...through the use of her characters Victor Frankenstein and his creation. They are constantly craving for the demolition of each other, and it takes a large toll on their mind-set, and even on their loved ones around them. Victor Frankenstein is enraged that his creation murdered some of his loved ones. This results in him to want nothing other than the abolition of his creation, or as he refers to him, “the monster.” The creation only wants love and companionship from others, but is denied the request on multiple accounts due to his horrendous appearance. The creation places the blame for his loneliness on Victor...
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...be disastrous, in this case, deadly. Victor Frankenstein is the creator of the creature. Victor becomes obsessed with the idea of creating the human form and bringing it to life. Immediately after creating the creature, he is terrified because he doesn't truly understand what he has created. He returns home to his family, only to find tragedy there. Victor is not fully aware of the consequences of his actions and in a turn of events he spends his entire life trying to destroy the the one thing he spent his entire life creating. Much like a mother figure Victor Frankenstein brings a creature into the world but unlike most mothers Victor...
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...Frankenstein Critical Reading Portfolio Section I: Significance of Title The title is significant because Frankenstein is the man who had created something beautiful that no one else has ever done before. One may think that the title Frankenstein sounds like something destructive. In this, Frankenstein symbolizes God and a parent to the monster because he saw himself as creating life from scratch and creating something that has never been done by anyone else. He sees himself as a parent because to him, the monster is his son. Even though the monster isn’t genetically Frankenstein’s son, he still sees him as that because he created him and invested so much time into creating him. Section II: Author The author of this book is Mary Shelley. In this story, Mary Shelley clearly expresses that the monster had trouble getting to know people because of his looks. One may say that her major theme was appearances because of how she puts the monster into talking about the way he looks and the way he sees other people. This is expressed a lot throughout the story. Another thing that one may have noticed is that there weren’t really any mother figures in this book and she kind of made it a male based story. The reason why one may point this out is because of how Victor creates a “son” without a wife in the picture and how the story goes on with this. Section III: Plot The plot exposition is within the letters written between Walton and his sister. They are telling the story of Victor...
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...world full of judgement, the Frankenstein family face a massive amounts of obstacles they must overcome. In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, multiple societal standards are shown against the monster and the Frankenstein family. With the choices made and the creation of a monster, the family is outcasted by society. When the monster is created he is harshly judged by his appearance, leaving him to live a sorrowful life. When death is brought upon the society and also members of the Frankenstein family, many emotions begin to surface. There are many societal standards shown in the book Frankenstein, but the most obvious are discrimination, barbarism, and misconception by the society. Shown extensively in the book, discrimination is one of the most obvious societal standards. When the family is judged and treated by how wealthy or unwealthy they are, they are forced to work for their food unlike the other families. They are mistreated and harshly criticized because they are poor. INSERT QUOTE. Also the family is discriminated against because of how they look. Being at the bottom of the social class the family isn’t the best looking and they don’t...
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...Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein to have her readers on their toes and want to sleep with one eye open. Frankenstein is about a man named Victor Frankenstein that is fascinated by the mysteries of the natural world and decides that he wants to do the impossible. Victor’s mission was to construct an animate creature by collecting spare body parts. However, a series of tragic events occur after the creation comes to life. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that a monster is, “something monstrous; especially: a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty” (Merriam-Webster). Before reading the novel the reader would assume the creation is the monster, but Mary Shelley leaves that determination to the reader....
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...More often than not, when people hear the name Frankenstein they immediately think of the monster, but they rarely think of the scientist who created him. The obsession with the monster has led people to refer to the monster as Frankenstein, but in reality, Mary Shelley, the author of the book, never named the monster. The true main character of Frankenstein is Victor Frankenstein. This common misconception is due to popular movies such as Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brooks; unfortunately for many this is their only exposure to the story. If more people were to read the book they would quickly discover that Victor Frankenstein is immoral, obsessive, and secretive. A person is thought to be immoral if they do not conform to accepted...
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...This quote demonstrates the how the creator of the monster, Victor, thoroughly picked the beautiful physical characteristic which eventually created the creature from dead people. Reading Paradise Lost helped the creature express the emotions he felt by depicting the feelings into words. The creature reflects how Victor put so much thought into creating and perfecting him, similar to Adam. Although the process of his creation resembled of Adam’s, the rest of the creature’s history is not what he aspires to be. The way Victor and other people denied him a chance at life and left him in isolation forces the creature to think that he and Satan in fact have a mirroring life. Although the creature was created to fill a void Victor feels, the creature was excluded from society because he does not posses the characteristics Victor’s felt comfortable with....
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...The creature I have chosen that is morally ambiguous is Frankenstein's creature. He is morally ambiguous because throughout the text his actions are cruel, but the way he was brought into the world plays a large role. Victor’s abandonment of the creature played a large role in his outcome; Victor is ultimately responsible for his actions. Actions have consequences. When Frankenstein abandoned his creature, he doesn't take it lightly. He seeks out human interaction wherever he can find it, but gets drove away time and time again. The creation longed for nothing more than he did a companion, "You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can...
