How Does Frankenstein Conform

Victor Frankenstein’s moral ambiguity lies in good intentions with bad results. Victor evolves from an intellectually curious, innocent and blameless man to being remorseful, secluded and obsessed with the

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has several literary devices- such as structure, imagery, and many intricate details. She perfectly places words and puts them in such a way that the passage has a dual tone. Shelley begins with establishing the monster’s nature as being peaceful, because he wanted to reason with Victor. Him wanting to reason shows the importance of his decision to meet with Victor and shows that even though he has been through a great deal, he is still respectable to others. The audience gets to see the creature’s humble nature and makes the audience feel sympathetic towards him. This creates a peaceful tone to the passage. The monster wants to be loved by “any being and if they showed benevolence to me, I would return them hundred an hundred fold” (Shelley 148). The creature’s begging makes it sound like Victor will answer his plea. Using a broad term like “being”, demonstrates the monster’s need to be loved, putting him in a position with the audience again feeling empathetic towards him. Eventually, Victor’s compassion begins to fluctuate. The desperation the creature has looks like the desperation a human might have. This only gives the readers another reason to relate to him which leads to the other tone, impossible. Victor’s unreasonableness heightens this shared discontent as not only has the build up of the creature’s wistful nature made him an utmost identifiable character, but our views are adjusted in such as way that Frankenstein is seen

The creature from Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" displays many different human qualities. Some of these qualities include: the creature's ability to learn, his capability to feel pain, his desire to be accepted, and his need for affection and sympathy. The need for affection and sympathy is something which the creature is unable to attain. This unrequited desire to be accepted causes the creature to be the victim of the novel. The creature is never given affection by human society because of his physical deformities, Dr. Frankenstein's denial to create him a mate, and the creature's violent behaviour.

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

Mary Shelley’s story of internal turmoil, the cruelty of altering the laws of nature, and the consequences of redefining the laws of nature is a harrowing one, known widely by many audiences, yet it is never the nature of the characters that is discussed, only the outcome. Shelley’s deliberate use of different character foils portrays the deeper connections and themes in her 1818 novel, Frankenstein. The creation and presence of Frankenstein’s monster directly foils the character of Victor Frankenstein himself, illustrating overarching themes of self inflicted isolation and internal conflict, exposing the dangers and consequences of complete and total narcissism, and revealing a truth many still refuse to accept: we, as humans, are capable

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.

“Frankenstein’s creation is a wretched, evil creature, which deserves nothing but death”. This is a statement, we people, might make if we base our opinion of this new creation only and purely on his actions. Can the creature’s actions condemn him to a life of solitude and immorality? If we look at the situation more closely and with an open mind, we might indeed find ourselves connecting and even sympathizing with this wretched beast. How could someone consent of such evil actions? Well, the reader does not have to; all the reader has to do is keep an open mind and a soft heart. In order to understand how and why the full presentation of the creation’s character might entice the reader to sympathize, one must first look more closely at the actions seen as “evil” and the reasoning behind them.

Social values such as relations with other humans and family values are neglected by Frankenstein. This is made evident early on when Frankenstein becomes absorbed in the creation of his creature and neglects his family, friends and social life. He says “Company was irksome to be... I abhorred society.” As such Shelley is able to symbolise how relentless pursuit of one thing can lead one to neglect everything else. On the other hand, the monster embodies this very value of humanity that is lost to Frankenstein. The monster, unlike Frankenstein, tries to integrate into society. But in doing so he challenges social conventions due to the fact that he was a “fiend with unparalleled barabrity” trying to form relations with humans. However like Frankenstein he too is rejected from society but due to his grotesque appearance. Shelley reflects the humanity expressed by the creature through his love, admiration and self-sacrifice which are characteristics believed to define humanity during the romantic era. Through the acts of the monster helping and regarding the De Lacey family in a positive light before they reject the creature and Frankenstein’s lack of compassion for the monster, Shelley is comparing society’s ability to be civil, compassionate and barbaric. Today these social values of compassion and relations with others continue to be current. Although, today society as a whole is more accepting of individuals on the fringe of society. These changing values and perspectives can be attributed to the differing historical and social context of

Like most horror stories, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has a wretched monster who terrorizes and kills his victims with ease. However, the story is not as simple as it seems. One increasingly popular view of the true nature of the creature is one of understanding. This sympathetic view is often strengthened by looking at the upbringing of the creature in the harsh world in which he matures much as a child would. With no friends or even a true father, the creature can be said to be a product of society and its negative views and constant rejections of him. Although this popular view serves to lessen the severity of his crimes in most people’s eyes, the fact remains that the creature is in fact a cold-hearted wretch whose vindictive nature

After his long tale, the Creature finally explains his ultimate goal in approaching Frankenstein: “You must create a female for me. With whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse” (Shelley 137). The Creature sees this female companion as his only chance to return to a benevolent state; he needs this female creature to sympathize with him and his experiences, among other possibilities that Frankenstein insinuates but are not directly expressed by the Creature. After listening to the Creature’s demand, Frankenstein “compassionated” the Creature but does attempt to revert back to his view of the Creature as possibly no more than “a filthy mass”(140).

    In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein suffers an extreme psychological crisis following his violation of what is considered a fundamental biological principle.  His creation of life undermines the role of women in his life and the role of sexuality, and allows existing misogynist and homosexual tendencies to surface.  Victor represses what he has uncovered about himself, and it merges into a cohesive whole in his psyche that becomes projected on the instrument of revelation, the monster.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Romantic element of examination of inner feelings is used to communicate that nobody is born with guilt or hatred but through different experiences that a person’s mind develops biases that lead to hatred, guilt, and revenge.

lacks that grasp of knowledge of the emotional world. He creates a creature with the mind of a human but with a body that is severely disformed. I will discuss how the creature can be viewed as a symbol of Frankenstein's lack of knowledge and how that can be a burden on life, through an examination of their experiences, formal and informal. In some ways, the creature's

In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley expresses her sentiments regarding the conflict between the ethical standards and science and technology of her time. Through her illustration of the morally illiterate, Victor Frankenstein, she depicts science and understanding as a factor with the potential to create monstrous forces to displace man from their home in nature. However through Shelly’s development of Frankenstein, she ensures the reader that for every monstrous force that science creates, nature imposes an equal and opposite reaction force in order to restore the moral compass of man. As her society enters the New Victorian period, she emphasizes the importance of upholding morality while advancing to this period of industrialization.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein contains attributes from both the Enlightenment as well as Romanticism. The central idea of the book, the quest for the unattainable, is a very romantic idea, however the ending of the book provides a critique of this grand idea with the deaths of Victor and his loved ones along with Walton’s abandonment of his expedition. Ultimately, the book raises and attempts to provide an answer to the following questions: is the pursuit of the unattainable good or bad and what is the necessary balance between freedom and responsibility. Frankenstein provides support for some Romantic values through Victor’s love for nature and his quest for the unattainable, yet criticizes them when Victor’s life falls apart with his own death and the deaths of his loved ones.