Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein has characters that exemplify the Freudian psychoanalysis. The creature made by Victor embodies several aspects of his analysis: id, repression, displacement, and sublimation. The creature absorbed his surroundings and reflected them with how he ultimately felt about himself and his creator; the cultural surroundings of the creature best influenced his character.
The creature, the yellow-faced and beautiful yet disgusting being, has had issues of feeling closer to a fish out of water than his surroundings since he was created. These grievances manifested themselves into his psyche and shaped his outlook permanently. With a father that had no positive role in his life and a nonexistent mother, the creature had repressed feelings of deprivation and resentment. These feelings were internalized into his views and plans for his community. The lack of a mother figure was deep inside his psyche and caused him to desire wisdom and beauty to establish a mother-son relationship. Shelly displays how these feelings came to a head, “ I gazed with delight… I was forever deprived” (144). The feelings of deprivation and the culture where others loved without the creature manifested themselves into a need for affection from the creature’s own kind. Attempts to escape the isolation of the culture were futile, so the best solution was to be with someone the creature could resonate with. A male companion was not desired due to Victor’s lack of caring causing
Character Analysis: Give your ideas about the main characters(s). Include what you like and dislike about the characters and why they deserve praise or criticism. Does the author intend for you to like/dislike them? How do you know?
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.
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley combines three separate stories involving three different characters--Walton, Victor, and Frankenstein's monster. Though the reader is hearing the stories through Walton's perspective, Walton strives for accuracy in relating the details, as he says, "I have resolved every night,...to record, as nearly as possible in his [Victor's] own words, what he has related during the day" (Shelley 37). Shelley's shift in point of view allows for direct comparison and contrast between the characters, as the reader hears their stories through the use of first person. As the reader compares the monster's circumstances to those of Victor and Walton, the reader's
Frankenstein’s monster explores the world, realizing his loneliness and shaping the start of his rage towards Victor. Shelley
Indirect Quote: Bilbo understood on page 52, that going ahead made him leave behind safety and comfort which were mostly found in his hobbit-hole. (p.52)
A lot of interesting things happen in these two chapters. First, Alex gets manipulated into spending New Year’s Eve at the nursing home, with Laurie. When Laurie asks about Alex’s sentence and how much time he has left, and Sol hears, things go wrong. Sol becomes very agitated with Alex about how he was just a punishment (then more mad when he learns what Alex did). Laurie later attempts to convince Alex to go back to the home, but he doesn’t and they sleep at his house. In Chapter 12, Alex’s dad gets reintroduced when his parents reveal to Alex that they are back together (even after, according to Alex, spending twelve months and $30,000 fighting each other in court).
Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.
• Victor is born into a privileged life, as his family is one of the most distinguished in Geneva (18). • Victor stumbles upon volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa while confined in an inn during a family outing, which leads him to becoming infatuated with natural philosophy and discovering other writers such as Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus, thus molding him into a disciple of science (22). • A thunderstorm decimated a tree with lightning outside of Victor’s home, which sparked an interest in electricity (24). • Victor’s mother dies of scarlet fever when he was 17, which possibly led to his obsession with the creation of life (25). • Victor goes to the University of Ingolstadt to continue his studies, where he remembers two professors in particular: M. Krempe and M. Waldman, the former of which berated his previous knowledge of natural philosophy and the latter of which being of a more benevolent nature (28).
The word “knowledge” was recurring many times throughout Frankenstein novel and attracted or forced the reader to find out the true definition of it. Curiously, I decided to look up the definition of knowledge from the Webster 's Dictionary. It defines, “Knowledge: n. Understanding gained by actual experience; range of information; clear perception of truth; something learned and kept in the mind.” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) I realized this word is very straightforward, but has many useful and different meanings to all of us. It is also powerful tool to determine and control the result of our judgment. “Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions”. (Knowledge Intellectual
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
A family is the most important and fundamental processes of development in childhood. There are many examples of works that deal with family. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the reader sees how neglection from a family setting can invoke horrible events. In The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, presents how Isolation and dislike can and will lead to unfortunate events. In Macbeth by Shakespeare, shows the betrayal of a family and how it affects the mind by playing with it in several different ways. Before a person can see effects of isolations, neglection, and betrayal of a family he/she must “climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the monster which is created by Victor Frankenstein acts as a mirror to reflect and bring out Victor’s hidden thoughts. In a particular study called Frankenstein – A Critical Study from a Freudian Perspective, it argues that Victor on the surface seems to be a “healthy man” (Johnson 1). In fact, he unconsciously has many dangerous thoughts, and the creation of the monster brings out those thoughts and finally leads to his failure (Johnson 2). In specific, present paper will analysis Victor’s characters by examining his intention and decisions toward the monster he creates, and the paper is intended
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary classic that tells a story of a young scientist Victor Frankenstein who created a monster that tries to live in society but is rejected. The monster will later seek revenge by going after his creator. In this essay I will be evaluating two critiques about the novel. Beginning with Professor Naomi Hetherington’s critique and the second critique written by Professor Sherry Ginn.