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Frankeinstein: Volume 1 Chapter 4 by Mary Shelly (1818).

Victor has just finished. His creatures comes to life. In the first paragraph we can point out a gothic atmosphere in this text. In effect, we can see: "The rain patterea dismally against the panes and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light". In second, it contradicts himself because he said: "his hair was of a lustrous black; his teeth of a paerly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with watery eyes". 

dim -> obscure = gloomy

a stake = a pole = a post

haunted castle

shadows

colours of: the complexion 

pasty: white

a stitch

toils -> labour = work

Frankestein's monster.

His hair has long and black with greasy. The monster has got a skin deteriorated or decayed because he is coated with stitches. The color of his skin is pasty. He is not fat neither large nor bulky. He's tall, very tall; "I'd say, at last seven feet". He has got bolts through his neck. His head block. He has got blooshot eyes with small irisis. Then he has got scars on his face. The creator of the monster is depited: beautiful/horrible. It's a ambience obscure at the night of catastrophe (creation) or the accomplishment of his hard labourer.