Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, was published in the early 19th
century. At the time, experiments involving electricity and anatomy
were being carried out. The writer, Mary Shelly, makes us feel
different emotions towards the creature. She does this by having the
story told by the two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and
Frankenstein’s monster, for each half of the story. When Frankenstein
is telling the story you either feel fear or hatred towards the
creature because of the things he calls is like “devil” and “wretch”
and the way he describes the monster as if its some kind of beast.
However when the creature tells the story in his own words he makes
you feel sympathy towards him and he says how he is treated and feels
like an outcast or freak.
Mary Shelly creates a state of fear towards the reader in the part of
the story were Frankenstein brings his creature to life. Frankenstein
is the narrator here and starts by saying, “It was on a dreary night
of November,” Having the completion of the creature and it being given
life at night would give a scary thought to any reader “and my candle
was nearly burnt out,” so it was going to be hard to see anything that
may be shocking, scary or fearful in this scene. Then he jumps
straight into the creature’s rebirth by saying, “I saw the dull yellow
eye of the creature open” for a lifeless body to have its eye just
open and look around, especially for a creature such as this one with
its enormous stature and fearful design it would give the impression
that something scary is going to happen. Frankenstein then goes on to
describe the creature and wonder ...
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...bered the previous words
spoken by the monster “I will be with you on your wedding night” and
now he realized that it wasn’t to be his last night on earth it was to
be his one true love.
The story is well put together and I congratulate Mary Shelly on her
well-written story. I don’t think that the story could have been told
in a more suited way, obviously this way may not work for other
stories at each story will have its own way of telling itself. To have
Frankenstein tell one half of the story to give us the sense of fear
towards the creature and make us want to hate and detest the beast was
the best thought up idea and for the other half of the story have the
creature himself tell you about his travels and how he longs for a
friend or companion to talk to about his misfortune was also a
fantastic idea.