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Frankenstein is a story written by Mary Shelley in 1818. She wrote it when she was 17. Her pregnancy inspired her to write it because she was worried what her baby would be like. Shelly promotes her romantic ideals in the story because she loved nature and God.

This novel was written during romantic times and because Mary Shelley was a romantic writer, and was in favour of nature and God. She makes references to nature and God e.g. life, sky, etc, to promote her romantic ideals. Although the monster is hideous it is still Shelley’s hero.

Chapter 4 becomes extremely preoccupied with Victor’s obsession with galvanism; a belief which is thought to be that you can ‘infuse life, into inanimate body’. In this chapter the monster is made using a dead body and victor puts electricity in it. His ‘wonder and hope’ leads to his failure.

Chapter 5 reveals why Shelley had called her novel the ‘modern Prometheus’. According to Greek mythology Prometheus stole Zeus’s fire from the god’s to give man power so they use their ability to make weapons and tools, so like Frankenstein Prometheus was greedy for knowledge and power too. Then after that Prometheus got punished by god; it’s the same here because Frankenstein was also punished by his creation. Victor can indeed be seen as Prometheus because he doesn’t listen to what god said.

Chapter 5 introduces the monster which is created by Victor Frankenstein. In chapter 5 the birth of the “hideous fiend” is the sign that his life will change in a bad way. The monster’s ‘black lips and yellow skin’ ‘ugly’, so he rejects it.

The weather is important as it informs us of the emotions and the mood of the characters and surroundings. Dull and dark weather reflects the dismal mood of the novel, the; ‘dreary night of November’. This is known as pathetic fallacy. The ‘chilly night and the black comfortless sky’ connote that something utterly dreadful may occur.
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