The Art Of Interpreting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

I am reading Empty Places by Kathy Cannon Wiechman (my great aunt) and I am on page 104. This book is about a young girl whose name is Adabel, her older sister, Raynelle, her older brother, Pick, and her younger sister, Blissie. Adabel and her siblings have a mom who leaves them, and their dad who is a drunk. It takes place in Harlan County, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Adabel has many places in her life that are empty, especially after her brother leaves the family after their dad beats him up. Adabel tries to remember what her mother looks like but she has no recollection. Adabel tries to find out the truth about her mother to figure out why she abandons them. Is the truth worth searching for? In this paper I will be predicting

John is sitting in his room by himself reading the book ruined book “Frankenstein”. Then the door swings open, it is Lenina she staggers in like a lost dog.

Frankenstein is a book written by Mary Shelley in 1818, that is revolved around a under privileged scientist named Victor Frankenstein who manages to create a unnatural human-like being. The story was written when Shelley was in her late teen age years, and was published when she was just twenty years old. Frankenstein is filled with several different elements of the Gothic and Romantic Movement of British literature, and is considered to be one of the earliest forms of science fiction. Frankenstein is a very complicated and complex story that challenges different ethics and morals on the apparent theme of dangerous knowledge. With the mysterious experiment that Dr. Victor Frankenstein conducted, Shelly causes her reader to ultimately ask

judged him (Penetrating). But as he grows for the better he realizes that there is something missing in his life, a woman.

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.

We react with ambivalence to this question because we have been exposed to both sides of the story, which is a rarity in most cases. Shelley represents the creature as truly monstrous and evil through the eyes of Victor Frankenstein, which gives readers the opportunity to view Frankenstein as the hero. It is only when we read the creature’s account that we began to feel both sympathy and even empathy for the struggles he has encountered. The creature never asked to be born and continually suffers at the hands of other throughout the novel. It is hard not to feel sympathy with someone who is so childlike and “new” to the world. Especially when the creature cries out in agony: “‘Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your’s, more horrid from its very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested’” (Shelley, 91). The creature also goes on to say: “‘Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?’” (Shelley, 95). How could one not feel sympathy for someone who hated themselves? Humans have experienced such feelings of loneliness and isolation. The creature even says that Satan, of all people, had friends, but he is so hideous that he is utterly alone in the world. All

Mary Shelley wrote her first novel, Frankenstein, in 1818, using a mixture of gothic and romantic conventions. Shelley depicts a complex relationship between a creator, Victor Frankenstein, and his creation. While the romantic setting helps to characterize Frankenstein and his creation, the dark gothic nature of the work helps to build suspense. While Frankenstein and his creation are talking for the first time, their true emotions toward one another are revealed. Through the use of various literary techniques, Shelley conveys the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his creation as one absorbed with deep hatred and misunderstanding established through assumptions.

Although Frankenstein is a fictional story, I think in many ways it is representative of Mary Shelley personal views in her everyday life. Mary Shelley was raised by her father after her mother passed and because of that they always had a rocky relationship even after her father remarried. Mary fell in love with one of her father’s political followers, Percy Shelley and they got married although her father did not approve of their relationship because of the age difference. Throughout their relationship, they faced many obstacles that made it hard for their relationship to work, but it did. This aspect of her relationship is show through Elizabeth in the novel because it shows how hard women will work to make a relationship work even when

In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, she shows that good people can turn evil, but are not born this way. Humans being rude and isolating someone can make a person go insane and do things they are not proud of. Shelley shows this through the creature that Frankenstein creates and gives examples showing his evilness, but also shows that the creature tries to explain many times that he wants a friend and cannot find one because of his appearance and why he does things that are not of good character through the eyes of human beings.

Frankenstein is a Gothic science fiction novel, written by Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley was born in 1797. Both of Shelleys’ parents were writers, leading to some of the background to her writing ability. In 1816, Mary, her husband, Percy, Lord Byron, and two others met in a retreat in Switzerland. While they were there, they challenged each other to write ghost stories. Branching off of the odd dare, Frankenstein was published two years later in 1818. Victor, the main character, and his thirst for knowledge, lead him to create something that destroyed his life. In Frankenstein, Victor deserves the blame for the destruction throughout the book because he irresponsibly created a monster with no plan to follow, he set it free with no supervision or guidance, and Victor had no control over the lost lives of his loved ones, taken by the monster.

Faith and love are integral parts of the King community and Christianity in general. Social justice is a product sparked by the combustion of these two elements. Sitting in my Zimbabwean primary school, I learned about the history of South Africa and apartheid; these laws left South Africa covered with dark clouds. However, a light shines its brightest in darkness, so as my teacher revealed the extraordinary life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, I felt inspired and saw the good in the world.

Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley is about a Creature born in an unaccepting world. It became an influence on Tim Burton and his movie Edward Scissorhands, moved by the sadness of the Creature trying to fit into society, he creates a monster of his own. Mary Shelley and Tim Burton use literary and cinematic elements to show that isolation from society will destroy your relationship with others.

Frankenstein was a story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley while she was on her vacation in Switzerland with her husband. The story got published in 1818 without letting the public about the author. It was in 1831 when the novel revised edition was out and Mary Shelley name mentioned as an author. The novel focused on social, cultural and political facet of the societies during Mary’s lifetime. The fictional character in the novel clearly shows the battle against the pre-established people’s attitude during that time. Religion and science always create a controversy in the society with religion always differencing from any scientific principles and experiments. Shelley’s tried to addresses the above controversy and showed how science and modern technology is sometimes wrong. She tried to show how scientists and inventors are sometimes selfish only care for achieving their plan without evaluating the end result.

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.