Halberstam infers to keep an open mind to what really is the object of terror (28). She advises that monsters are a figment of our imaginations, the fact that Frankenstein’s monster fits the perfect description to what a human would picture as monstrous (31). Society has created monsters based upon it’s own prejudices and experiences in mortality, gender, sex and even social class: “His humanness depends as much upon his status as male bourgeois and white as the monsters monstrosity depends upon his yellow skin, his gargantuan size, his massive shape and his unstable gender”(32). Halberstam
I will analyze the author's title and expain the relationship between the title and the novel. I will also discuss the effect of the title on the reader. -The name "Frankenstein" is often used to refer to the monster itself. Frankenstein is a well established title because it gives a hint of the theme. In the novel, the monster is identified by words such as "creature," "monster", "fiend", "wretch", "vile insect","being", and "it", but speaking to Dr. Frankenstein, the monster refers to himself as "the Adam of your labors", and elsewhere as someone who "would have" been "your Adam", but is instead your "fallen angel."
He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil. The author shows this with the quote “with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony”, again this really brings out the gothic image using pain and suffering to make sure the reader realises the full extent of the horror that Frankenstein has unleashed on the quite country around him. When the creature is finally brought to life Frankenstein’s
Cody Cunningham Novlan English IV – 1 February 17, 2015 Bonds of Creator and Creation Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the story of a science apprentice that becomes possessed with creating a new life from stolen body parts only to withdraw in disgust at the monster’s unsightliness. The faultless monster, plagued by isolation and abandonment turns to destructive and harmful attacks against his creator, Victor Frankenstein. Who should be more responsible, a creator or his creation? Some may say the creator is accountable for what he designs. Others may say the creation has an ultimate duty to his maker.
The use of the Monster as the main internal conflict of Victor Frankenstein demonstrates the concern of the corruption of the creature. Victor feels guilty and feels like he is responsible for the killings that the Monster is committing. Victor also feels fear towards the Monster because of his constant pursuit of revenge against him. Victor’s emotional state of stress eventually leads to his intense state of confusion and also leads to his obsession over the death of the evil being that he himself had created. Victor’s plans for his creation were more than great, but once he had actually created the Monster, all of his past feelings turned into disgust and horror.
Ridley Scott expresses this in Blade Runner through use of a variety of film techniques, sound imagery and events at the time which relate to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Directly influenced by events around the world, Mary Shelley and Ridley Scott demonstrate the consequences of abusing scientific advancement and the degradation of human values. In chapter 26 of Blade Runner the meeting between Roy and his creator resembles some similarities of that of chapter 5 in Frankenstein as these are chapters which both creators abandon their creations, demonstrating the degradation of human values. Ridley Scott opens this scene with a panoramic shot on the Tyrell Corporation's Head Quarters which manifests to the audience the extremity of Tyrell's power. Roy and Sebastian are rising to the top in an elevator, a symbol of elevation and entry into heaven.
The natural environment has survived but the people are deeply perturbed by the monster. “ The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval and lastly of my wife” The use of the words, ‘death’, ‘excecution’ and ‘murder’ deepen the severity of the situation. The creation of the monster has led not only to destruction but to ending of many lives. Even though they were not killed by the monster, many were still greatly affected. Concurrently “Blade Runner” and “Frankenstein” present the audience with two differing worldspaces that both function as harbingers of admonition for the values of their time.
So, Victor Frankenstein was guilty as he created the creature, and left him alone. Victor caused Frankenstein’s monstrous appearance and his appearance resulted in misunderstandings about the creature. The main point is that the guilty one of these misunderstandings, the creature’s appearance and his exclusion from society was Victor Frankenstein, the creator. Particularly by focusing on the given passages 15, 16, and19, I will try to show how far away Victor is from humanity. Before Frankenstein creates the creature, Frankenstein goes graveyards to collect dead body parts with an aim to accomplish his ambition.
Upon seeing the creature in years, Victor is completely filled with hatred and angst. Contrast to a normal reaction to a lost “son,” Victor shows tremendous hate and fear towards the creature, “‘Devil...Begone, vile insect!”(81) These few words express the bottled up emotions Frankenstein has had deep within, and finally is able to express upon seeing the creature. However, this emotion from Frankenstein only adds more depth to the creatures response. The creature knows Frankensteins hate towards him, but during the confrontation the creature is able to vent and show his human tendencies. “[Y]ou, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”(81) Although Frankenstein hates the creature, there is no denying the bond they share.
But when he creates the monster, he is uncaring and horrified at it, this contrasts to what the reader has see before this event, Frankenstein was a loving family man who had and gave deep respect. Mary Shelley uses pathetic fallacy for climatic event, an example of this is when Victor Frankenstein created the monster. "It was on the dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. Because of this constant use of pathetic fallacy, the reader can see when things are about to go wrong, like when the de Lacey's rejected The monster or when Elizabeth got killed, these events occurred in winter and stormy conditions. Winter is a time of destruction and is also when the monster got created and most of Victor Frankenstein's family got killed.