Importance Of Literature In Frankenstein

Many people do not realize the benefits that reading a book entails; otherwise you would see more people racing to pick up their dusty old books as if it were one of Dr. Oz’s new miracle drugs. Instead people choose not to read because they are either impatient or they do not have the spare time available to allocate towards reading. The problem with people choosing not to read however, is that it’s more of the young population that’s not reading. In a study including more than “40 universities, foundations, business groups, and government agencies since 2004, found that almost half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 never read books for pleasure” (Boston.com 5). With more people putting reading aside and choosing to watch television,

They demonstrate that reading does indeed have an impact on the way you think, just look at Catherine the main protagonist of the story Northanger Abbey. She is deeply in love with reading Gothic novels, then suddenly begins to make profound assumptions about other characters such as General Tilney. We can also take a look at Victor Frankenstein and The Monster from the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. Particularly the Monster, whom stumbles upon a few highly influential books which seemed to shape him into the being he becomes later in the story. Therefore, due to the essential role literature plays in these novels, I will proceed to propose how literature affects the way we think and make decisions throughout our

Each book has its own special qualities that can change one’s mindset, but in the Monsters case it served as his foundation for what he believes. The book Sorrows of Werter gave the Monster a new perspective on the sentiments of man. Affecting him on an even higher level because he can understand and relate to what the main character was going through. “He weeps as Werter dies in the book. There aren 't any other characters that the monster can identify with in his life, only this fictional character that seems to share his pain.” (Gradesaver 2). This changed him, causing him to go through an intense stage of self-questioning and alienation. The next book the Monster discovered was The Volume of Plutarch’s Lives. This in turn led the Monster to begin thinking about the wellbeing of others, apart from himself. “He elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections to admire and love the heroes of past ages.” (Frankenstein ch 15 paragraph 6). Finally the most influential book would have to be Paradise Lost, being that it is the book he can relate to most. One of the characters he can sympathize with most is Adam, this is because he and Adam share the same feeling of loneliness in the world. The aspect of the book you can assume is the most interesting to the monster would be how God the creator, is at war with his own creations. Since he is in a similar situation with Victor