothic novel are setting and mood. In the novels Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein, setting and mood are the two most effective elements employed. Bronte and Shelley use desolate isolation, untamed geography, death and passionate revenge to identify these components.         The setting of a gothic novel has been described as, 'usually a large mansion or remote castle which is dark and foreboding: usually isolated from neighbors' In Wuthering …showed first 75 words of 528 total…

…showed last 75 words of 528 total…downfall determined by something other that themselves. The protagonists struggle against their fate with sheer power of will, but they must almost consciously sound their own destruction. The passionate and calculated revenge of Heathcliff and Frankenstein's creature wreak havoc on those around them, but does nothing to help these two characters enhance their own existence. Few novels provide a better example of the close relationship between setting, mood, and characters than Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein.