Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Throughout all of human history, people have tried to be the first to accomplish certain things so that they could make themselves famous. They feel that if they reach a goal that seems so hard to accomplish, that they will get their name in history books and that the mere mention of their name will bring about .respect and admiration. In Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein shows this characteristic of being egotistical self absorbed and arrogant. He has a thirst for knowledge that is obvious, and the desire that he has for it is blinding and he does not realize it until he is driven mad by it. His aspirations at first look may seem to be a positive way to help humanity. He wants to get rid of diseases so that man will live forever. He describes himself as being "dedicated", "frantic", and "tortured", from his relentless work. He became so dedicated to his work that he became ill, and his only concern was to reach his goal. Victor's father tries to contact him, but Frankenstein is so selfish, that he makes no effort to communicate to his own father. Victor has this image in his mind of creating a being that is beyond human, made from remnants of the dead, but he thinks that it would still be a beautiful creation. He shows pride in his work because he picks out good parts to make it from, like white teeth and thick, black hair. The image of beauty stays with him, only until the spark is put in the monster and he becomes alive. Then just as the charge that gave the monster life, a charge hits Victor as fast and powerful that makes him realize what exactly he had done. He then sees that his creation is hideous and he has no idea what to do. When he sees what he has accomplished, he tries to ignore what he has done and denies all of his responsibilities that came with his creation. He abandons the creature and has no intention of doing any sort of scientific experiments and does not even care to try to learn from what he has done. This showing of recklessness and non devotion show that Frankenstein is not as good of a scientist as he thinks himself
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how victor's father tries to reach his goal, but he became ill.
- Analyzes how the monster thinks that he owes him something. the monster is happy.
- Explains that he had the intelligence to do amazing things, and longed for his death.
- Opines that if they reach a goal that seems so hard to accomplish, that they will get their name in history books and that the mere mention of their names will bring about.
- Analyzes how the man's aspirations at first look may seem a positive way to help humanity. he wants to get rid of diseases.
- Narrates how victor creates a monster that is beyond human, made from remnants of the dead, but he thinks it would still be beautiful. the image of beauty stays with him until the spark is put in the monster.
- Analyzes how frankenstein's recklessness and non-devotion show that he isn't as good of a scientist.
- Explains that the monster that he creates is the father of a species that lives forever. the monster has child like
- Analyzes the role of a god that demands worship from his creations. he wants the power that comes with godly status, but lacks knowledge and intellect.
- Opines that the man was not remembered for his success as a genius, but he failed in creating the living creature. he didn't have the right intentions, and was too weak to handle the pressure.
- Explains that victor frankenstein put himself through all of the trials that he went through and ultimately drove himself insane and led to his own death.
- Analyzes how the immature child didn't understand what it was like to be the creator of something and how to deal with it.
- Narrates how a weak minded person felt his only escape was death. for the weak, death is the easiest way out.
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- Describes what would have been like if she had met her rather than dying ten days after.
- Describes his home and all that he has forgotten, but as they were about.
- Analyzes how the rest of the book is a reaction to bringing the dead back to life.
- Opines that victor is weak and it is only near the end of the novel that he becomes weak.
- Analyzes how the novel ends on the course of despair that it began in.
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- Opines that every parent owes their child a little care and consideration.
- Opines that the creature received from frankenstein and the other people around him, and wonders how things would have turned out had he been treated with a little bit of humanism and compassion.
- Analyzes how the film is meant as a parody of all the films based on the novel, but underlying this humor are more serious points.
- Compares the 1931 film version of young frankenstein with that of the novel. frederick, the grandson of victor, is a lecturer on neurosurgeons in new york.
- Analyzes how mary shelley's version of frankenstein uses igor and inga for comic effect. thunder, lightening, and darkness are used to make the atmosphere scary and teeming with danger.
- Narrates how frederick discovers his grandfather's laboratory and his notes for how he made the creature. the book is humorously titled "how i did it."
- Analyzes how wilder is playing it straight, but his essential madness begins to peep through. frederick, like victor, is seized by the egotism to be god-like.
- Analyzes how igor botches the brain of dr. hans delbrook, a genius, philosopher, and saint. he spills the good brain on the floor and takes the "abnormal brain"
- Analyzes how frederick's reaction to the creature is different from that of shelley. he is emotional and throws a tantrum because he failed to bring it to life.
- Narrates how frederick's experiment worked, but things go awry when fire is introduced to the creature, which also happened in the 1931 film. victor asks igor about the brain, and will most likely have to destroy it
- Analyzes how frau blucher, a woman who was the girlfriend of victor, cares greatly for the creature in young frankenstein. she uses the violin to tame him.
- Analyzes how the creature is exposed to fire and runs off. frederick is terribly afraid that he'll kill someone, and so they try to plan a way to catch him. the scene with the little girl is not in shelley's novel.
