Gothic Protaganist? – Frankenstien

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Has distinct contrasting qualities to their character.
-They have different qualities in there personality.
Diffrent personality traits. He cuts up body but then feels guilty about it. “so deeply I was engrossed in my occupation… My work drew near to a close and now everyday showed me more painly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety”
Usually of a high social rank or holds a position of power.
-‘Big dog’
The male has a higher social rank than the female. He travels around the world, owns a villa – rich.  “When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa.”
Often surrounded by devices that foreshadow something negative.
-Text of doom.
His emotions are formed and spoken about like a lake, river, train. Saying that they are flowing from somewhere. Chooses to dismiss the warnings. “Fatal impulse that led to my ruin”
Driven by strong emotions rather than logic or reason.
-There is no real reason to why they do these things.
He has no idea why he’s doing these things but he is getting drawn to them.

He stops every thing to go and do chemistry at uni, but something draws him to leave and work in a funeral home, the devotes life to bring back the dead.

“No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.”
“Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the dis- covery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!” 
Generally secretive or surrounded by air of mysyery.
-Dodgy
Keeping secrets He doesn’t have many friends and he doesn’t tell anyone about his experiment.

My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.

Has a need to know or curious nature.
-Nosey
Curious Fake towards others, Once he has his mind set, he goes for it.

Thee world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.

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