The Change Of Thought In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

The era of romantics, scientists and philosophers was an era of full prosperity. It was a time in which discoveries were being made faster than babies would pop out of their mother’s wombs, in fact it was moving so fast that it worried those who managed to halt and take a step back. At the beginning of the 19th century Merry Shelley published her novel Frankenstein, encompassing the ideas, inventions, and dangers of both the scientific revolution and the enlightenment period; a romantic tragedy of a creature brought up in world with no guardians, left alone to fend for itself and to grasp the slightest bit of humanity it can find. Through the three different narratives Mary Shelley forces the reader to question its own morality, decide what
Frankenstein begins with an expedition to find a Northwest Passage though the Arctic Ocean from Russia, an expedition led by purely by ambition. “I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking. It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half pleasurable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart…There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand…but besides this there us love for the marvelous, a belief in the marvelous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the
There are those who claim morals are something we are born with and there is the opposing party that claims morals are derived from society and are relative. Both sides are presented in Frankenstein, Victor who has received his morals directly from society while the monster is shown to be born with its morals. The creation of the monster is obviously morally and ethically wrong; he created this being for the betterment of his life rather than to help humanity. The so-called protagonist commits unmoral decisions time and time again throughout his life, creating this loss of sympathy for the character and forcing the reader to sympathize with the monster. The monster can be examined as a deformed human being, who has been casted aside by society. They consider it to be a different, merely because of his appearance and immense height, offering no other reason to hate it. As the novel progresses the monster starts developing human characteristics and emotions, such as that of the pursuit of happiness and the need to fit in and belong. The image the society has systematically created of what a human should look like would not have an answer if all humans were asked to answer. It is a relative term which the monster unfortunately does not