- Analyzes how the creature in young frankenstein learns language and feelings by observing the family in the hovel.
- Analyzes how frederick decides to have himself locked in with the creature, to show him that he is loved, and cries "love is the only thing that can save this poor creature." brooks maintains that even though his film is a parody of the frankenstein movies,
- Analyzes how frederick experiences fear while locked in the room with the creature, and decides to encourage it, when he discovers that it's not attacking him.
- Analyzes how frankenstein calls the creature "abhorred devil" and "fiend" in the novel, but it doesn't encourage him to stop his evil-doings.
- Analyzes how the creature escapes and goes back to frankenstein's castle. a mob goes after him, but doesn't find him immediately. the creature takes elizabeth from the castle and carries her into the woods.
- Analyzes how the attitudes of the characters toward the creature are different from shelleys' novel and even from the other films.
- Analyzes how frederick lured the creature back into his hands to save him in a brain transference with himself. the creature stops the mob and speaks for the first time.
- Analyzes how frederick marries inga, the creature gets elizabeth, and they live happily ever after in the frankenstein castle. the creature reads the wall street journal and seems completely well-adjusted to human society.
- Analyzes how frederick showed his creature love and treated him like a son and fellow human being. frederick helped the creature several times, at the risk of his own life.
- Compares how the creature felt unloved by his father, and plotted revenge on victor, taking his family away.
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In this essay, the author
- Opines that frankenstein is a villain in the book. he promotes the idea of evil through creating the creature.
- Analyzes how victor is responsible for the monster's actions because he abandons his creation meaning the creature is dejected and ends up hideous and fiendish.
- Analyzes how victor learns about human nature when the monster flees to the cottagers.
- Analyzes how victor is a villain because he devotes all his time and energy to creating life. it is beyond our boundaries to play god.
- Explains that victor and the monster are two parts of one person. the monster is all of frankenstein's ambitions and dreams while victor is what he actually is. both characters are the same in feelings, characteristics and actions.
- Analyzes how victor is jealous of his cousin william's appearance, character, and health. he wants to be noticed and admired and become popular.
- Argues that the monster could be interpreted as the villain because victor created the monster.
- Explains that victor is a normal being who is fulfilling his life long ambition. he created the monster, therefore the monster is responsible for his actions and thoughts.
- Argues that victor is entirely at fault because he has to be held responsible for his own creation. he should have cared for it despite it being so ugly.
- Concludes that victor is the villain because he abandons the creature and leaves it to fend for itself. he wants to be worshipped and acknowledged like a god.
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- Analyzes how victor avoided explaining that he had created a giant, hideous, deformed monster. he couldn't even get himself to share the secret that would fill his ears with fear.
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- Analyzes how victor must change his ways of thought or be consumed by the rage, sorrow, and depression of his father leaving his mom and him alone on the coeur d' alene indian reservation in idaho.
- Analyzes how victor is rude, aggressive, cocky, and bully to anyone he encounters, but has a soft spot for his mother. his cousin, thomas, understands victor's feelings and tries to love him the best they can.
- Narrates how victor and thomas hit the road on a bus to phoenix, arizona, and meet two cowboys who steal their row on the bus while victor is showing thomas how to loosen up by getting him some good clothes.
- Analyzes how the boys woke up in the midst of the night to draw to a close the story they created, home. they left without saying farewell to suzy and took victor's dad’s truck.
- Analyzes how victor's travels have opened a new and better past present and future for himself and others around him.
666 wordsRead More - Frankenstein: Less Human Than His Creationanalytical essayevil; while Victor acts out of greed. Victor’s self-centered behavior effects everyone in the novel; he hurts his family’s
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how victor's ego in his search for god-like capabilities overpowers his humanity. the creature is nothing but benevolent until society shuns him as an outcast on account of his deformities.
- Compares victor frankenstein and his creation. both are abandoned by their creators at a young age, and are isolated and outcasts of society.
- Compares frankenstein and satan's character in paradise lost. both succumb to selfishness when they fall.
- Analyzes how victor and his creation differ greatly. only after rejection does the creature turn to evil; while victor acts out of greed. victor's self-centered behavior effects everyone in the novel.
963 wordsRead More - Playing God in Mary Shelley's Frankensteinanalytical essaytransgression and his vulgar presumption that he can emulate its force. What drives Victor to do
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- Opines that christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural.
- Explains that man was the sole subject, speaker, and rational sovereign of the natural order.
- Explains that victor, like the alchemists he studies, seeks to fulfill the four attributes that waldman, his.
- Explains that in the early days, man had no power over nature and turned instead to his mind and its thoughts.
