Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
analytical Essay
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Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is a Gothic novel that contains two genres, science fiction and Gothicism. The novel is a first person narrative that uses a framing technique, where a story is told within a story. Shelley gives the book a distinctive gothic mood tone by the use of her chosen setting which is dark and gloomy, by doing this it reflects the hideousness of the creature; the point of views helps towards the realism of the novel; and characterization able the reader to interact with the characters and feel sympathy or hatred towards each one. To entice the readers into her suspenseful novel Shelley uses foreshadowing. The narrative structure shows a wide range of perspectives rather than just one, by doing this it provides the reader with greater insight of the characters personalities. Symbolism and imagery evokes the readers’ emotions where sympathy is concerned. Shelley has entwined these techniques to produce a novel where the readers’ sympathy jumps from character to character and moral judgements are made due to the characters actions.
The weather is also important in the novel as it adds to the atmosphere. For instance on a ‘dreary night of November’ (p38 Frankenstein) the creature is born and during ‘a heavy storm of rain’ where the wind ‘rose with great violence’ (p164 Frankenstein) Elizabeth is murdered. The connection between the two is that the reader can sense when something bad/traumatic is going to happen due to the weather alone. However doom and gloomy weather does not fill the entire novel. When Spring is present the creature feels ‘emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within [him]. Half...
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...ses the readers emotions through figurative language for example the tone of the creatures narrative is very sullen, therefore when those sections are read we feel his sadness and understand the suffering he has went through which causes us to sympathise with him. Gothic and realistic techniques give the sense of realism. The combination of all of the above techniques used to write Frankenstein has produced a novel that evokes our moral judgements and sympathy.
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Oxford 1998
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mary shelley's novel frankenstein is a gothic novel that contains two genres, science fiction and gothicism. she uses foreshadowing to entice readers into her suspenseful novel.
- Analyzes how the weather adds to the atmosphere in frankenstein. doom and gloomy weather do not fill the entire novel.
- Analyzes how walton discusses his adventures to his sister, margaret, through letters. the epistolary style adds realism to the story as it provides different viewpoints and multiple narratives.
- Analyzes how walton's second letter shows the reader his sense of loss and loneliness, as he has no friends aboard the vessel.
- Analyzes how in chapter 5, frankenstein narrates and we see the world through his eyes. we are enticed to feel sympathy towards the creature as he had worked hard for several years on his creation.
- Analyzes how readers' sympathy jumps from character to character, even those who don't play a major role in the novel. caroline overcomes her father's death by adopting elizabeth and justine.
- Analyzes how the reader sympathizes with justine as she was wrongly accused of murdering william and sentenced to death. frankenstein could have saved her life, but decided against it.
- Analyzes how victor's harsh words are uncalled for as he is classed as his father, yet rejects him the moment the creature takes his first breath.
- Analyzes how the creature tries to gain acceptance when he comes across the de lacy family. he hides outside and watches the family, and learns to speak and read.
- Analyzes how the creature's loneliness plays an important part of the readers' sympathetic views. he produces a strong argument here.
- Analyzes how frankenstein's imagery makes the reader feel his pain and suffering. sympathy towards the creature is enhanced.
- Analyzes how frankenstein's murders of william, clerval and elizabeth were not done for his own pleasure, but because he denied him his right to have a father, and because of his innocence and how society wrongly treated him, the reader felt sympathy rather than hatred.
- Analyzes how even the creature's creator, frankenstein, feels sympathy towards him even though he loathes his creation.
- Analyzes how the creature longs for a female partner and asks frankenstein to create another being like himself.
- Opines that the creature deserves the readers' sympathy because he was mistreated and rejected from day one.
- Opines that the saddest part of the novel is at the very end where the creature decides that he ‘shall die, and what [he] now feel be no longer felt’.
- Analyzes how by the end of the novel the reader feels sympathy for all three main characters, as walton doesn't make it to the north pole, frankenstein fails to destroy the creature, and remains alone.
- Analyzes how shelley arouses the readers emotions through figurative language. gothic and realistic techniques give the sense of realism.
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- Analyzes how mary shelly's use of setting and weather helps to realize why the creation has preformed the horrid actions he has.
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- Concludes that a thorough description of the scenery within the story can assist in recollection, explains certain events, and uncovers the mentality of characters.
732 wordsRead More - outline on Frankensteinanalytical essayIn the Gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley integrates the rhetorical devices figurative language, imagery, and tone to impart the concept that the desire to acquire knowledge and emulate God will ultimately result in chaos and havoc that exceeds the boundaries of human restraint.
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- Analyzes how mary shelley integrates rhetorical devices figurative language, imagery, and tone to impart the concept that the desire to acquire knowledge and emulate god will ultimately result in chaos and havoc
- Analyzes how mary shelley's mother, the famed author of a vindication of the rights of woman, succumbed to puerperal fever, leaving her father, william godwin, bereft of his beloved companion.
- Analyzes how mary shelley's relationship with her stepmother was strained. the new mrs. godwin provoked her ire by encroaching upon her privacy.
- Analyzes how death revolved around mary shelley's life. her first child was born prematurely and survived for only eleven days; her second child died of malaria; the next child succumbed to dysentery after sustaining life for about a year.
- Narrates how mary shelley was denounced by her beloved father, who thought that she had been guilty of a crime. she felt insecure and dependent on her future husband for emotional support.
- Narrates how mary suffered her greatest loss in 1822, the death of percy shelley by drowning, leaving mary in a psychological turmoil, with feelings of "fierce remorse" and guilt.
- Analyzes the characteristics of romantic / gothic literature, which includes themes such as imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and intuition over science.
- Explains that this literature emphasizes a new flexibility of form adapted to varying content, encourages the development of complex and fast-moving plots, and allows mixed genres and freer style.
