Frankenstein's Gothic Motif Rousseau's ideology of nurture and nature laid the foundation for many of the Gothic novels. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, managed to build a bridge of thought capable of bridging the abyss formed by the age of reason between the supernatural and reason. As a predecessor of the Romantic movement, the Gothic novel was a direct reaction against the Age of Reason. The predominant idea of ​​the age is that the world governed by nature is rationally ordered and given man's ability to reason, analyze and understand nature, man possesses the innate ability to use nature to create a rational society based on the dominant principles of nature. The Gothic novel allowed the reader to move from reason and the agenda to a region born of the supernatural that inspired terror and abounds in death and decay as nature's only true end. In Frankenstein, Shelley is able to create the antithesis of nature from various aspects of nature itself, creating a monster born from death and decay but wrapped in Rousseau's ideology. "It was on a sad November night that I saw the result of my labors. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony,... I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; labored breathing and a convulsive movement agitated its limbs" (page 56). What was created that night was a creature of vast intellect, raised and educated in the harshest conditions: Nature. From the decadence that is the ambivalent end of nature emerged a creature that was the antithesis of all that is natural. Mary Shelley had carefully chosen her genre, the Gothic novel was the only terrain on which to stage the game between reason and the dark regions of horror. The premises were prepared for the creature to take on the entire educational philosophy of Rousseau who stated: "We are born weak, we need strength; defenseless, we need help; foolish, we need reason. Everything that we lack at birth, all we need when we arrive at the condition of man is the gift of nature. This education comes to us from nature, from men, or from things. God makes all things good and man meddles in them" ( page 143). This allows society to view the creature with supernatural awe, disgusted by the most terrible characters of nature, decay and death, even when they form life..