- Opines that being as strong as the gods renders them superfluous and puts nature in a cage.
- Describes elizabeth as an embodiment of nature's most beautiful side with her "celestial eyes".
- Analyzes how the male abandons the work or refuses it.
- Opines that spirits aid in apprehending the daemon that causes the misery without realizing.
- Opines that nature knows that walton will abandon his bold and arrogant mission.
- Opines that for eternities, it did not exist; and when it is once again extinct, nothing will have.
- Opines that it is human, only, and only its possessor and inventor treat it as seriously as if the axis of
- Opines that the claim of four innocent lives for the sake of punishing one man appears unjust.
- Analyzes how aristotle defines the tragic hero as a man of high social status who invites the gods to punish him through overbearing pride and/or presumption – hubris.
- Analyzes how victor frankenstein invokes the spirits of nature and swears by the sacred earth on which he kneels to get his revenge. the setting of the novel is ideal for such an offense.
- Explains that nature was inexorably tied to the ultimate spirit, and although men could speak to spirits, they were in no way like the spirits.
- Explains that naturalists believed that nature belonged to them and that if god allowed them to get so close to nature and its functions, they were obviously allowed to play with it as they pleased.
- Opines that it is surprising that westerners came to think of galileo, newton, and their successors as the true order of nature.
- Describes how they penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places. they can command the thunders of heaven.
- Analyzes how victor returns to scientists who "penetrate into the recesses of nature... acquired new and unlimited powers and mocked the invisible world with its own shadows."
- Opines that one wonders why victor is so chided and tortured for doing so. the explanation lies in the nature of the creation.
- Analyzes how victor forces life to manifest under his terms and conditions and turns out to be a disgrace.
- Analyzes how victor takes the power he acquired through knowledge and attempted to reproduce it to the point where it treads on the laws of nature.
- Analyzes how victor has disobeyed nature's powers and put a strain on his society by forcing it to deal with the "unnatural" creation.
- Analyzes victor's use of the word "reflection" to mean a simple introspection.
- Analyzes how the monster is forced to learn by itself, like an abandoned infant. nature adopts the wretched creature and protects it from its father's custody.
- Analyzes how victor identifies with his mother, recovering her body in his own as he attempts to become pregnant, labor in childbirth, and watch the child awaken, gesture and attempt to speak.
- Analyzes how nature's disregard for victor comes to fruition in more vengeful ways. the monster is imbued with physical abilities far superior to those of humans.
- Opines that nature's goal of capturing the monster is a pointless one. nature has the power to swim with lightning speed and leap through mountains.
- Analyzes how victor is tortured with the loss of life in his close circle, he is mentally torture — nature gives his monster the strength and abilities to pursue its creator.
- Analyzes how victor is supposed to arrive in geneva in autumn, but because of inclement weather during the winter, he arrives in spring, which is a time of natural birth and splendor.
- Analyzes how victor turns to nature for comfort when he seeks to escape the burden of his responsibility for these two deaths.
- Narrates how they were tempted to plunge into the silent lake after the rest of the family had retired for the night.
- Analyzes how victor allows nature to control him and take him. he praises nature and its powers and seeks to console himself.
- Opines that consolation usually lulls victor into a false sense of security, similar to the example of his arrival at his college.
- Analyzes how nature plots against and fools victor, and elizabeth is murdered by victor's monster under the "pale yellow light of the moon."
- Analyzes how victor's dream of elizabeth as the epitome of what is naturally beautiful is furthered by his nightmare upon first seeing the monster.
- Analyzes how the ultimate trick nature plays on victor isn't the aforementioned example of his father's letter, nor the haunting reminders about his sin in his dreams. he is always teased into thinking that he is close to capturing the monster.
- Analyzes how nature stops victor from catching up and keeps him alive and helped along by the monster, only to be taunted and reprimanded by mother nature.
- Analyzes how nature turns its back on victor once again, seeking peace and an escape from the family turmoil.
- Analyzes the nature of the female monster, which seeks companionship and vows to leave victor and humanity in peace upon its fulfillment.
- Analyzes how victor creates a being when not asked, but he refuses it upon request of two beings that have proven superior to him, the monster and nature.
- Analyzes victor's method of discarding the female monster. he dumps the remains into the sea and waits until the moon is overspread by a thick cloud.
- Analyzes how nature returns parts to the ocean, a vastly unexplored object of nature, and waits until not even the moon can witness the act.
- Analyzes how victor's attempts at hiding from his punisher are futile and his insistence on hiding is similar to the irony in victor’s keeping his crime from men.
- Argues that the nature of the knowledge victor acquires is indeed the driving force towards the object, the monster, but there is only an issue when victor invents that nature in his own mind.
- Analyzes how nature can mean the tendencies of the human.
