I didn’t want them to know. I had a bookshelf in my room glaring at me. I walked over to it and began taking all the books down. I threw them under my bed. I never wanted to see them again.Soon my daddy came home.
Theresa James English 121 Professor Jesse Stommel Frankenstein Is a Gothic Novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851), a classic occult fiction, was first published in London in 1818 in three volumes. It tells a story of how Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates an artificial man out of fragments of bodies from churchyards, and dissecting rooms – a human form without a soul. The monster longs for love and sympathy but inspires only horror and loathing and becomes a powerful force for evil. It seeks revenge against its creator, murdering his family and friends, also, and bringing death to Victor himself. In the most important aspects of Frankenstein; Frankenstein is compelling in and of itself.
He tells him ‘do your duty towards me and I will do mine towards you,’ and if Frankenstein refused, he threatened him by saying he would ‘glut the maw of death’. This shows how the Creature’s abandonment and lack of nurture leads him to become a murderer. Further proof of this is when, during the Creature’s tale he tell Frankenstein ‘I could not conceive how one man could go fourth and murder his fellow’ showing that he was ‘benevolent and good’ and had Frankenstein full filled his duty he may have remained so. The Creature admits to Frankenstein ‘misery made me a fiend’ implying that Frankenstein’s actions, or lack of action, lead to this misery. Primarily it is not Frankenstein who has to suffer the consequences of his creating life, it is the Creature.
Of course not, the information of that wretched monster is already too much for me to bare but for a simple psychologist to learn of what went on, well… that would be absolutely devastating to his mind. But of course other men should be told of my creation, and what I did that night… Oh yes how I remember it so clearly… that horrible face with those eyes… oh those disgusting yellow eyes, when they opened it was like the devil himself started staring into my soul. Of course I do remember that I was excited by my work, but prior to its creation I was too ignorant and fool hearted to comprehend the pain and destruction I would be bringing upon this earth. I know now that had I just stopped before I succeeded I wouldn’t be sitting here trembling, grasping for a breath of knowledge that would help me understand a method in which I could undo that being from this earth. And of course no man will be able to stop it; it was obvious that by creating this monster I had given the gift of strength, strength far greater than that of any ordinary man.
At first, Victor sees the creature as an amazing breakthrough created by defiance nature, but soon after the creature’s creation, he realizes how truly awful the creature is and rejects him. Victor is in bed asleep, and suddenly wakes to see “the wretch the miserable monster”(Shelley 56) he had created. The creature opens its mouth as if to say something, but only sounds, not accurate words, come out. Frightened Victor escapes from the creature, before it can detain him with the filial grasp of a child towards its parents, and runs down the stairs still horrified by the creature. After escaping from the creature and learning the mischief the creature got into, Victor begins to realize how he must take responsibility for the creature, like a child takes responsibility for his/her puppy.
He never locked the door before this very night so I knew immediately that something terrible must have happened to my master. I beat on the door repetitively and begin to call him “Dr. Jekyll,” I cried, “Dr. Jekyll are you in there sir?” After a good length of time had pasted I began to think I may have to resort to more desperate measures. The door swings open with a great force and Dr. Jekyll is standing before me drenched in sweat, with a puzzled look on his face.
It is evident when he states, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been quality of a crime” (Frankenstein 34). Victor had become obsessed because he was growing apart from the world and put all his energy into his monster. In the same manner, Macbeth’s ambition also became obsessive. In the beginning Macbeth had no plan to betray King Duncan and to take over the throne. However, all this changed when the three witches planted the seed of betrayal in him and when Lady Macbeth encouraged him to kill King Duncan and become king.
Gregor's search for his identity seems hopeless, but, because he never had an identity to start with. He finds his humanity only at the end, when his sister's playing of her violin reminds him of his love for his family. What we don’t realize is in that someway everyone is alienated. Gregor does not truly see reality exposed after his metamorphosis, he gradually dies from his family’s neglect and from his own depression; life would go on but, not for him. When Gregor wakes up from his Metamorphosis, he acted as if nothing had happened.
Reid 2 I didn’t want to see or talk to anybody. My Dad’s death still didn’t feel real to me and it hadn’t sunken into my brain that he’s gone and he’s never coming back. I remember listening to one of my Dad’s co-worker telling me that he had a
I didn’t care about anyone or anything; all I cared about was hanging out with my friends and having fun. I ran away because I thought my family was controlling, but in reality they were just protecting me. They just wanted for me to stay home and go to school but that was to “hard” for me to handle. I stayed with people I barely knew, that were in the same position I was. They didn’t care what happened to me or even themselves.