- Witnesses' account has gothic elements: 'ten o'clock', 'dark night', 'moon had not yet risen'.
- Young man of 25 found dead on the shore, strangled, with black finger marks, the Creature's. Corruption of inmnocence; death to a 'handsome young man' by the hands of the murderer Creature
- Victor feels 'parched with horror, nor can...reflect on that moment without shuddering and agony' as he realises the body is Henry Clerval's
- Victor faints and convulses. then lays in a fever for two months, 'close to death'. Melodramatic reaction to what the monster warned him would happen
- Romantic description of death. It 'snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents'. Also relates to his own mother, who'se happiness rested on Victor's union with Elizabeth
- 'I was doomed to live' and 'I am sorry that i am still alive to feel this mysery and horror'
- the word 'dream' is repeated constantly in chapter 21 to show victor's confused state of mind. He believes the horrid past events to be all a bad dream, and wishes they were just that when he awakes to find them a reality
- Romantic sense of impending doom - 'Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer but the hangman who would gain his fee?'
- 'My father...but where is he, why does he not hasten to me?' Victor contacts his family only when he needs them, as he did so before in Volume 1. Selfish victor
- '...a fatality seems to persue you' - irony
- 'a gloomy and black melancholy...Clerval was forever before me, ghastly and murdered'. Link to Lady Macbeth's delusions/dreams, or macbeth's ghost of banquo
- 'my selfish despair' realises he is being childish perhaps?
- Victor turns to the Laudanium drug to help him sleep. He 'needs' double the dose to help him sleep well enough
- Victor's nightmares aboard the ship to Havre-De-Grace about the creature coming to kill him are negated by his father waking him up. Victor finds a 'sense of security' by his father's side
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