Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein was written in the 18th century by the romantic writer

called Mary Shelley. The key events in this novel symbolize Mary

Shelley's problems in real life, in one way or another.

The novel starts with a man called Walton, who is venturing to the

North Pole. On his way, he is shipwrecked and he comes across Victor

Frankenstein, who is the protagonist in the book. Victor relives his

story to Walton about what he did, which emphasizes the "story within

a story" narrative.

Frankenstein tells us about the tragic loss of his mother, which was

the main issue that motivated him to give life. We also learn about

the love of his life, whom is Elizabeth which he later finds out to be

his half-sister.

We pick up from the novel that he is inspired to create the monster

although he did not have his fathers support or approval. This, in a

way, motivated Frankenstein even more to create the monster, as well

as trying to figure out how to bring his mother back. The monster is

created but to Frankenstein's shock, he turned out to be his worst

nightmare and the monster was inevitably rejected.

We learn also of the monster's history and story on how he had

survived the years and years of torment since his rejection by

Frankenstein. The monster, after learning to speak English, decides to

return to Frankenstein and demand from him a female version of him so

that he can live in peace. Frankenstein begins the creation of this

female, but soon comes to his senses and destroys it. The monster

vowed to be with him on his wedding night, and Frankenstein

misinterpreted him and thought that he would kill him b...

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... it can also start a new form of transgression, that could relegate

society. Another reason why Mary Shelley used a warning because both

Frankenstein and Walton had almost the same occupation, that would

require finding new things along the way, or discovering new ways of

doing things such as exploring or scientific breakthroughs. The

significance of Captain Walton's decision to turn home was it gave the

creature the sense of belonging. When Frankenstein died, the creature

knew that he had no more purpose in living anymore, so he decided to

stay with him and die, and Captain Walton instead of saving him knew

what he had to do and decided that for the best, he should leave him

there. He also did it out of respect because he knew that a child

would want to die next to their parents so he left him be with

Frankenstein.