Frankenstein Theme Analysis

When reading the book there are five major themes:. society, nature, ambition, loss of innocence and prejudice. Prejudice being the most prominent because of how the monster is treated, he is looked at and brantley called a monster. Many people are afraid of him and will not give him the chance. This rolls on into society, they are not willing to accept the monster as a being. Frankenstein is also a unusual fellow, he has withdrawn from society to work on projects/experiments. He is also into nature and is why he wanted to go to the most dangerous climate in the entire world. He is also has prejudice against his own creation the Monster. Victor Frankenstein is an ambitious fellow, he wanted to recreate a human being and was successful. The Monster is also ambitious because he wants be become more like “normal” people. Victor felt when he created the Monster regret because of how he felt it was going to hurt people and because of how ugly it was. To be that could be classified as loss of innocence, because he used to not feel as if he was a monster for creating the Monster. He used to be able to just go through to
Victor is also ambitious to go and get rid of the Monster. He knows that the Monster is a threat to himself, at the same time he starts to withdraw from society, nature and becomes prejudice towards his very creation. I find that in many chapters there are two and sometimes even four elements of romanticism going on in the book at the same time. Other elements could be personification because of the monster showing human tendencies but not actually being “human” at all. He is able to talk like a human would but is not able to interact with other humans that surround him which actually has to do with the prejudice of society. The book is a great example of some of the most prominent elements of romanticism that you can find in literature of the