How Does Mary Shelley Create Tension in Chapter 5 of 'Frankenstein'?

In Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein the creature created by Victor Frankenstein is often misunderstood and mistreated because of his appearance. The people around him around him hurt him and make him filled with anger, causing the creature’s character to flip and out lash and swear vengeance on anyone he sees. This makes the reader see the creature as a morally ambiguous character because he constantly switches between both categories of good and evil. The creature being an ambiguous character helps support the meaning of the work as a whole which is good character can be manipulated by outside forces.

(Shelley). The fact that Frankenstein fled from his creation very shortly after it came to life, proves how he refused to accept his obligations and responsibilities after his creature was created. ?The [creature] is Frankenstein?s abandoned child? (Mellor Abandonment 357). It is unfair to bring something into the world, and then not teach it how to survive. Victor was intimidated by his hideous characteristics and felt threatened by the creature. He did not know his creation at all, so he had no right to judge him. This is an example of how various people and society place too much judgment on physical appearance. The creature had just come into the world for the first time, and the first thing he saw was his creator screaming for his life as a result of his appearance. This traumatized the creation, and caused him to seek revenge on Frankenstein. This novel shows how when people are prejudice against physical deformity or ugliness, it automatically characterizes that person as bad or monstrous (Halberstam 59). Victor was the one who gave him these characteristics; so in fact, he is to blame for the creature?s appearance being so monstrous.

In the poem “Making Frankenstein” the poem dramatizes between confusion and the desire to belong. Wyatt Prunty, the author of the poem, sets the tale during the childhood of a young boy. In “summer 1957” the young boy pleads to his mother and father to watch the movie “The Curse of Frankenstein” which had lots of dense material for a young boy. Despite the parents saying, “He could not, no he could not, no” the naive boy, “wheedled and cajoled, begged, and promised” his parents to go. The vulgar scenes of the movie made him, “woke up screaming”. The nightmares are where the journey begins for the boy after his father states the material was “too anatomical”. This word made the boy curious and confused his perspective on life. As the boy learned about the anatomy of the human body through, “... an old foxed Gray's Anatomy” he was certain about his place in the world.

Tears and pain- both physical and emotional: these are the things that many children across the world experience due to abuse. Not typically thought of as a form of abuse, but perhaps one of the most important factors in determining a child’s mental health and behaviors, is acceptance. Universally, children crave for acceptance from their peers, family members, and all other members of society; the neglect rendered by denying a child of this normality causes the fostering of resentment within the child, which can lead to much larger negative emotions as well as actions. Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, explores this concept in her novel largely through the character of the nameless fiend. Through a study of the fiend and the neglect that he suffers at the hand of Victor Frankenstein and society, the most drastic of consequences of abuse and

At Birth a monster, At risk humanity In “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley Victor Frankenstein creates a hideous monster to appease his obsession in science. During the monster's beginning of life he travels through many sufferable and emotional obstacles. These major events are shown throughout the examples of imagery, and tone and to intensify the scene a series of soundtracks were included.

Author’s purpose is to show how the creation of Frankenstein’s creature had a negative outcome on him. The tone of despair reflects Frankenstein’s surroundings and the depletion that’s inflicted on him. The words “emaciated” and “confinement” gives one the imagination of the demeanor that Frankenstein possesses. Gruesome images come to mind when these words are put together in this type of setting. Images of one trapped with bones protruding out of their body comeback to mind. Frankenstein’s determination for his project is expressed through the words “dedicated” and “eagerness”. These words portray that Frankenstein has constructed his plan and is committed to it. No matter how many obstacles that come towards him, internal or external. The

Emotions play a big part in people’s daily life. In Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein, emotions take a central role in the character’s lives. In the beginning of the book, Shelley portrays Victor as a loving character, “With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.” (32).

A six foot man created by a montage of flesh and sinew might of been the most terrifying scene that Victor Frankenstein has ever beheld. The monster which is known by many through the well known gothic classic, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, has a lot to teach us about human nature. The monster was created not as a physical representation, but rather as a deep symbol of Victor Frankenstein. The monster really just lives within Victor, and drives him to the extent of doing things that he may never of done himself. Many people can relate to this feeling of being overrun by anger, sadness, greed, etc. The monster being a symbol speaks depths about what it means to be truly human, and what it means to live motivated by impulses.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses rich and symbolic language to convey deeper meanings in the text. In the following excerpt, her writing reveals the shift in Frankenstein’s life, the nature of the creature, and the importance of nature itself.

Though Frankenstein’s creation is one of the most iconic figures of horror, the details of its story seem to vary between each telling. The first film produced to accompany the novel set a precedent by being incredibly selective about which features to portray with full accuracy. Each rendition of the tale offers vastly different versions of the story’s focal characters, framed within a select few plot consistencies among many inconsistencies. Though the differences are comically easy to observe, the similarities remain present to remind readers and viewers of the source material. In order to fully understand the scope of these observations, one must elaborate further on specific and exemplary details.

In the first four chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein is obsessed with creating this creature made out of human body parts, and bringing it to life. With his obsession came many positive and negative factors. He succeeded in bringing his creation to life, but this creation was more of a monster than Frankenstein had envisioned. Frankenstein was automatically scared of his creation, as he fell asleep soon after bringing the creature to life, and woke up to find the creature standing over him and staring directly at him.

Clare, the author of I am, and Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, both use despondent diction to represent the agony of loneliness; ultimately forewarning the reader that without love, one’s existence is lifeless and leads to doom and destruction. When Shelley uses terms like “catastrophe” or “wretch” to describe the creation of the monster, she refers to the physical appearance of the creature, and the emotional turmoil of Victor Frankenstein and the creature, as well. The monster is abandoned by Frankenstein due to his hideous stature. Shelley plays with contrasts such as the creature’s mouth, whose teeth are “pearly white” but whose lips are “black”. The eyes, which ironically are the windows to man’s emotions, are colorless. The hair is “lustrous”, almost sensual, but the complexion is “shrivelled”, like an elderly man on his death bed. She juxtaposes Victor’s arrogance of having the brilliance to create a gift reserved to G-d, with his deliverance of the devil. When Shelley says that the skin “scarcely” covers

Throughout chapter five of Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the ideas of tragedy and despair are profound elements that convey the elements of a gothic novel. Mary Shelley’s use of gothic elements such as settings of dreary uneasiness that suggests something beyond the comprehension of humankind, supernatural events such as apparitions showing themselves with certain characters, and metonymy of gloom and horror foreboding the upcoming events, helps us understand the weight of the situation occurring within the book. With Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the monster, a situation in which transcends the limits of life and death is created – further supporting the gothic elements present within the novel. The use of these gothic elements

Mary Shelley was a British novelist and she was best known for her novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus; this science-fiction novel was published in 1818 and it was set in 1789 in England. This novel contains serious and deep ideological consequences, in spite of Shelley’s young age at the time she wrote it. This is because it contains suppressed aspects of social, religious and metaphysical crisis in West history since French Revolution.