Frankenstein : The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In this essay I will be discussing who really is portrayed as the monster in her gothic horror novel, Frankenstein or “The Modern Prometheus”. Frankenstein was written in 1816, (thought by many to be the first real science fiction novel) during the age of Romanticism and it tells the story of a selfish man, Victor Frankenstein, whose ambition conducts him to seek for supernatural powers and leads him to death. He is a young scientist, eager to discover something new, the key to life, help to make scientific advances and let other scientists get a better idea of how the body works and who after studying chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of like, leading him to create a monster that becomes

From beginning to end Frankenstein’s Monster is shown as a wicked creature from the people; however, he possesses many human characteristics. The monster was originally an idea of Frankenstein that will soon come to life. Created from many different parts, the monster was never given a chance to be seen as anything other than a science project. From the outside looking in,

Victor Frankenstein worried about everyone else and playing God, rather than trying to do right, morally. Victor had to go through a lot of steps and difficulties to create the monster. After the creation of the monster, everyone including Victor abandoned him. Victor refused to create a girl creature to avoid a lot of problems, but he did not realize the hell the monster would end up causing him. Victor regrets trying to play God because his action would cause him great troubles and consequences.

In Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster is portrayed as a grotesque abomination. However, as Hopkins states in Contending Forces, the cultural and geographical situations, or lack thereof, in which one matures in play a crucial role in the proper development of one’s mind and brain. The monster is simply a product of circumstance. The lack of social interactions alongside geographical isolation propelled the daemon to be alienated from society, ultimately resulting in a lack of morals and an underdeveloped psyche. By being a culmination of his surroundings and experiences it is revealed that the true monstrous entities are the factors that leave the daemon predisposed to fail in a modern society. Arguably, Victor created a being, while the circumstances that said being was placed in “created” a monster. Shelley purposefully terrorizes the monster with such intensity to provoke and justify the overarching theme in this novel which states that people should not be judged on their physical appearance.

The monster notices that humans are afraid of him because of his appearance, he feels embarrassed of himself, as humans do when they don’t seem to be accepted. He admires the De Lacey Family that lives in the cottage, he also learns from them, and hopes to have companion as they do. The monster is like humans, as mentioned, in the way that he wants someone to listen and care about him. He is discovering the world and his capacities, he seeks knowledge and understand plenty aspects of life by learning how to speak and read. “The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys” (Shelley 47). The monster developed feelings and emotions as humans. The creature is different from humans also, since he never got to grow up as a normal human, and

monster avoid pain again and how he is able to sit and think about how

However, when Frankenstein realizes that he has just looked at the body as individual parts, for example the “pearly teeth”, “blue eyes”, “lustrous black hair”, but he had not looked at the body as a whole. When he did, he realized he had created an abomination, “Beautiful-Great God! His Yellow skin barely covered the work of arteries and muscles beneath!” When Frankenstein comes to this realization, he flees, “now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”. Frankenstein regarded the creature as ugly, evil, inhuman, unflattering to the eye, and vulgar, like a monster.

There is a myth that every creature on this planet is one half of a whole and must be completed by another half. Sometimes it takes that other half coming into their life to make them realize the truth about themselves and to see hidden parts of their unconscious minds that they otherwise would not have noticed themselves. Mary Shelley, an accomplished writer during the Romantic Era of English Literature, is the author of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein is a young man with a hunger and passion for knowledge and science. He wants to do what no one has ever done before- create human life all on his own. Victor creates an eight foot tall, grotesquely terrifying monster that after continuous rejection from society, decides to take revenge on the man that gave him life. Shelley shows throughout this novel how two mortal enemies can be surprisingly similar and even act as mirrors of each other.

This example of the significance of appearance in modern society is also echoed in Frankenstein. The parallel between the society in the novel and modern society is that of snap judgements based solely on appearances. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein is a perpetrator of such judgements. Victor “selected his features as beautiful.” Here it is seen Victor’s shallowness as he picked the most perfect body parts and beauteous features, all to be pieced together in great anticipation. However as one can see, the result is horrific and due to the hideousness of the wretch that he has created, he abandons him. This same shallowness of judgement due to appearance again surfaces when Victor accuses the creature of murdering William

Mary Shelley was an essayist, biographer, short story writer, and novelist. ("Mary Shelley - Biography.") She composed the widely known novel Frankenstein, after a restless night of her imagination plaguing her. Although, at first people only knew Mary for Frankenstein and her efforts to distribute her departed husband 's works. Soon during the 1970’s her other novels were given recognition. Mary Shelley has an extensive list of novels, other than Frankenstein, some of which are mildly popular, Valperga and Matilda for example. Although Frankenstein is what makes her a well-known author today, she was an accomplished writer before the publication of that book. For years, people have thought of Frankenstein as the monster, though the idea could be easily understood, Frankenstein is truly the doctor. The cunning mind behind Dr. Frankenstein and his gruesome monster is an author known by the name of Mary Shelley. These events marked the beginning of Frankenstein and with it a new era of writing. Mary Shelley faced many despair filled moments throughout her life that shaped the unique writing style she incorporated in her novel Frankenstein, events including, miscarriages, suicides, and affairs.

In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. She writes in many different ways in her book which is really interesting. The writing shows a wonderful expressive, persuasive, and creative side of her. She shows a creative narrative point of view which makes the readers tend to forget the main narrator in the book. For example, when Walton is telling Victor about the Creature story. This shows the author point of view instead of any other characters speaking.

Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) first published novel, written when she was only eighteen years old in 1818. In her preface to the 1831 edition, Mary Shelley tells the reader that she was asked by her publisher: "How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?" Explaining where and why the idea for Frankenstein came to Mary Shelley could answer it

Allison ran hard towards the remains of the squad car and Sheriff Higgins alike. She hoped and wished that the noise somehow came from David. She still thought his reaction in the cabin was immature, but it would’ve been nice to see a friendly face within the nightmare. Before the burnt shell of the car became clear, Allison saw the tattered form of a woman that once wore a flower print sundress. Holes randomly polka dotted the thin fabric as teal blood she dreaded seeing dribbled from the wounds. She gasped and started run back the other direction, then another loud crack sounded.

Frankenstein’s monster is ugly, with “yellow skin scarcely cover[ing] the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair [is] of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which

Though the story seems to revolve around the creature and his journey as a character through the events of the story, the underlying message relies as much upon Victor Frankenstein and his transformation as it does on the monster. The overall theme and message of the 19th century novel asserts the idea that we should not play god, nor should we attempt to interfere in the affairs of the natural processes of the world. To illustrate the consequences, the story follows Frankenstein on a swift descent from prominence and vigor to depression, austerity, paranoia and misery.