The reading and analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has given me insight into how writing style can differ among female and male authors. Mary Shelley, although only one example of the female gender’s work, gives readers like me evidence that would support the idea of unique traits being present in female writing, Mary Shelley’s voice is unique to others because of her creative purpose, character development, and point of view. Science Fiction as a whole could be argued to be derivative of this
The gothic horror novel Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley, and this author has a peculiar and unique style of writing, as any writer would have. One of the staples of Shelley 's writing style in Frankenstein is a massive use of description in often long-winded sentences, which seem at many times like run-ons. For example, Shelley writes, “I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it, and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains,
The Gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft absolutely advocates change and up to a certain degree shows concern of the social attitudes and customs of the 18th and 19th centuries. Mary Shelley successfully created a fiction that was meant to indirectly criticize the practices of the time. Shelley wishes to modify the fact that knowledge that existed during the late 1700s through the 1800s were being used for detrimental purposes, although some were being used for honorable purposes;
As Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she poured much time into portraying her characters and making them believable and life-like. Her scenes are painted with beautiful, descriptive words that are colored with vivid emotions and applicable morals. Her life experiences were strategically placed in her writing to convey a sense of reality and completion of plots and subplots. Her experience with failed love ties in with the emotion that she expresses the loneliness of Frankenstein’s creation. She develops
Frankenstein the novel, Amateur Work or Classic and Timeless Fiction: An Evaluation of the Writing of Frankenstein Frankenstein is a novel that gives readers an opportunity to imagine a world very different and unique from their current one. One where man can in fact create a creature who exhibits human like qualities such as loneliness, kindness, intelligence and anger even if it looks like a monster. Mary Shelley does a fantastic job in writing a work of fiction that is filled with imagination
The following essay is a book review of Frankenstein, which summarizes and evaluates the story. The purpose of this essay is to describe the two important qualities, which are the overview of the plot (including the characters of the book), and the book’s strengths as well as weaknesses. Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley and is about a young man named Victor who creates his own human through multiple types of science. The novel is about the monster’s journey in understanding where he came
time travel and life on other planets. The two stories in this synthesis essay, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami are both science fiction stories. Frankenstein, the well known sci-fi story written by Mary Shelley originally written in the year 1817 is a story about an expedition with Robert Walton, who saves and befriends a weary and sick traveler in the Arctic circle. This man was Victor Frankenstein. After becoming closer to Robert Walton, he shared his story of how he had gotten
Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, challenged the concepts of the Victorian era, by using the notion of Romantic novels. In the other hands Bronte uses overflow of senses and emotion along with the awe of nature to create an eerie novel. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, is characterized by the use of romantic aspects to object which is a common fact of novelist in the Victorian era. Certainly, both authors incorporate romantic characteristics into their novels to show the impression of how intense
“Who is the true antagonist” is a question that a reader may mull upon during the reading of certain novels. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, although thought to be a victim, is in fact the villain of the novel Frankenstein. The plot of the novel consists of Victor Frankenstein causing tragedies and deaths as a result of his irresponsibility and yearning for fame. Victor also creates an antagonizing creature that has absolutely no knowledge of the basic ways
In the attached passage, Mary Shelley weaves numerous rhetorical devices and effectively utilizes different styles of syntax to enhance the explanation of how Frankenstein becomes interested in chemistry and decides to make his own accomplishment in science. In order to emphasize certain ideas and phrases, Shelley uses two forms of syntax: anaphora and dashes. When Frankenstein first hears a lecture by M. Waldman, Waldman says, “ ‘They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works