- Analyzes how victor reveals his sightlessness to the truth by calling his passion an "unnatural stimulus."
- Analyzes how the monster uses nature to destroy the delacey cottage, but one questions whether it was his inner drive or the outside force of nature that urges him to act out on his anger.
- Analyzes how victor has only superficially learned his lesson. he makes claims such as "revenge kept me alive," (shelley 172), and thanks his "guiding spirit" for sustaining him throughout his hopeless pursuit of the monster.
- Narrates how they knelt on the grass, kissed the earth, and with quivering lips exclaimed, ‘by the sacred earth on which they kneel, by the shades that wander near me,’ to purse the daemon, who caused this misery.
- Analyzes how nature is cruel to victor, and the text itself is almost painful for the reader. victor kisses and makes physical contact with nature, invokes the spirits and laws he himself offends.
- Analyzes how the monster, a creature created by parts dug from the earth, is destroyed by fire and has its ashes blown into the water by the wind.
- Asks, is walton a mere foil for victor, or is it simply another instrument to tell the story that is ultimately told to the reader?
- Explains that victor is placed in walton's path, arguably by the laws of nature, but this is an oversimplification. he seeks to explore the unexplored but never mentions that he wants to imitate nature’s ultimate duty
- Analyzes how walton reflects attributes of both the monster and victor. he starts by stating, "i shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited."
- Analyzes how walton's appearance in the novel sheds light on another hypothesis: that victor is kept alive to suffer, but also to tell the tale and become a teacher to others as the monster is to him.
- Analyzes how nature has created a chain, as it does in other aspects of itself.
- Analyzes how victor fails to see that his passion is a self-centered one and dies blindly clinging to the notion that he is the mere creation of the monster and the inability to apprehend it.
- Argues that the self-destruction of the monster is nature’s apology for its cruelty.
- Opines that the best way to avoid such a label is to spare walton and sacrifice the monster, its own son, thus establishing nature and its laws and powers as worthy of the type of respect
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In this essay, the author
- Narrates how victor meets the monster on the glacier, who proposes his plan of a female monster for him. after doubts about the proposal, victor decides to travel to england to study and further his knowledge.
- Narrates how victor decides to separate from henry and continue his quest to build a female companion for the monster.
- Narrates how victor "breaks camp", destroys evidence, cleans the shack of his equipment, and rows out sea to dump the remains. while adrift, he becomes afraid and imagines dying.
- Narrates how the magistrate becomes sympathetic to victor and decides to visit him. he tells victor that someone has come to see him- his father.
- Narrates how victor stays with his father until the court finds him innocent, due to circumstantial evidence. while en route home, victor receives a letter in paris from elizabeth wondering if he loves someone else.
- Analyzes how victor and alphonse return home to geneva and focus on his wedding. they leave for the family cottage for their honeymoon.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mary shelley, the writer of frankenstein, connects loneliness to the character of victor, and shows how it affects the surroundings and the characters.
- Analyzes how victor's isolation had an impact on him since the initial stage of his life, as his acquaintanceship was limited to elizabeth and henry clerval.
- Analyzes how victor chose to leave home and continue his education in university after his mother's death. he did not return to geneva to visit his family, or write back.
- Analyzes how victor avoided all his surroundings and started to create life. he did not understand the consequences and events that would follow the creation.
- Analyzes how victor, due to his isolation, becomes highly self-absorbed and loses compassion.
- Analyzes how victor's decision to leave geneva was one where all his voluntary though was swallowed up and lost. he was calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been his portion.
- Analyzes how victor leaves to the sea and dies as a lonely and bitter person.
- Concludes that loneliness played a major role in victor frankenstein's life.
828 wordsRead More - Mary Shelley’s novel Frankensteinanalytical essayMary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, is a book in which men pursue their goals against hopeless odds. Robert Walton’s decision to turn the ship around at the end of the novel is questioned by many. This essay will discuss the interpreted views on Robert Walton’s decision to retreat by Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and myself. Although, some may disagree ultimately Robert Walton made the right choice to turn his ship around at the end of the novel and is therefore not a failure.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mary shelley's novel frankenstein, in which men pursue their goals against hopeless odds, is questioned by many. robert walton made the right choice to turn the ship around at the end of the novel.
- Analyzes how victor frankenstein, the creator of the monster, pushes the boundary of science and creates a monster. his anguish for the loss of his family facilitates his plan for revenge.
- Analyzes how mary shelley constructs lessons to be learned through the mistakes of her characters. robert walton has not yet met victor frankenstein while exploring the north pole.
- Analyzes how their opinion on whether robert walton made the correct decision to turn the ship around is developed by putting their feet into the monster's shoes.
- Opines that robert walton made the right decision to turn the ship around and for that choice he is not a failure.
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