The Environment In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

When the monster is betrayed by Victor the only thing that comforts his hurting is the thought and idea of revenge. The monster goes after Victor's brother, little William. When Victor finds out about his loss, he knows it was the monster which had made him feel devastated about what has occurred. This broke Victor emotionally because the relationship he had with his brother was robust. Victor cared about his brother more than his owned wife Elizabeth. The mindest the monster had was knowledgeably because of the way he knew taking the closest person away from Victor will harm him the most.

While Creature is full of humanity and has a thirst for knowledge, his longing for acceptance in society is met with constant rejection. Through this rejection, it sparks anger into the Creature for his irresponsible creator, Victor Frankenstein. Creature’s anger leads to greater tragedies for Victor. The greater of the tragedies are the murdering of innocent people including Victor’s family that is seen to be the fault of Creature since he is the one who murdered them. If Victor did not abandon the Creature and had taught him murder was not morally correct, Creature would not have committed the heinous acts.When Creature was first theoretically born, he was introduced into the world in a very harsh way. Metaphorically, Creature starts out into the world as a newborn, needing a parent 's guidance and teachings. Victor abandons him immediately with no sense of direction. Creature, after his “birth”, approaches Victor with a hand of longing for compassion. “He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they maybe called, were fixed on me...He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out” (Shelley 35). Victor instead of showing acceptance immediately runs away at the sight of him.

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.

Shelley addresses romantic conventions in Victor to convey his loss of identity. Victor is impatient and restless when constructing the creation, so much, that he does not think about it’s future repercussions. One of the great paradoxes that Shelley’s novel depicts is giving the monster more human attributes than to it’s creator [p. 6 - Interpretations]. This is true as the monster seeks an emotional bond, but Victor is terrified of it’s existence. The monster later reveals, “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurred at and kicked and trampled on [Shelley, p. 224].” Victor’s lack of compassion is rooted from the inability to cope with his reality. He distances himself from others and is induced with fainting spells [Shelley, p. 59]. From this, the nameless creature exemplifies Victor’s attempt to abandon his creation to escape his responsibilities. His creation is described as, ‘wretched devil’ and ‘abhorred monster,’ eliciting that the unobtainable, pitied identity [Shelley, p. 102]. The act of not naming the creature reveals Victor as hateful, and unnaturally disconnected to his own created victim.

The novel begins and ends in the Arctic. This cold and desolate setting is used to correlate with the feelings that the Creature is experiencing and the emptiness in Victor’s heart. Geneva, in this novel, represents love because all of Victor’s loved ones live here. The Creature obviously has no regard for this love as he murders Victor’s family. Ingolstadt is where Victor attends college and the city of the Creature’s creation. It seems as though the Creature’s “birth” here foreshadows how intellectual the Creature will become. As Victor chases the Creature through Europe, Russia, and the Arctic, it shows that Victor is persistent and will stop at nothing to get

Contrary to Frankenstein, the creature does not choose his isolation, but it was immediately chosen for him. Society and especially Frankenstein excludes the creature from being accepted, based on his looks and his little ability to act as a normal human being. Within the novel he states, “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching, and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.” (Shelley, pg. 110) The creature is aware of this exclusion and through those words a reader can know for sure. The negative effects of the creature’s isolation begins to show within the story through his horrifying acts like murder. Isolation develops to be a motif in the story, which helps a reader truly see that this is a huge similarity between both Frankenstein and his creature.

John Locke is one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and is famously known for asserting that all humans have natural rights. He also believed that humans are born with clean slates, and that the environment humans grow in, especially at a young age, has massive influences on aspects of their personalities, ideals, and motivations. Shelley was most definitely influenced by this claim when writing Frankenstein. As the reader, we can see the monster that Victor Frankenstein creates grow up alone, without guidance, and be formed by the experiences it is put through while trying to survive. Its emotions and beliefs throughout the book were merely a result of its experiences as it encounters the harsh reality of the world. Mary

From words and symbols, overall it connects to the theme of abusing the power of nature that can be threatened with a curse or bad luck to the person’s life. The person will be Victor, because right before he departs to Ingolstadt for studies of science, and saw an omen that foresees his misery life in the future. As the omen’s power continues throughout the novel, and it was considered as Victor’s fate with frightening memories. In Frankenstein, Victor discovers the creation of life along with loud thunders, “I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming check of life…, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life”, which he reborn a creature

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” touches on isolation as the result of sin. Victor creates a “monster” and is disturbed by his final creation. Furthermore, he is forced to live with the consequences of his creation. But the scary part is that Victor and the creation become more similar as the book goes on. Both the creation and Victor are isolated. It took Victor two years to make the creation, during which time he isolated himself. And after the creation was done, Victor isolated him, which lead to the creation killing Victor’s family and friends. However, it is hard to pin down who the “monster” really was. The creation killed Elizabeth, but Victor left the creation abandoned. However, I don’t think either one of them can be called “monsters.”

Describe the setting (time and place). How does the setting support the theme of the text?

Victor Frankenstein exercised his thirst for knowledge upon entering university and learned about modern sciences and alchemy. With his burning ambition to seek for the power of creation, he pushed past the known limits of humanity and becomes successful in obtaining the answer to create life. Though momentarily satisfied with the power to bring life, Frankenstein acknowledges that the power of being able to create life was a mistake; Unwilling to acknowledge the “magnitude and complexity” of his task and thereby practice responsible creativity, Frankenstein oversized the “minuteness of the parts” in an attempt to make the reality of his endeavor match the grandeur of his intentions (Harriet Hustis,

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is definitely a Gothic themed novel. Frankenstein is a mad scientist who has created this monster with the body parts of dead people, and this monster causes him a world of problems. This novel has death, a bad omen, a mad scientist theme, and has a dark and gloomy setting. These factors influence many of the decisions that Frankenstein decides to make. One thing that makes this a Gothic novel is the setting that the story occurs in.

Victor has spent years working on his monster, working through fatigue and illness. During another instance of illness, Victor allows his creation to roam. Not understanding the consequences that his creation causes. The Monster’s appearance disturbs villagers and causes panic among them. Later on, the Monster is spiteful and wants revenge.

Frankenstein, being the creator, should have known how to create something in a more resourceful way. He obviously didn’t think of the repercussions that may come from his creation, like the monster going insane, how the monster reacts to society and things, and of course the amount of time it would take Victor to turn the monster into a perfect human being. This is definitely something that would take a long period of time and a lot of patience which Frankenstein lacks. All he really wants is to be the first to bring life to a dead person and therefore be famous. The greed and selfishness got to his head and that is all he could think about, while abandoning himself from his friends, family, and society.

The environment has a lot to say in Marry Shelly's Frankenstein. It seems to reflect somewhat what is going on emotionally with Victor in the story. Victor finds solace in solitude with nature, and appears to use it as a coping mechanism to escape from the horrors of his life. Nature also ties into how the monster Victor has created feels, but in a much different way than it does for him.