- Opines that classical conventions, such as time, place, and action, were no longer tolerated.
- Narrates how they turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of their elizabeth. their prophetic soul was torn by remorse, horror, and despair.
- Analyzes how frankenstein's lack of foresight has caused the deaths of william and justine, and grief among his father and elizabeth. this quote serves as an example of irony.
- Narrates how they were possessed by a maddening rage when they thought of the monster they created, the miserable daemon they had sent abroad for their destruction.
- Analyzes how the quote bolsters the irony that the monster's actions prognosticated frankenstein’s ire and spurred him to wreak revenge.
- Explains that philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have performed miracles.
- Analyzes how m. waldman's speech appeals to frankenstein’s desire to acquire knowledge.
- Narrates how they felt as if their soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the keys were touched which formed the mechanism of their being.
- Analyzes how frankenstein eloquently describes the overwhelming desire to explore the mysteries of knowledge. he uses parallelism to underscore his unwavering goal to discover the secrets of creation.
- Opines that the tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fang of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.
- Analyzes how frankenstein feels utter remorse when he is aware that justine will not be spared.
- Narrates how they were imbued with high hopes and lofty ambitions, but how are they sunk?
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- Narrates how they discovered the cause of generation and life after days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, and became themselves capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
- Analyzes how the tone expressed in this quote is one of ecstasy and joy. frankenstein feels happy that he has been granted the secret of creation of life.
- Narrates how their cheeks had grown pale with study and their person had become emaciated with confinement. sometimes, on the brink of certainty, they failed; yet still clung to the hope which the next day
- Analyzes how frankenstein displays an indomitable will to pursue his study and attain his objective despite his degrading health.
- Narrates how a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged them forward; they seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
- Analyzes how frankenstein's persistent tone in this example serves to stress the fact that he was filled with only one purpose — to discover the secret of creation.
- Analyzes how the quote signifies an event that served to drive frankenstein to thirst for knowledge.
- Describes how they collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.
- Analyzes how frankenstein describes the setting of his work, which is described as resembling that of a mad scientist’s laboratory, and touches upon the concept of immoral ethics.
- Analyzes how the statement conveys to the reader that frankenstein had a slight feeling of egotism — he believes that no other child has ever passed.
- Analyzes how the theme "nature vs nurture" plays a minor role regarding the concept that the acquirement of knowledge leads to chaos.
- Analyzes how the theme "lack of responsibility" plays a role in the concept that the acquirement of knowledge results in grief and chaos.
- Analyzes the thesis that the desire to obtain knowledge will lead to chaos and grief if it becomes too overreaching.
- Analyzes how victor's overreaching is an attempt to create new life. he fails to recognize the necessary secular-scientific myth of entropy.
- Explains that levine agrees with the concept that knowledge can threaten the balance in the system of the earth if it becomes too overreaching.
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- Describes mellor, anne k. mary shelley's life, fiction, and monsters.
- Analyzes how mary shelley's frankenstein is a multifaceted symbol for humanity’s fears, such as the fear of science and its role in relation to god.
- Analyzes how mary was influenced in her creation of frankenstein by ovid and milton. the monster compares himself to milton's character of the devil.
- Analyzes how shelley's monster, paradise lost, is a reflection of her own personal demons, and has changed the face of literature.
1179 wordsRead More - The Clever Use of Diction in Mary Shelly's Frankensteinanalytical essayFrankenstein is the story of an eccentric scientist whose masterful creation, a monster composed of sown together appendages of dead bodies, escapes and is now loose in the country. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelly’s diction enhances fear-provoking imagery in order to induce apprehension and suspense on the reader. Throughout this horrifying account, the reader is almost ‘told’ how to feel – generally a feeling of uneasiness or fright. The author’s diction makes the images throughout the story more vivid and dramatic, so dramatic that it can almost make you shudder.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mary shelly's diction enhances fear-provoking imagery in frankenstein to induce apprehension and suspense on the reader.
- Analyzes mary shelley's use of diction to provoke fear in chapter iv. she uses words such as "wretch", "yellow skin," "horrid" and "shriveled" to describe the monster, making our stomachs churn.
- Analyzes how mary shelley carefully picked which words to use when describing a certain object, place, or situation.
- Analyzes how uses words that would make us sick to our stomachs in order to get a really good idea about how disgusting this now-animate creature was.
- Analyzes how mary shelley is a master at selecting the right words to provoke the desired reaction upon us.
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1505 wordsRead More - "Frankenstein": The Modern Prometheus, Boldly Creativeanalytical essayAs one of the first gothic novels Frankenstein explores the darker side of human nature, ambitions, and the human mind.
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- Narrates victor's story of how he came to know elizabeth, became interested in natural philosophy, and died from yellow fever. after his mother died, victor went to inglestadt to study natural philosophy at the university.
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- Explains the meaning of gothic in mary shelley's frankenstein. they will discuss what constitutes ‘gothic’ in the novel.
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- Analyzes how mary shelley began writing "frankenstein" with the intent of writing a story that frightens its readers. the novel incorporates both romantic and gothic elements.
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- Analyzes how shelley incorporates romantic elements in her characters. the main character, victor frankenstein, is on a romantic quest to form the perfect human.
- Analyzes how shelley has crafted victor frankenstein into a fascinating character. the unexplored field of science, bringing the dead back to life, is unknown to readers.
- Analyzes how victor describes elizabeth as faultless in the novel. she is the cousin, adopted sister, and eventually wife of victor frankenstein.
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- Analyzes how shelley creates a gothic atmosphere of mystery and suspense in her novel.
- Analyzes how shelley incorporates the romantic's emphasis on the glory and beauty of nature in her novel.
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