Examples Of Psychoanalysis In Frankenstein
Psychoanalysis of the Monster from Frankenstein
The monster suffers from bipolar because his creator had brought him to life, seeming like a bad dream, being shunned by the cottagers for his hideousness. Being exposed to hatred and anger so much can cause emotional outbursts. “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”(Shelley, 86). His need to fit in is why he was attacked by villagers.
The attack led him to possibly have social anxiety. He has it because he wants to be sociable with the townspeople, but he seems too shy for the rest might not like him. “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join them, …show more content…
She didn’t quite like her stepmother and she wasn’t as accepted either. She later runs away with a man by the name of Percy Shelley(she had the name Godwin before she ran off with him), which led to them marrying. But later she was alienated from her family by her father. She decided to stay away, for there would be so much grief.
She might have suffered from PTSD because after she runs off with Percy, they later try to have children. The child that had been given birth to had died within a few days. She also heard that her half sister and her husband’s previous wife had committed suicide. As she struggles, she also possibly suffered from depression because Mary and her husband struggled financially. Percy, Mary’s husband, had later drowned. Her life story seems to relate to her book Frankenstein.
She seems to make a connection to Victor in the book Frankenstein because they both are grief-stricken. They both had lost a family member. Victor hears of his younger sibling’s death only as he gets home. Mary doesn’t hear about her half sister until long after she and Percy ran off together. Victor didn’t want his family to know that he knew who the killer was because he would be alienated from his family. After Mary ran off with Percy, her father had alienated her. The perspective partially relates to the problems she had in her own life. (Biography.com Editors, “Mary Shelley
The monster suffers from bipolar because his creator had brought him to life, seeming like a bad dream, being shunned by the cottagers for his hideousness. Being exposed to hatred and anger so much can cause emotional outbursts. “Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”(Shelley, 86). His need to fit in is why he was attacked by villagers.
The attack led him to possibly have social anxiety. He has it because he wants to be sociable with the townspeople, but he seems too shy for the rest might not like him. “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join them, …show more content…
She didn’t quite like her stepmother and she wasn’t as accepted either. She later runs away with a man by the name of Percy Shelley(she had the name Godwin before she ran off with him), which led to them marrying. But later she was alienated from her family by her father. She decided to stay away, for there would be so much grief.
She might have suffered from PTSD because after she runs off with Percy, they later try to have children. The child that had been given birth to had died within a few days. She also heard that her half sister and her husband’s previous wife had committed suicide. As she struggles, she also possibly suffered from depression because Mary and her husband struggled financially. Percy, Mary’s husband, had later drowned. Her life story seems to relate to her book Frankenstein.
She seems to make a connection to Victor in the book Frankenstein because they both are grief-stricken. They both had lost a family member. Victor hears of his younger sibling’s death only as he gets home. Mary doesn’t hear about her half sister until long after she and Percy ran off together. Victor didn’t want his family to know that he knew who the killer was because he would be alienated from his family. After Mary ran off with Percy, her father had alienated her. The perspective partially relates to the problems she had in her own life. (Biography.com Editors, “Mary Shelley