...The Real Monster Science is a broad field which covers many aspects of everyday life and existence. Some areas of science include the study of the universe, the environment, dinosaurs, animals, and insects. Another popular science is the study of people and how they function. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is an inspiring scientist that studies the dead. He wants to be the first person to give life to a dead human being. He spends all of his time concentrating on this goal, and gives up his family and friends. When he finally accomplishes this, everything falls apart. So, Victor Frankenstein is to blame for the tragedy, not the monster he has created, because he is the mastermind behind the whole operation, and he is supposed to have everything under control, working properly as a good scientist should do. Although some critics say that the monster Victor has created is to blame for the destruction and violence that follow the experiment, it is Victor who is the responsible party. First, Victor, being the scientist, should have known how to do research on the subject a lot more than he had done. He obviously has not thought of the consequences that may result from it such as the monster going crazy, how the monster reacts to people and things, and especially the time it will take him to turn the monster into the perfect normal human being. This is obviously something that would take a really long time and a lot of patience which Victor lacks. All...
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...The theme of monstrosity pervades the entire novel, as the monster lies at the center of the action. Eight feet tall and hideously ugly, the monster is rejected by society. However, his monstrosity results not only from his grotesque appearance but also from the unnatural manner of his creation, which involves the secretive animation of a mix of stolen body parts and strange chemicals. He is a product not of collaborative scientific effort but of dark, supernatural workings. The monster is only the most literal of a number of monstrous entities in the novel, including the knowledge that Victor used to create the monster. One can argue that Victor himself is a kind of monster, as his ambition, secrecy, and selfishness alienate him from human society. He is a selfish man who first creates the creature because he himself could not bear the loss of a loved one. Ordinary on the outside, he may be the true “monster” inside, as he is eventually consumed by an obsessive hatred of his creation. Finally, many critics have described the novel itself as monstrous, a stitched-together combination of different voices, texts, and tenses. The creature that Victor Frankenstein develops is considered a monster by all of the other people. No one is there to notice that there is a soft interior underneath the hard and ugly shell. While Frankenstein would not save a life when it would have cost him almost nothing, the creature saved a life when he could have perished as well. We see that while...
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...The novel’s title, Frankenstein, references the protagonist’s name, Victor Frankenstein. In modern adaptations, Frankenstein’s monster is commonly referred to as “Frankenstein”, even though Mary Shelley never names the monster. The common misconception is likely rooted in the novel’s title. As a result, the monster is unofficially named “Frankenstein” by readers, and Shelley may have done this intentionally to convey how after the murders, the monster is the last evidence of Victor Frankenstein’s “family”. In addition, it may also allude to the idea that as the creator of the monster, Victor assumes the role of a father; therefore, as the “child” and Victor’s product, the monster also assumes his father’s last name. The novel is also subtitled...
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...Monsters can come in different physical features, however all creatures have the same evil mindset. A monster is a being that damages and puts fear inside certain individuals. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a good example of how appearance does not show weather or not a creature is a monster or not. In the story, Victor Frankenstein tries to change nature by creating a powerful human being. The being seems, by all accounts, to be a monster. Victor gets to be so obsessed on working on his creation suddenly rejects it after being terrified at the monsters appearance. Victor is the real monster because of his desire for power, lack of respect for nature, and his stubbornness towards the monster in which he created. Due to Victor's requirement...
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...This monster is known to be a feared monster that has parts of the dead made by Victor Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein is a normal person and he went crazy into trying to find the secret to life and death itself and in chapter 4 Victor makes his biggest victory over life and death so he goes and makes a man out of skin and bones and when he first knows that it worked he was happy and excited and when he sees his monster he is horrified by what he sees he sees a man with yellow eyes looking at him and the creation had black lips that are as black as charcoal was scaring him. Victor Frankenstein runs away and meets his friend Henry and they return to Frankenstein house and frankenstein was scared that his monster was still there and how...
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...standards of living and those who do not adhere to the rules are considered monsters. It is for this reason that the responsibility falls on society for the creation of monsters since society is responsible for creating the rules and standards in the first place. In literature, and the modern day, it is the creation and expression of superficial standards that creates monsters. In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein attempts to create a man but the man that he creates turns out to be hideous in appearance. The only differences between the man created by Frankenstein and a man created in the typical sense of birth are (1) the manner by which the men are brought into the world, and (2) the...
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...Frankenstein: The First Modern Monster Story When we hear Frankenstein the image that many of us think of today is that of a mindless monster with bolts in his neck who wishes to terrorize anyone who crosses his path. This image is far different from that of the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In Shelley’s novel Frankenstein’s monster is smart, caring, and he posses near super human strength and speed. Frankenstein is thought to be heavily influenced by of many of the places and events in Shelly’s life. For example many of the scientific themes are thought to be influenced by the scientific revolution which was being analyzed during the romanticism period which is when Frankenstein was written. Frankenstein is often considered to be the first modern monster story because it deals with many modern issues, it has many differences from earlier monster stories, and because it is written using a modern romanticism writing style. The most prevalent modern issue dealt with in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the boundaries between religion and science. In the novel Victor uses science to create life which is something that only God can do. Frankenstein’s monster compares himself to Adam and Victor to God when he says, “Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”(Shelley 66), this quote is an example of Shelley relating religion and science. During the period of Enlightenment science...
