The monster starts to recount the story of his life once they are inside. In this chapter, it is shown that Frankenstein still feels guilty about the murder of his brother, and the execution of Justine. It is shown that he is deeply flawed, and feels isolated. The monster is shown to be more human in this chapter, as he engages in conversation with Victor, and portrays some form of emotion. He states that he was a virtuous and worthy creature until the disdain and ignorance of humans made
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.
Through the actions committed in the play, Victor Frankenstein becomes one of the most monstrous characters in the story. The first steps to becoming a monster take place in the very beginning of the story, and Victor complete isolates himself from society and alienates his family. Victor does this more than once in the novel, once when creating the first creature then again when attempting to create
It is Frankenstein’s responsibility to teach the monster and see it as a friend. It’s because Frankenstein rejects his creature that causes it to become evil. “Oh No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing suck as even Dante could not have conceived.”(pg.49) Each time the monster killed it was a consequence of Victor’s actions.
In Shelley’s Frankenstein theme of secrecy is shown through Victor’s entire obsession with creating life, his obsession with destroying the monster, and the monster’s seclusion by its grotesque appearance. Ever since the death of Victor’s mother Caroline, he dedicated himself in discovering the anatomy of life and ways to bring inanimate humans to life. He spent two years studying anatomy and one year working on the monster. He considers M. Krempe, the natural philosopher
What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred but I was unable to solve them.” Readers may also find it easy to sympathise with The Monster as Shelley is very critical of Frankenstein. For example, in Chapter 15 when the Monster is talking about Frankenstein’s journal that documented his creation, the Monster says ““Everything is related in them which bares reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.
Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” (Shelley 108). The self-analytical and reflective words of the monster are important to chapter 13 of Frankenstein as readers are able to understand the character development of this creature. Essentially, this specific chapter is meant to display the contrast between the monster and his creator, and how he has evolved from living in the shadow of society. For instance, this passage affirms the magnitude to which the creature idealizes his highly regarded De Lacey family and all that is affiliated with them. Through his new found worship for them, he longs for their love, and most importantly, acceptance, as he says “[w]as I, then, a monster, a blot upon earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” (Shelley 108).
By: Kyle Penfound Frankenstein A layer Monologue Setting- The setting takes place in a dark and gloomy house, location unknown. Dr. Frankenstein has been captured by police just a day after he created the monster, they forced him to go see a psychologist and this is him after the psychologist. How dare they … How dare they force me to go see that doctor, it was of no benefit, it merely created more confusion and led to temporary chaos? Did they actually expect me to tell him what I know? 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.
In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Dr. Frankenstein reveals to the world a new threat. His man-like creation is seen as hideously grotesque, and he grows to despise everything about its natural form. In my research, though, I have come to see a different side of the story. The theory I chose to expound upon is that Dr. Frankenstein's creation is not born a monster, but rather a form of life with a mindset and consciousness no different than our own, shunned by a society of labels and judgment. I became interested in this subject after seeing many cases of bias and ignorance of certain cultures of our own society.
First, Frankenstein is set in a male-dominated society, where the influence of women in the family is not present very often. The dream that Victor has before the monster is created, gives the reader an idea behind Victor’s motives. When he visions Elizabeth as his dead mother lying there, it represents the weakness of compassion in women. After he has this dream, he wants create a being that could act as his child and love him like one. So Victor does just that, but after it awakes, he is filled with disgust and hates his creation because in his eyes it is ugly.