Analyzing The Poem 'Making Frankenstein'

Frankenstein is a greatly male oriented novel, with woman as the side characters. The multiple woman in Frankenstein unknowingly shape the novel to what the world knows it today. The entire story would not exist without Margaret and the letters that she receives from her brother. Justine Moritz the one who took the fall for the monsters murder. Agatha and Safie who showed the creature kindness and educated it. Elizabeth, who greatly influenced Victor by just existing. The role women have in Frankenstein is more important than one may think.

Friends will determine the direction and quality of your life. Loneliness is a battle that all people will once face at a certain point in their life; it is how they handle it that determines the outcome of that battle. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein loneliness is the most significant and prevailing theme throughout the entire novel. Shelley takes her readers on a wild journey that shows how loneliness can end in tragedy.

"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.

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

In the poem “Making Frankenstein” the poem dramatizes between confusion and the desire to belong. Wyatt Prunty, the author of the poem, sets the tale during the childhood of a young boy. In “summer 1957” the young boy pleads to his mother and father to watch the movie “The Curse of Frankenstein” which had lots of dense material for a young boy. Despite the parents saying, “He could not, no he could not, no” the naive boy, “wheedled and cajoled, begged, and promised” his parents to go. The vulgar scenes of the movie made him, “woke up screaming”. The nightmares are where the journey begins for the boy after his father states the material was “too anatomical”. This word made the boy curious and confused his perspective on life. As the boy learned about the anatomy of the human body through, “... an old foxed Gray's Anatomy” he was certain about his place in the world.

The poem “Making Frankenstein” dramatizes the conflict between, not only, curiosity and fear, but also, confusion and the need to belong. The narrator is flashing back to a anecdote of his childhood which ultimately leads him to see how alike his father and he are.

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.

The story starts as four letters. A man is writing to his sister, she is in England. He is far from home. He is searching for a new discovery in science.  He’s heading north, on a ship.  People say that it’s a dangerous journey. The story is written in the last letter Mr.Walton wrote to his sister.

Fictionally, the greatest-written villains in history possess attributes that give them cause for their behavior, with the most universal and essential of these core traits being a deep, personal backstory behind their acts. For instance, in classic stories like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Monster presents thorough reason to its Creator in terms of why it has turned to wickedness. The Monster does not kill purely for the sake of being evil, its actions are resulted from its desire to be loved by man, yet failing at every attempt to achieve it. Motivation behind monstrous acts is necessary in works of fiction because non-fictionally, people labeled as monsters by society possesses motivation behind their actions as well, whether it be

Modern society values the pursuit of passion; it is generally regarded as worthwhile and beneficial. However, a fine line separates passion from obsession. “Passion” is an extravagant desire for something. By contrast, “obsession” carries more sinister connotations. Particularly, it occurs when a persistent desire dominates an individual’s reason. An impassioned mind easily becomes obsessive when the desire grows into an uncontrollable ambition. Moreover, absolute obsession can be dangerous; specifically, the fixation on a single idea can lead to impaired moral judgement. Victor Frankenstein kindles a passion for natural philosophy, devoting hours to study the works of famous alchemists. As the years pass, Victor’s curiosity in natural science becomes a seeming obsession, setting the stage for the disastrous outcomes in the novel. The tragedies that transpire in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are direct consequences of Victor’s obsessive pursuit in science, as demonstrated through his self-imposed isolation from society, the creature’s countless rejection, and the demise of Victor and his family. Therefore, Victor’s unbridled scientific ambition clearly illustrates the dangers of an obsessive mind and the horror it can bring upon.

A father who abandons his child from birth deprives himself of future happiness. In Victor Frankenstein 's case, he abandons the creature he created at birth, which alters his previously happy-go-lucky life to a miserable wreck. To elucidate this issue, the young and inexperienced creature finds himself rejected by society because of his terrifying appearance. His inability to fix his appearance marks the beginning of his self-loathing. Moreover, the creature 's good deeds are always met with hostility, further aggravating his limited patience. He now swears revenge against humanity. At last, the creature 's unrelenting struggle to persuade his creator to bestow him a female companion proves to be futile. Unable to find a being capable of understanding him, the creature swallows what humanity he had left and turns into the ultimate wretch. Accordingly, in Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein, the initially kind-hearted creature becomes a wretched spawn of Satan who seeks retribution against his creator because of his inability to coexist with humans.

Alienation is a product of society’s inherently discriminatory bias, catalyzed by our fear of the unknown in the realm of interpersonal conduct. Mary Shelley, in her novel, Frankenstein, dissects society’s unmerited demonization of individuals who defy—voluntarily or involuntarily—conventional norms. Furthermore, through her detailed parallel development of Frankenstein and his monster, Shelley personifies the tendency to alienate on the basis of physical deformity, thereby illustrating the role of the visual in the obfuscation of morality.

To be intellectually before one’s time is an extraordinary accomplishment, but for Mary Shelley, it is more impressive to write a one-of-a-kind ghost story. Shelley created a thought-provoking storyline through the eyes of scientist Victor Frankenstein. Written in the 19th century, Shelley’s book became a memorizing read, unheard of from women. In her world-known novel Frankenstein, the scientist fulfills his goals of giving life to a spirit-less body, playing God. With this accomplishment, he kick-starts a gothic and bloody journey and is forced protect his family and friends by attempting to end the life of his creation. Shelley opens up the reader’s eyes to see what they truly are: human. Her purpose is to reveal the dark workings inside the human mind. She uses a new writing style, simple but strong tone, powerful themes and relationships to bring awareness to some of the common, disturbing and affectionate characteristics that make humans who they are.

Every work is a product of its time. Indeed, we see that in Frankenstein, like in the world which produced its author, race, or the outward appearances on which that construct is based, determines much of the treatment received by those at all levels of its hierarchy. Within the work, Mary Shelley, its author, not only presents a racialized view of its characters, but further establishes and enforces the racial hierarchy present and known to her in her own world. For the few non-European characters, their appearance, and thus their standing in its related hierarchy, defines their entrances into the narrative. For the Creature, this occurs on the ices of the Artic, when, “atop a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile;” Walton and his men perceived, “a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature.” (Shelley 13) Shelley clarifies, even this early in her novel, the race of its principal Other as soon after the intrepid adventurers rescue its namesake, Victor Frankenstein, who, Shelley clarifies, “was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but an European.” (Shelley 14) Later, closer examination of the Creature reveals a visage and figure of near unimaginable disfigurement, with a “shrivelled complexion,” and yellow skin which “scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath.” (Shelley 35) This could be contrasted directly

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.