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...FRANKENSTEIN Study Guide Homework: Please write your answers on separate paper. Letters 1-4 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? Mrs. Saville, his sister 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? St. Petersburg, Russia. He is hiring a crew for his ship. He intends to sail to the North Pole and discover magnetism. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? He is passionately committed to discovery and adventure. He wishes he had a friend with the same sensibilities and he says he is self-taught. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"? Walton is out to sea, sailing north. The quotation establishes the Romantic idea of the power of emotion over reason. 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors? One month has lapsed. The accident is the ship is trapped in ice and fog. 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? The man says he is “seek[ing] one who fled from me” (11) and he asks which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death, weak and emaciated. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man? The man remains silent and this creates a sense of mystery around him. Walton finds...
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...FRANKENSTEIN Study Guide Homework: Please write your answers on separate paper. Letters 1-4 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? Mrs. Saville, his sister 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? St. Petersburg, Russia. He is hiring a crew for his ship. He intends to sail to the North Pole and discover magnetism. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? He is passionately committed to discovery and adventure. He wishes he had a friend with the same sensibilities and he says he is self-taught. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"? Walton is out to sea, sailing north. The quotation establishes the Romantic idea of the power of emotion over reason. 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors? One month has lapsed. The accident is the ship is trapped in ice and fog. 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? The man says he is “seek[ing] one who fled from me” (11) and he asks which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death, weak and emaciated. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man? The man remains silent and this creates a sense of mystery around him. Walton finds...
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...When people become they sick they tend to stay inside and isolate themselves from society, for fear of getting others sick or quite possibly worsening their own condition. Throughout the course of Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, falls violently ill many times, separating himself from society. His unhealthy state seems to be a direct result to the monster he has created, because he succumbs to illness almost immediately after a difficult or traumatizing event with the monster. Frankenstein’s creation of the monster causes him great grief and guilt, because of the feeling of responsibility for the monster’s harmful actions. The character of Victor Frankenstein subconsciously uses illness as a way to...
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...own. When Frankenstein attempts to abandon his creature to its own vices, Shelley punishes his ignorance and shallowness. When Frankenstein originally creates the Creature, he describes it as unholy which Shelley uses to criticize his misunderstanding and disinterest in attempting to understand. Frankenstein runs away from the Creature in an attempt to disestablish himself with it. Unbeknownst to the reader at this time, the creature begins his understanding of his suffering and the unjust cause of it, his creator. Frankenstein forces the Creature into the world and does not help prepare it at all and abandons it to its, as Frankenstein believes, vices. Shelley attacks Frankenstein’s ignorance of proper caregiving. Without any compassion towards his Creature, Frankenstein displays inhumane qualities that should not...
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...throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I will argue that knowledge is the major cause of suffering throughout this novel and it is what eventually drives one character to death, and another to the realization of what could possibly happen to him if continues as he is. The quest for knowledge is present throughout the entire novel and is implemented by multiple characters, with each presenting the same result. Starting with Victor Frankenstein, it becomes known that he strives to gain as much knowledge as he can, but eventually this expedition lands him in situations that are dangerous and unwanted. Victor’s main focus is science and despite his father’s wishes, he attends University and pursues his dreams. At the time when Victor attended college, there was little known about the field of science, especially chemistry. As Victor continues on in his endeavors, his thirst for knowledge (to learn?) continues to grow,...
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...When Victor Frankenstein reanimated the creature, the creature only wanted to feel love and acceptance towards his creator; however, that does not occur because of the monsters’ hideous appearance. The monster feelings of loneliness and rejection led him to become the creature full of anger and later started seeking revenge towards the people Victor loved. To the creature, murdering the people Victor loved dearly was his form of seeking justice. He wanted to make Victor feel the same pain and loneliness so he would hunt down his family and friends as a way of him feeling justice and seeking revenge. The monster believes that seeking revenge on innocent civilians is a way of justice, the monsters’ justice successfully done since he managed to murder a few people Victor loved, and how morally wrong his way of justice is....
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...The next change was when Harry finally did receive the memory he was challenged to get. He had to go to the Hogwarts potions teacher, Professor Slughorn. He and Dumbledore watched the memory and saw a conversation with Voldemort as a student with Slughorn about horcruxes. Horcruxes are an evil way that you can keep your soul alive if you die. That was the piece of the puzzle they were missing. Dumbledore’s theory was complete, Voldemort split his soul into different horcruxes to stay away from his biggest fear, death. Dumbledore knew that in order to destroy Voldemort they would have to hunt down the horcruxes and destroy all of them until ultimately destroying Voldemort himself. Harry convinced Dumbledore to go with him on the hunt for the...
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