Frankenstein Essay Example

Frankenstein essay Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein was nineteen when she started writing her story. Her husband was a famous poet called Percy Shelley. The Novel Frankenstein was published in March, 1818 when she was twenty-one. Many people believed Mary wrote this novel through the great0 tragedy of her life as she lost her mother when she was a baby. At the time the novel was written, people put their faith in god and believed that God was the only one who could give and take away lives. But after the novel was published, many people see this book as promoting the revolutionary ideas that dominated the political world at the time, since Victor, one of the main characters of this novel defies God by creating life himself. Instead of being the created, Frankenstein takes God’s place and becomes the creator, this can be seen as Frankenstein tries to against the law of nature and at the end we can see he gets punished for his deeds by his own creation. The structure of this story is different to many stories as it was written in “a story within a story” and this makes us have a better understanding about the events that happened in the novel. There are three narrative voices which are Victor Frankenstein, the creation and Robert Walton but Walton is an unbiased narrative because his appearance has nothing to do with what happens through the novel. The first narrative we will look at is Victor Frankenstein; he is a biased narrative voice because as we read his narrative we can only hear his view about the creation which he has considered as a mistake. His views present the fear of society of having too much scientific knowledge. One “dreary night of November” in chapter 5, Victor completed his creation, and believed that the creature would turn out beautiful because he selected parts that he believed were beautiful such as “teeth of a pearly whiteness”, “hair was of a lustrous black” but he soon realized it was a mistake to create