Aaron Fyler. Mrs.Schroder. English Iv. 5 December 2016.

Mary Shelley’s, gotchic novel, Frankenstein, is a story of a mans adventure out of self pity and disappointment in search for total control and ultimate power, as he wishes to escape from the realities of his past life. In this story, Victor Frankenstein’s use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos creates many moods and repsonses from Victor, himself, and the Creature he has created, which conveys emotional repsonses, persuasive actions, and appeals to logic that created this twisted and wretchedly staggering novel. Victor Frankenstein uses Pathos to effectively create an emotional response. After being reprimanded by Victor, the creature expresses how he thought Victor would respond, because, “All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the self-reliance, spirituality and individuality that Victor Frankenstein finds in nature shows the relation of nature and the human feeling; when one finds himself in nature, he is restored mentally, physically and spiritually. In the beginning of Victor’s life he is described with naturalistic metaphors and other analogies in order to give the reader a better understanding of the connection Victor has with the environment. When Victor is mourning his friends and family, he frequently avoids humanity and attempts to find health and relaxation in nature. Victor takes sustenance from nature, and it becomes his coping

Frankenstein removes himself from friends, family and society in order to absolve himself from responsibility of morals. Through efforts to maintain control and an acute fascination, Frankenstein alienates himself at an early age in the name of science. Victor is not entirely ignorant of the dangers of his self-satisfying obsession as he first regrettably reflects, “I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favorite studies. My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge” (Shelley 28). Rather than recognizing that his isolation is self-induced, Victor blames his alienation on his father’s ignorance. By controlling his relationships, he gains greater confidence in his own abilities, instead of relying on others’ companionship. Notably, evidence for Victor’s disregard toward “domestic affection” is reintroduced as he remarks, “I must absent myself from all I loved while thus employed. Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness” (Shelley 138). With selfishness at the core, Victor controls his chaos by distancing himself temporarily, so that he might reunite with his family at a later date. He is being inundated by the common belief that glorious scientific achievement comes at the cost of moral and ethical sacrifice. Victor justifies his self-alienation by means of the creature; however readers

Frankenstein, a novel first published in the year 1818, stands as the most talked about work of Mary Shelley’s literary career. She was just nineteen years old when she penned this novel, and throughout her lifetime she could not produce any other work that surpasses this novel in terms of creativity and vision. In this novel, Shelley found an outlet for her own intense sense of victimization, and her desperate struggle for love. Traumatized by her failed childbirth incidents, troubled childhood, and scandalous courtship, many of Shelley’s life experiences can be seen reflected in the novel. When discussing the character and development of the monster, Shelley launches an extensive discussion on the

Mary Shelley’s use of the elements in Frankenstein aid in developing different moods experienced throughout the novel. Habitually describing details of the existing weather, she is able to relate it to the emotions of her characters. Whether the conditions are malevolent or delightful, she never fails to help the reader recognize the indication of an emotion or incident that will soon occur in the story.

This novel reflects Shelley’s own childhood, which consisted of her feeling obligated to rebel against her own father’s wishes and his choice for her marriage. Frankenstein is a way for Shelley to tell her own experiences with parental conflict and how she feels she was affected by her demanding father and the environment she grew up in, by comparing herself to Victor’s monster. Shelley analyzed her own characteristics, and the characteristics of her father, and placed them within Victor and the

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein deeply develops the trope of nature vs. nurture. The romantic era is characterized by a desire to revert to natural animalistic living in the world. Shelley’s main characters embody nature and nurture respectively. Victor, raised in a loving home, kills with no concern and disregards his caring family. The Monster, Victor’s creation, on the other hand, is forced to live in nature like an animal with no companion. Victor is Shelley’s direct comment on the Victorian lifestyle characterized by material possession and religious moral structure. Victor embodies one who is grounded in societally constructed niceties and formalities but is corrupted by the lifestyle. The monster is shown to be the morally correct character

To conclude, in this novel nature appears to be the most significant element that always cheers Victor’s up and keeps him healthy and sanity. The setting of nature becomes fundamental since it is the only place that gives the protagonist comfort. Moreover, Victor has obsession on nature and his obsession is inane because he ignores all the people to be isolated in nature; perhaps this is one of Victor’s flaws or personality. Furthermore, being stupid and smart as in the case of Victor Frankenstein might be natural for Frankenstein to be drawn to compulsive tendency. Finally, Shelley uses excessive elements of nature in her novel as a source

As the novel continues Frankenstein decides to create a monster and the process of this creation physically as well as mentally isolates him from his new community. Frankenstein admits that "Every night [he] was oppressed by a slow fever, and [he] became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled [him], and [he] shunned [his] fellow creatures as if [he] had been utility of a crime" (Frankenstein Page 55). Once again the reader can sympathize and empathize with the pain the Frankenstein is going through from this isolation. The reader can see Frankenstein 's start of mental deterioration, generating affectionate feeling towards him. However, differently than before the reader can observe

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.

Humans are known for bestowing their judgment irrationally and based on the “book cover” of a person, they may degrade their fellow human into the worst positions of the social ladder. Mary Shelley, in her novel Frankenstein, expands on this perspective by using mood and tone to parallel with the circumstances of an event occurring in her novel with shifts throughout the context of the book, symbolized by the changes in nature and seasons. This shift is made frequently between the agonized, desperate, frightful, maybe even suicidal mood and tone with the occurrence of dreadful acts of murder and execution, to the more calming, soothing, optimistic and life-full during a physical and spiritual recovery.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has a simple origin, compared to other stories. While stories such as It by Stephen king started a several year process of creation, Frankenstein began simply as a campfire story Mary Shelley shared with her writer friends one evening. Although the origins of this novel are fairly simple, it provides an in depth psychological perspective on the darker side of human psyche through the shifting first person perspective. Usually these darker aspects are associated with the character’s personal struggles, but one specific theme in all the characters. The theme of obsession has been consistent and the central focus of the three main characters Victor, the creature, and Robert. With this central theme in mind the author, Mary Shelley shows that obsession leads to the characters suffering negative psychological and physical effects, as well as impair their decision making. This is depicted through the decline of physical and mental health through Victor’s struggles with his obsessions with knowledge and justice.

Frankenstein is about a doctor named Victor Frankenstein, who works to create life. When he finally brings a body to life, his creation brings havoc to Victor’s life. After the monster kills many characters, Victor tracks down the unnatural daemon. Eventually, Victor dies in the chase, and the sorrowful creature is found with his body. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley utilizes the theme of nature to show the meaning of peace within Victor, and to show how peace is interrupted by the unnatural monster. In the first place, Victor is at peace with nature. He says, “Nature bade me weep no more,”(Shelley 65). Victor has been disturbed by his brother’s death and has decided to take a walk to calm down. The cool breeze and light sounds soothe him, which

The use of the strength of emotions in her classic novel Frankenstein empowered Mary Shelley to build a strong connection with its readers and rule their hearts for hundreds of years today. Shelley beautifully incorporated different feelings into her writing to provide visualization of events as the readers read through pages and feel the true essence of the characters’ sensations. Some of the emotions depict the tragedies of Shelley’s own life, thus adding life to the story. In short, Shelley’s Frankenstein is an emotional roller coaster covering a wide range of human emotions from joy and sorrow to hatred and revenge, and highlighting how different experiences of lives modify these sentiments into one another.