Analyzing Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

Frankenstein thinks that everything is alright now, but Elizabeth has a premonition that the monster will return, and she warns her fiancé that she fears some harm is going to befall him. At the same time, during the entire village’s celebration, the father of the dead girl carries her lifeless body though the streets for all to see. The shock crowd stops its celebration, stunned and outraged over the death of Maria, and they demand justice from The Burgomaster (mayor) and local police. By nightfall, the angry mob has organized into torch carrying search parties to find the murderer. Frankenstein is determined to destroy the creature, and leads one of several groups looking for the monster, up the mountainous terrain.

In this excerpt from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a lot of power and emotion is put into the writing. This selection is an important moment in the story, and the author uses many rhetorical devices to capture her readers and put them in the scene. By using a sense of parallelism, imagery, and intense description, along with pacing helps put the audience into Victor’s experience of horror.

"A Hermit is simply a person to whom society has failed to adjust itself." (Will Cuppy). In the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley we follow the life of Victor Frankenstein in 18th century Germany. Shelley displays a recurring theme of isolation and how it drives once good people to do terrible things. If civilization does not adjust itself to a creature of any kind they will be forced into isolation and ultimately self destruction.

Shelley addresses romantic conventions in Victor to convey his loss of identity. Victor is impatient and restless when constructing the creation, so much, that he does not think about it’s future repercussions. One of the great paradoxes that Shelley’s novel depicts is giving the monster more human attributes than to it’s creator [p. 6 - Interpretations]. This is true as the monster seeks an emotional bond, but Victor is terrified of it’s existence. The monster later reveals, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurred at and kicked and trampled on [Shelley, p. 224].” Victor’s lack of compassion is rooted from the inability to cope with his reality. He distances himself from others and is induced with fainting spells [Shelley, p. 59]. From this, the nameless creature exemplifies Victor’s attempt to abandon his creation to escape his responsibilities. His creation is described as, ‘wretched devil’ and ‘abhorred monster,’ eliciting that the unobtainable, pitied identity [Shelley, p. 102]. The act of not naming the creature reveals Victor as hateful, and unnaturally disconnected to his own created victim.

Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein is a riveting story that not only succeeded in captivating the reader 's attention, but also comments on societal views on “Good” and “Evil”. The story draws a parallel between the main character Victor Frankenstein and his creation The Crauter. The novel undoubtedly contains evil and acts of evil yet it is not apparent who is the true “Monster”; the creator or the creation. Victor Frankenstein is a selfish man who, out of a surplus in ego, created something that should have never lived. That creation, the creature, went on to commit murder and bring a real sense of hell on Earth to those whom he surrounded himself with. So, the question is asked “who is more evil, Frankenstein or his creation?” The crux of

John Locke is one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and is famously known for asserting that all humans have natural rights. He also believed that humans are born with clean slates, and that the environment humans grow in, especially at a young age, has massive influences on aspects of their personalities, ideals, and motivations. Shelley was most definitely influenced by this claim when writing Frankenstein. As the reader, we can see the monster that Victor Frankenstein creates grow up alone, without guidance, and be formed by the experiences it is put through while trying to survive. Its emotions and beliefs throughout the book were merely a result of its experiences as it encounters the harsh reality of the world. Mary

In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the creation, made from scraps of corpses, was built by Victor Frankenstein, a man fascinated and obsessed with the knowledge of life. Following the creation’s rouse, Victor immediately abandons him with no desire on keeping or teaching his new being. Because of his lack of nourishment and direction “growing up”, the creation goes through a process of self-deception. He endures a period of deceit by believing that he is a normal human being like everyone around him. But as time progresses, he learns to accept how he is alone in this world and disconnected with everyone. Because of the creation’s lack of guidance and isolation, he grows up feeling unwanted.

The creature pays very close attention to the humans. He notices everything they do, and picks up on the things they say. The creature assumes they have no reason to be sad or cry because they have food and nice clothes. In the fourth paragraph he says “I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but i was deeply affected by it.” That specific sentence shows how he truly cares about others and what type of creature he actually is. During the night he took their tools and bought them wood back.

I thought that ‘Frankenstein’ was really interesting and that if I had the chance I would read it my whole life and continue to read it and watch the movie my whole life. Not only would I read it with my cousins and my aunt and uncle I would read it with my brothers and parents. I thought it would be a great read and would be an interesting thing to be reading. I also thought that it would be a history type of book. Yes, it did live up to my expectations because it was an interesting read and it was entertaining. No, because it was not part history like I thought it was going to be. I would recommend it to all of my friends because it was a really entertaining book that I think that they would like it so yes I would recommend it to some

In the novel Frankenstein by Marry Shelley, it is apparent that a lack of knowledge along with an abundance of knowledge can lead to the destruction of relationships that are ideal for a happy life. The theme of corruption through knowledge is a recurring literary device throughout the novel. This corruption compels the reader to question whether or not it is beneficial to have the vast amount of knowledge that Victor has.

Frankenstein is one of the beast gothic novels written by Mary Shelley. In the year 2014 Frankenstein became a movie and it became popular in that time. The novel and the movie are not totally the same. There are some parts in the book that similar to the movie. The doctor name Victor Frankenstein is curious about life and he wants to study about life and it happens both in the book and the movie. In the film Victor creates human being from a dead human body, like in the book.

Quote: He stated “I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe…..I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation–deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”(Page 88).

1. Mary Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797 in London, England by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a famous feminist, but unfortunately died shortly after Shelley 's birth. William Godwin, her father, raised her and her half sister. A tension grew between her and her family when her father remarried and had another child. She loved to daydream and was a very imaginative child. In 1814, Mary fell in love and ran away with Percy Shelley. In the mean time, and at the age of 21, she wrote her novel Frankenstein. Shelley and her husband, as of 1816, attempted to have children several times, and finally succeeded with Percy Florence, who was the only one to live to adulthood. Unfortunately, her husband drowned just 3 years after their son 's birth. ("Mary Shelley" Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015)

One major fault in humanity is the controversy and conflict over who claims responsibility when things go wrong. Elaborate and often dysfunctional court systems have been established over time to offer legal answers to the questions of responsibility however, even these are insufficient and controversial. In her gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley utilizes mystery and horror to chronicle the story of a creator and his responsibility to his creation. Shelley develops questions of responsibility by examining just how much responsibility the creator has to its creation and how much responsibility the creation has to its creator. The lack of understanding and agreement over the answers to these questions causes conflict in the novel and continues to cause conflict to this day as the figure of Frankenstein emerges as the symbolic embodiment of social problems.

Introduction: Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is a book with a deep message that touches to the very heart. This message implies that the reader will not see the story only from the perspective of the narrator but also reveal numerous hidden opinions and form a personal interpretation of the novel. One of its primary statements is that no one is born a monster and a “monster” is created throughout socialization, and the process of socialization starts from the contact with the “creator”. It is Victor Frankenstein that could not take the responsibility for his creature and was not able to take care of his “child”. Pride and vanity were the qualities that directed Victor Frankenstein to his discovery of life: “...So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein-more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation”[p.47]. He could not cope with this discovery and simply ignored it. The tragedy of Victor Frankenstein and the tragedy of his creature is the same – it is the tragedy of loneliness and confronting the world, trying to find a place in it and deserve someone’s love. The creature would have never become a monster if it got the love it strived for. Victor Frankenstein would have never converted his creature into a monster if he knew how to love and take responsibility for the ones we bring to this world.