Victor Frankenstein felt very classical and dramatic to me. His language was very flourishy and vivid. I'm surprised that female characters played more subdued and minor roles in the story since the author was female herself. It was very classical and very wordy, a bit hard for me to wrap my head around at times. Choosing to start and end the novel with letters gave it an element of classic realism, like we were experiencing the events similar to the characters.
In terms of 'Gothicness,' it had a very classical feeling. Old ships, brains and corpses, passionate and emotional doctors and scientists, and flighty females. There's death, decay and madness, quintessential horror if you ask me.
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