In her novel Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley portrays her idea that creatures are born with good intentions‚ but this innocence is soon snatched away by the gnarled hands of life. The monster‚ when he is first created‚ wanders until he finds a family which he observes intently. At first the monster would steal some of their food‚ but “when [he] found that in doing this [he] inflicted pain on the cottagers‚ [he] abstained” (Shelley 99). The monster has been alive for a very short period of time and knows
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Mother Nature: More than Just a Common Phrase A typical romantic literary piece uses nature as more than just a setting. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is no exception‚ and Shelley does this by employing nature as a maternal presence. Because of their similar lacking of an actual maternal figure in their life‚ Victor Frankenstein and his creature both are able to better themselves with nature in this sense. Nature replaces their nonexistent mothers and acts as a benefactor for them. Throughout
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sister‚ Margaret‚ of his well-being and informing her of his desire to navigate to the North Pole. His desire – as the reader will soon discover that is paralleled with Victor’s – is based on scientific curiosity and to achieve some “great purpose” (Shelley 53). In the second letter‚ Walton is seen complaining about his lack of companionship. Upon discovering Victor‚ whom he initially refers to as a stranger‚ however‚ Walton regards the stranger as the potential companion he never truly had; this is
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the rain pattered dismally against the panes‚ and my candle was nearly burnt out‚ when‚ by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light‚ I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard‚ and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs” (Shelley‚ 34). Thus begins the horror in Mary Shelley’s well-known gothic‚ romantic fiction‚ Frankenstein. This literary work‚ published in 1818‚ tells the story of a young scientist who comes upon the secrets to create life. The novel begins with the correspondence
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Direct evidence of Mary Shelley’s reading of Paradise Lost is all through her novel including the Monster’s last speech where he states‚ “I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames” (Shelley 161). Her references to the poem may be contradictory in a few places‚ but she found a pattern in the poem which could give form to her fears and her understanding of what technology threatened for the
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the main character‚ Victor‚ create a being out of body parts and bring it to life. Over the course of a couple years‚ this experiment dramatically changes the course of Victor’s life. His creature was not as he intended it to be‚ so he hated it. Shelley uses Romantic and Enlightenment thought in her horror novel to explain and demonstrate the different emotions of her character. In Frankenstein‚ Victor is unable to successfully “mother” his creation the way he had envisioned it because he never learned
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to tell his secret. Through Victor‚ Shelley warns us of the dangers of secrecy‚ and isolation‚ as well as the necessity of secrecy. In this classic‚ Shelley hints at secrecy should not be taken lightly; one must find equilibrium between isolation and publicity. In Frankenstein‚ Shelley warns of the dangers of isolation. For example‚ after Victor fled his own apartment‚ and meets up with Clerval‚ Clerval notices “how very ill” Victor appears‚ (Shelley 52). Clerval picks up on one of the
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horror‚ Mary Shelley exposes the fear that emerges from overstepping boundaries. She also uses violence to show how knowing too much consequently causes mayhem in one’s life‚ ruin their dreams and goals. Mary Shelley also uses the supernatural as an example of something we should not know too much about. Using man as his own worst enemy Mrs. Shelley shows that everything that went askew was all Victor’s fault‚ because he learned how to undo death‚ a talent no one should have. Mary Shelley affirms that
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greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life” (Shelley 37) With the death of loved ones and fascination with science‚ Victor begins on a private project that will make him “capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter” (Shelley 50). Victor’s first thought is that he created a whole new species that would bless him as their “creator and that would owe their being to me” (Shelley 52). His project becomes a project of artificial construction of a human being by
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In her article You Could Learn a lot from a Shelley posted on her Wordpress blog‚ Whitman’s Barbaric Yawp‚ Brandy D. Anderson discusses the learning opportunities present in Frankenstein’s countless characters. This article is relevant when studying Frankenstein because it unravels the layers of Frankenstein and brings forth a multitude of themes present in the novel. Anderson writes that through the action of the Monster saving the young girl from drowning‚ he is “immediately treated with fear and
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