His father was a fireman and, according to Dave, his mother was originally a loving, kind and wonderful person. Her attitude changed all of a sudden. The worst part was Dave was the only one being abused, not including his other siblings. He writes about his struggle to stay alive in a home where he is treated like a slave and an animal. The book begins with the people at Dave's school finally report Dave and his condition to the authorities.
Gothic horror was a common genre of use in the time Frankenstein was written. This was a time of great novels such as Dracula and Hound of the Baskervilles. Gothic horror is traditionally set in dark castles and countryside with eerie moaning music and bad weather Written in 1818 Frankenstein is the deeply disturbing tale of a monstrous unnamed creation that was created in the name of science. Huge and strong, the creature created by Victor Frankenstein kills and murders many throughout the tale, but considering his tragic beginnings I must ask, who is the real monster in this gothic tale of horror? Frankenstein is cleverly written in two parts.
You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa." (Shelley 127) When the creature approaches William he screams and runs away in terror. This makes the monster feel very alone and he becomes enraged and eventually ends up strangling William to death. He then takes a picture of Caroline Frankenstein that the boy has been holding and places it in the folds of the dress of a girl sleeping in a barn—Justine Moritz, who is later executed for William’s murder.
Mary Shelley uses many language devices to portray conflict in the novel Frankenstein. In chapter 5, Mary Shelley uses alliteration to convey to the reader the emotional conflict the monster is forced to face. Victor finally finishes his creation and observes its appearance: “I beheld the wretch -- the miserable monster who I created”. This suggests to the reader that Victor is not pleased with his creation as he calls him a “monster”; the word “monster” makes the reader visualize a horrendous, spine-chilling, eerie creation creating a dark ambience. Furthermore, the author uses feelings to describe the monster.
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.
All of these characters shared one thing in common; they were protagonists of their respective stories. But this statement was not true in Frankenstein. It was the antagonist that deserved sympathy. The monster’s pitiless and cruel treatments from others aroused our sympathy, rather than his creator; Victor Frankenstein’s suffering, for he suffered more discrimination and lack
Carl is often shifted to his Auntie Beryl’s house which she doesn’t treat him with respect or kindness. “Who would love you if your own mother doesn’t?” Therefore Carl has a very low self-esteem and he feels very abandoned and lonely. He also feels that his mother did not love him and that he is in her way of doing what she wants to do. He is a very sad, lonely and confused fifteen year old teenager. Slowly we see Carl standing up for himself and his brother Harley.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the movie Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton, the creature and Edward are unable to evolve into ordinary members of society due to the effects of long periods of isolation. The isolation that both Edward and the creature in Frankenstein experience from being separated by their creators leaves them ignorant when trying to follow the rules of society. In the novel Frankenstein, the creature is abandoned by Victor Frankenstein at the very moment of his creation, and he is forced to discover the frightening reality of the world all by himself. Because he had no guidance, the creature was unable to successfully adapt to the regulations of society. On the other hand, in the movie, Edward’s creator died before he was finished being created, forcing him to live in his creator’s home in isolation for many years before being discovered.
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.
I believe that when Heathcliff first joins the Earnshaw family, he is immediately positioned as an outsider through the fact that he does not look like the others. The fact that he is described a ‘gypsy brat’ from the outset suggests that he is a victim of a certain amount of prejudice as soon as he arrives at Wuthering Heights. Found in the ‘streets of Liverpool’, he is given the name of a dead child and does not have a clear identity within the Earnshaw household. Despite Mr Earnshaw’s desire to have him become a proper member of the family, he never really fits in. Both Hindley and the Lintons treat him as an unwanted interloper and this obviously affects Heathcliff’s behaviour and attitudes within the novel.