Depression In Frankenstein Depression

            The monster's gradual descent into evil most likely follows the path of depression Mary Shelley takes in the course of her life.  First, her father is taken away, much like the separation the monster feels when Victor shuns him.  Next, she suffers the extreme losses of her half-sister and newborn, which parallels

The most frightening horror story can only be called such if it is believable. Nothing is so unnerving as lying awake at night with very real fears. No monster can harm you, unless the monster was genetically engineered by a mad scientist. The theme of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - scientific investigation without consideration of morality and responsibility - is a very relevant topic in today's world. This theme, along with the less obvious themes of revenge, prejudice against deviation from the norm, and fate all make Frankenstein one of the most unique and terrifying horror novels ever.

The life of the monster can be related to the motherless life led by Shelley. Shelley’s mother too left her as soon as she was born, and as a result, she had quite an arduous life. Combined with her father’s financial woes, her tumultuous relationship with her stepmother meant that Shelley did not have an ideal childhood, which would have had a serious impact on her personality. She had to put up with a lot of miseries when she grew up, and was subjected to lifelong condemnation from the society because of her affair with the married Shelley.

"It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half-frightened as it were instinctively, finding myself so desolate" (Shelley 68) For the monster it is the constant rejection and its abandonment by Frankenstein at birth that leads it to loneliness and extreme anxiety. "In all probability, the creature was reaching out, as a small child does to their mother, but his ugly appearance only frightened Victor into running away" (Coulter) The main reason for its rejection is the monster’s outward appearance. The rejection by humans in general and specifically by its creator only increases the monsters feelings of loneliness, emotional abandonment, and, as a result, anger.

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein suffers from severe depression caused by his loneliness and self loathing. In the beginning of the book this depression is something he is able to overcome, but throughout the book the depression becomes worse and worse, further sinking down and causing him to be immutably depressed. Frankenstein becomes so depressed after he creates the monster and the monster begins killing his friends and family. When this happens, he isolates himself and shuts himself out from the rest of the world causing him to become increasingly lonely. On top of all this Frankenstein loathes himself because he played god and he feels as though he killed the people the monster killed. On page 166 Frankenstein

Frankenstein has changed many times over the years to now be known as a happy green man named Frankenstein with two bolts sticking out of his head. If you mention Frankenstein to a random person they will think of the monster even though it is the last name of the creator, but just like the original fairy tales has a very dark origin. Mary Shelley creates a feeling of emptiness, sorrow, and sadness using setting, major plot points, and characterization. She achieves this through death, emotion and multiple uses out symbolism throughout the novel to be more specific. This novel follows a young man named Victor who tries to play god and him and his family pay for the consequences.

After being abandoned by Dr. Frankenstein, Creature wanted to be accepted by mankind. However, his grotesque appearance was enough for society to isolate him. The physical and psychological characteristics that a society finds difficult to acknowledge as “normal” is what monsters embody. Because people made snap judgements about who Creature was, Creature started thinking of himself as wicked and evil. The circumstances he was placed in incited fury within that turned into physical violence. Creature referred to Dr. Frankenstein as a “cursed creator”, and “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled [his] bosom, and [he] did not strive to control them; but allowing [himself] to be borne away by the stream, [he] bent [his] mind towards injury and death” (Shelly 138 and 140). He became a powerful and threatening force. Creature fed the evil wolf and became more of a monster than just his physical semblance showed. By murdering innocent victims, he only fueled the monstrosity within him causing it to be his paramount

Frankenstein and various other characters plagued the monster with the feeling of self-consciousness. This feeling never goes away and the creature acts out in rage as a result of this horrible feeling (Mellor Abandonment 77). Along with the feelings of self-consciousness, the creature also felt a great deal of loneliness,

The monster caused her pain, produced blood, and in the end, death. It also caused her lover and friend to have psychological issues after and during her suffering. The monster was eating her up inside while she would sleep when it “applied its mouth to her temples, sucking her blood” (Quiroga 2), causing her chronic pain she couldn’t handle and ultimately led to her death. Authors like these like to be creative with their monsters and their ways of harming someone, whether it be emotionally or physically, both being equally as

