Mediation's Sleight of Hand: The Two Vectors of the Gothic in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

"3 The review places blame not on the Promethean hero but on the arbitrariness of sentimental attachments, claiming that "[T]oo often in society, those who are best qualified to be its benefactors and its ornaments, are branded by some accident with scorn, and changed, by neglect and solitude of heart, into a scourge and a curse. The Gothic may be thought of as the fear that haunts our cherished values, our cherished instincts, and thus, it is a source of freedom, an outlet, an escape, without which we would be enslaved to our beloved. [...]our fears as much as our loves are also an education, also a practice, and, as freedom must be to be truly free, at times also a trap and a ruination.