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Look at the significance of Chapter 5 to the novel as a whole.

In the novel ‘Frankenstein,' chapter 5 is seen as crucial; as it is here that the real story of revenge and consequence starts.
Chapter 5 is seen as an imperative chapter, this is because it is in this part of the novel that the creation is brought to life, first described as "his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;" his creator then flees from his laboratory and apartment onto the streets in fear. Victor later whence walking the lonely streets of Ingolstadt meets with his old friend Henry Clerval from Geneva. Henry sees that Victor is ill and nurses him for the next few months.
Chapter 5 introduces the first components that we, (the audience) use to identify the book as having a gothic genre. The opening of chapter 5 is "It was on a dreary night of November" and then follows with "the rain pattered dismally against the panes." Both quotations suggest a dark, gloomy, gothic......

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