People tend to feel trapped when faced with insurmountable problems and challenges. This feeling, though, is magnified in Gothic literature. This is done by the use of an imperishable foe as well as a walled enclosure. One such example of this is: “Of what materials was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.” (pg 217 – 218, Frankenstein by Marry Shelley) This excerpt shows how a walled enclosure of no escape magnified the misery of Dr. Frankenstein.
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