Examples Of Fear In Frankenstein

I feel sympathetic for the creature on many occasions in the fiction novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein has brought something to life that he cannot even look at without being horrified. I believe it was wrong that Frankenstein played God and created something he didn’t understand. Once you are finished with this essay I believe you will agree with me.

Mary Shelley uses the monster to show the harmful effects of Victor Frankenstein’s crime of nature. When Dr. Frankenstein first creates the monster and the monster first moves on its own, coming to life, the "watery eyes, the yellow skin that barely covered the work of muscles” terrify him, and he immediately flees. This first reaction to the monster is part of the foreshadowing of the terrible deeds that follow the creation of this crime against nature. Frankenstein’s reaction to the monster is not uncommon as everywhere the monster goes, people react similarly. The monster tries to befriend a blind old man living in a cottage, knowing the old man cannot see him, and therefor will not have an awful reaction to his appearance.

Mary Shelley makes us question who really the “monster” is. Is it the creature or Victor? While the creature does commit murder, he does not understand the consequences of his actions. He is like an infant who is unfortunately left to learn about the workings of society, and his place in it, on his own. He has no companions and feels a great sense of loneliness and abandonment. The creature voices his frustration and anger and seems to try to project his feelings of guilt onto Victor, as if to show him that he is the ultimate cause of the creature’s misery while he is simply the victim of Victor’s manic impulse. Shelley utilizes words, phrases, and specific tones when the creature vents his misery to Victor and this evokes, amongst the

Previously, the creature believed that he should be like Adam, but ended up like Satan because both Satan and the creature were damned by their creators from the beginning.However, he now believes that he has it worse than Satan because Satan still has companions in damnation while the creature has no one. Shelley reuses this allusion to emphasize the creature’s change from benevolent to fiendish as a result from his isolation and to be used as a comparison from when he first alluded to the novel to show how much the creature has changed since then. This passage also sheds light on the theme of isolation and Shelley’s thoughts and opinions about it.Through the creature’s character and belief that he has it worse than Satan, it can be inferred that Shelley believes that living in isolation is a fate worse than living in damnation. The significance of the statement is that during the time Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, being damned to eternal punishment in hell after you die was among the biggest fear people had and to think of something was worse like living in isolation was highly uncommon for the

After reading Frankenstein, the audience sees the way Victor Frankenstein interacts with his experiment and his excitement towards it, until the Monster is crafted and Victor is terrified of his own creation. The main gothic anxiety that Frankenstein plays with is fear; fear of the unknown and fear of the monster’s capabilities. The novel takes place in the eighteenth centaury throughout Europe and the Artic. The variety of locations that the novel takes place is significant because it shows the distance between Victor and whoever he is running from at that instance. While growing up Victor finds an interest in reading the works of outdated alchemists which leads him in developing an erg to learn more. Victor decides to continue his

countering hatred and apathy with more anger can not possibly end well. Doing so is not only imprudent, but it also reinforces how readily vice and sin spread. Whenever a human being attempts to create new life, he or she must be prepared to nurture that life and teach it right from wrong no matter the cost. New life demands a protector and a mentor from which to learn. If it can not have these resources, the results could be

Essentially at this point Frankenstein is not a monster, it is his experience within human society which determines his future evil behaviours. We perceive Frankenstein burning himself on a fire: ‘I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars...in my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.’ In this instance Shelley conveys the fundamentals of conditioning. Frankenstein learns that putting his hand into the fire results in pain, which reinforces the notion that Shelley presents behaviourism as a dominant force. More importantly, the influence of the social environment upon Frankenstein is explicitly conveyed with his experience with the De Lacey’s. Frankenstein seemingly exemplifies operant conditioning as he begins to learn language, understand human relationships and develop feelings of empathy through observation. Again, this reinforces the notion that it is behaviourism, not the biological approach, which fundamentally shapes Frankenstein’s personality. It is within Frankenstein’s experience of humans that his personality significantly shifts from neutral to evil because ‘the creature learns from sensations and examples’.7 Essentially Frankenstein is treated with contempt by his creator, violence for doing a noble deed and violence from the De Lacey’s who he admires. These experiences fundamentally shapes his personality and transforms him to ‘eternal hatred

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, themes of abandonment and isolation are shown, similar to Paradise Lost, the story of God banishing Satan. When he reflects on his short existence and reads from Paradise Lost, the monster sees that he is more like Satan who was rejected by God than like Adam who was loved by God and he seeks redemption.

When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone." (Shelley,189). In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein two characters are alienated from the rest of the world; one by choice and one on which alienation is imposed upon. Mary Shelley shows through these characters many things that still occur in today's society. In Frankenstein people didn't even get to know the creature but because of its outward appearance it was automatically assumed that he was a threat. The quote, “don't judge a book by its cover,” was what you could take from this had the creature not endured so much hate, and pain from villagers, town people he would've never switched over and became evil. All he wanted was to be accepted, loved and treated like he belonged someplace but that's the opposite in which he received. Had he not been rejected by so many people and alienated off from not only the rest of the world but also his creator, those tragedies wouldn't have occurred.

Who’s the real monster? Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there is a parallel drawn between Victor Frankenstein, and his creature he brought to life. They both demonstrate humanity and monstrosity, and although the creature is the real monster physically, Victor Frankenstein and the creature both show characteristics of monstrosity. They both start off as kind-hearted people, wanting to help others, then society corrupts them both, which leaves them both angry, miserable, and seeking revenge on the other. The real monster of the novel is both Victor Frankenstein and the creature.

Monstrosity and Morality In Frankenstein “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley has a broad theme on monstrosity. Victor Frankenstein created a monster and he did this not essentially by creating a monster but rather through his actions and the impressions he gave to the creature after he created it-- “I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created.”. Victor looked at his creation in hatred, disgust and fear, and abandoned it. Throughout the story he refuses to give his creature a name, therefore making the creature seem even more inhumane.

What is scary in Frankenstein? In her 1831 introduction Mary Shelley relays her task, to “awaken thrilling horror- none to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.” In the nineteenth century, horror, fear and disgust were the proper responses to creations that failed to conform to neoclassical aesthetic ideals of unified ideals, harmonious composition of parts in simple regularity and proportion. Victor’s overwhelming feelings of horror and disgust on seeing his hideously disproportionate creature come to life display the reaction of society to Frankenstein as a novel (Fred Botting.)

The fear of the inner monster is scary, overwhelming feeling. We keep it hidden inside of us for personal reasons. My inner monster is the fear of not knowing what is next in life. It creeps me out to just think that I don’t know what my next move will be or how it will turn out to be.

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