Throughout the beginning of the novel, Frankenstein’s monster has been defined by his ugly appearance. When Frankenstein’s monster encounters people, he is immediately driven away because of his ugliness, as seen by when Frankenstein’s monster conveys how ”children shrieked, and one of the women fainted” when he tried to enter a cottage, and how he was “grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons” once the villagers saw his ugliness(106). People assume that Frankenstein’s monster is evil solely because of his appearance, before the monster has shown any intent to harm others.This effect even occurs with Frankenstein himself, where he claims that the mere glimpse of the monster, which was “more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly

“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings…” (Shelley 54). As he reads the books he found, he begins to compare his life and himself with others, and shapes his opinion and point of view of himself, since now he wants to be accepted for who he really is, because he knows that mankind rejects him. He feels lonely and miserable, and what he most want in life is a female companion. “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being” (Shelley 63). The monster feels that he is miserable because mankind hate him, and that is what make him malicious. It is possible that the monster would actually fulfill his promise and leave humankind in peace. We can assume that he has the potential for good as well as evil. As he is being aware of life by reading “Paradise Lost,” he compares himself to Adam, because he was left alone on earth by his creator, and also to Satan, because humans are afraid of him, and he is threatening and

A romantic life full of pain and abandonment could only be given the monstrous form of "Frankenstein." Mary Shelley 's life gave birth to an imaginary victim full of misery and loneliness and placed him as the protagonist of one of her most famous and greatest works of art. As most people would assume, he is not just a fictional character, but in fact a creature who desperately demonstrates Shelley 's tragedies and losses during the age of the Romantic Era. Since Mary Shelley 's birth there have been numerous losses in her life. One extremely dominating event in Shelley 's life was the death of her mother. Soon after, her father remarried and Shelley entered a battle as the victim of a fight for love. In her

In addition to being rejected by his creator, Frankenstein’s monster is also treated very violently by humans, leaving him alone and feeling like he did something wrong, even though their reactions are based solely on his appearance. The monster does not want to be thought of as a monster at first, but as he comes to realize from human interactions, no matter what his actions are, people will always judge him by what he cannot control. The monster explains the first interaction he had ever had with

Shelley’s guilt for the death of others is related to the guilt of the characters in her writings. Mary Shelley’s guilt is significant to the guilt of her characters because they are created by her. Through them she is able to express her own guilt for the death of others. The characters inside Mary Shelley 's writings have losses and gains similar to her own. In her writings, Shelley would take a theme that was evident in her own life and apply them to her writings. “Mary Shelley, in her second novel [Valperga] as well as in her first [Frankenstein], is interested in taking up the theme of ambition and exploring the emotional cost it exacts” (Walling 289). By exploring these emotional costs, Mary Shelley used this as a representative of her own life. She was very daring in taking off with Percy Shelley. When she wrote about great adventures that took strikes against her character’s emotions, she was writing from her own experience. In her eyes, Mary Shelley did many things that would cause great suffering. Her husband’s ex-wife’s suicide was one of the main effects Mary Shelley thought she caused by running off with Percey Shelley, who was married at the time. Mary’s guilt began with Mary’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died shortly after Mary 's birth. The absence of “mother” characters in Shelley’s novels reflects the death of her own mother. According to Kotze, “the monster is, in all respects, a motherless child, and to fulfil his desire for a mother, he is forced to

Anxiety has been around for many years due to stress levels being too high or events that have happened in the past, but does anyone realize that it is a serious thing and can hurt someone mentally? While researching different academic articles about anxiety and other types of mental illness. I found a few academic journals who describe other people’s lives with anxiety and other mental illnesses. Mary Shelly author of her famous book “Frankenstein” is about Victor Frankenstein who created a monster and got very ill when he saw the beast breathe. Later, he started to neglect the beast and the monster started killing Victor’s loved ones because Victor abandoned the monster. I chose to write about mental illnesses and anxiety because. Victor Frankenstein suffers from a mental illness known as anxiety caused by the monster and events caused by him.