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...As soon as the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein came alive, “it” was a mean looking brute. Even though it looked evil, the monster was actually a smart and kind giant whose terrible acts were caused by others doing it harm; the monster is morally ambiguous, which prevents it from being labeled as either fully good-hearted or evil, and lets the reader pick whether or not it is an inherently good creature turned bad by the circumstances. The monster is morally ambiguous in the sense that while it does commit terrible crimes, it is actually a kind creature that only truly desires love from a family. Unfortunately for the monster, Victor Frankenstein rejected it as kin. The monster tells his creator that, “All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! 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 83). Even though the monster has good intentions of making friends with the townsfolk, his kindness is often met with malice. The creature does not like hurting the people he so desperately wants to befriend, but the reaction it gets from Victor is enough to spur the violence. The monster is willing to compromise its kind...
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...Victor is born. Victor’s parents adopt Elizabeth Lavenza. Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein dies of scarlet fever. Victor leaves Geneva for the university in Ingolstadt. Victor brings the monster to life, and frightened by it, runs away. The monster learns how to communicate from the cottagers, but is mad when Felix is horrified by him. The monster vows revenge on humanity and specifically Victor, and heads to Geneva. The monster strangles and kills William. Justine is blamed for it and is executed. Victor meets the monster who tells him to make a companion for him and that he will no longer kill if he has a partner. Victor and Henry travel through England and Scotland together. Victor starts to work on the female monster in an island...
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...In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, Victor and the Monster can realistically be the same person because of the struggles they both endure physically and mentally and the intelligence the both acquire. Victor and the monster both encounter struggles with isolation. Victor takes solitude when he is creating the monster. He isolates himself from the rest of the world and has no interaction with his family or friends. When Clerval, his friend, comes to Ingolstadt University, Clerval notices how mentally and physically ill Victor really is. The isolation from the real world for several years turned Victor “lifeless, and did not recover [his] senses for a long, long time” (Shelley 55). The creation of the monster literally took the life out of Victor and cut off all his...
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...Victor Frankenstein should consent to the monster’s request and create a female companion for the monster, as it will make him happier, less violent, and allow him to better enact his genuinely good intentions, while having the closest thing that he can have to a family. One reason Victor should create a female companion for the monster is so the monster will be happier and not have to suffer alone. When he is expressing his desire for a companion to Victor, the monster says “If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them an hundred and an hundredfold;” (Shelley 105). This reveals that the monster will be kind to his companion and he be happier, because he will have someone who he can care for, that will also care...
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...A Monster’s Intrigue Think many would enjoy running for their lives from the clutches of a monster? No, obviously someone would not want that. It would be terrifying, however, there is a large following of monster stories and darker ones. When I ask others for their opinion of this oddity, most were forced to scour their brains for any semblance of an answer which made sense. The reason that so many are infatuated with monstrous fiction and cinema is because the monsters are often interesting biologically, they provide complex and conflicting emotions, and often times the protagonist of the story is more complex than in normal stories. This is especially true when faced with a horrifying monster! Monstrous entities in darker stories can be...
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...Science brings us immense discoveries, many that are of the utmost welfare for humanity, however just because scientists have the aptness and resources to perform these herculean experiments, doesn’t mean they ought to implement them all. We can indeed say that for once, God has competition. Scientists have infringed a societal boundary, and we, as the general population, do not have an opportunity to debate the social, ethical, and all other environmental implications of synthetic life. Like the creations of synthetic biology, Victor Frankenstein’s creature was a prime example of a ‘monster’ in this sense. A meticulous example of synthetic biology, which is currently being practised and adapted by scientists, is the very first performance of a head transplant surgery for humans. This is by far surpassing the boundaries of humanity which God set for us in...
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...Introduction Many literary critics consider Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as one of the most impressive and imaginative Gothic horror novels of all times. In the novel, Shelley managed to create one of the most phenomenal creatures in literary history: Frankenstein monster. The epistolary style that the author employs allows the reader to view the circumstances from varied viewpoints and draw conclusions from the plot and the characters. The book The plot has a variety of story-lines rolled into one. The main however is about a Doctor Victor Frankenstein who though born to a well-to-do and loving family, is over- ambitious and thirsts to prove himself. After achieving excelling academically, he designs a technique of creating life from a fusion of inanimate objects, dead bodies an animal parts. The doctor is not satisfied with achieving conventional feats but is determined to create a living being. It is this ambition that leads to the creation after years of painstaking work. It is this creation that leads to Victor's downfall. The creation is 8 feat tall and due to the use of human parts that do not march his massive size, is hideous. He is described as having watery yellow eyes, a withered, yellowish, translucent skin which barely conceals his muscular system and blood vessels. The only good aspects of his appearance are his perfect, white teeth, long black hair and his black lips. The doctor, who had hoped to create a beautiful being is shocked by his creation...
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...sympathy is used throughout the novel ‘Frankenstein’. Mary Shelley has used it in order for us as the reader to feel sorrow for both Victor Frankenstein and the monster. A reason why Mary Shelley used sympathy repeatedly could be connected to the fact that she had such a tough life, she had been surrounded by death and sadness; her mum died giving birth to her, 3 of her 4 children died, her half sister committed suicide and her sons first wife drowned herself. This pain and suffering that she has gone through her whole life is very similar to what Victor Frankenstein went through, and Shelley could have related parts of it about her. This is seen when she emphasizes the pain Victor feels for Elizabeth and William, when they are murdered by the monster. When the monster first comes to life, Frankenstein says “but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and the breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” this is the first point, where the reader sympathise for the monster because his creator, his “father” detests him, and neglects him, he receives no instruction or assistance at helping himself blend into a normal society. Later on in chapter 5, Victor meets up with his old friend Henry Clerval for the first time in ages, Henry comments on his health saying “I did not before remark how very ill you appear so thin and pale; and look as if you had been watching several nights” this makes us feel sympathy for Frankenstein because he is a mess and even if he does...
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