Victor has not only treated the monster with heartless emotions but has repudiated Frankenstein, this helps express your sorrow. “I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster whom I had created.” Not only does it show Victors distaste but his abandonment towards the monster, which attract pity towards Frankenstein. The way Mary Shelley uses the term “monster” to address Frankenstein only adds to the feeling of neglect created by Mary Shelley. At the beginning of chapter 5 she describe the creation of Frankenstein, the way Victor discarded Frankenstein as if only a mere tool makes the reader feel a throbbing pain. The reaction of Victor changes the role between him and Frankenstein, making Victor the monster.
Roajhaan Sakaki Mrs. de Rubertis H English 12B 12 February 2014 The Feministic Frankenstein Gothic literature is meant to stimulate the body’s senses and to introduce the idea of the super natural. In Mary Shelley’s, story Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein tries to recreate life by creating a hideous monster from the remains of dead people. After being appalled by his creation, Victor abandoned his monster, and left him to survive on his own. Shelley purposely creates a world where the female roles and powers have been usurped by men, in order, to show that a world dominated by males who usurped the female roles, out of fear, would collapse and become chaotic. Shelley portrays how easily this male dominated world would collapse, to prove the importance of a female’s presence in life.
Victor and the monster in Mary K. Shelly's Frankenstein are both dealing with this sort of half demon, half human internal battle, while heartache surrounds them. This twisted Gothic tale explores the relationship between creator and creation, and the universal need for love and acceptance from one's parents and society. Victor acts basically for his own interest and wants to see his name glorified by humanity. To achieve this goal, he makes extensive use of his knowledge of natural philosophy and Chemistry. He even foreshadows his own fate by saying “Natural philosophy is the genius that regulated my fate” (Shelly, 46).
Throughout the novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley defines morality based on a nature and nurture of ones and it plays relevant role on a person life. Shelley explains sometimes a mankind’s morality can be bad and she mentions it through her the characters Victor Frankenstein, the creature and Robert Walden. Frankenstein’s great desire of creating life endanger his family and goes against nature, his careless disregard for a naïve creature turns it into vicious exterminator and Walden’s unachievable fantasy of finding north pole put his crew in deadly
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was released in England during the Victorian era. During this time very strict gender roles were observed, whereby the purpose of a woman was to love, honour and obey her husband and most importantly keep her body secret and pure. Therefore the idea of women having a sexual identity was seen as absurd and disgraceful. Good morning Mrs. Anderson and fellow classmates, my hypothesis for this oral will be “Dracula is a classic piece of literature that transcends its era of creation by incorporating the character of the vampire as a means of discussing the sexual, that still fascinates a contemporary audience and has experienced several resurgences into popular culture”. In order to discuss this Twilight will be compared with Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Gothic Texts such as the film Edward Scissor hands and the novel Frankenstein are some examples that explores the inner psyche of the characters minds, maximising suspense and fear through the use of a physically-disabled protagonist whose ultimate fate and violence are a result of the corrupted modern-society. In both texts, the eponymous protagonist-Edward and the monster are created unnaturally by a “father” thus this notion of man playing god is present. Because of this abnormity, both characters are physically-disabled with Edward having scissors as hands and the monster being completely hideous which is evident through the lexical chain of gruesome descriptions “his skin lustrous black..yellow skin..watery eyes…shrivelled complexion..”. This physical unusualness is what makes them initially seem like the monster in the normal society. However, both Burton and Shelley elicit this sympathetic response from the audience because both Edward and especially the monster are so misunderstood.
She was obsessed with immortality and youth. Another trait that Stoker brought into his novel. As far as fiction goes, Dracula is by far one of the darkest most horrific tales, yet, very entertaining. To know that the character alone is based off of some of the cruelest people in world history still to this day astounds me. However, what is interesting is how vampires have gone from being hated and feared dark monsters of the night to the romanticized creatures of young girl's dreams.
Texts reflect the social, economic and historical contexts of which the author compose their work in. Both Mary Shelley’s 19th century gothic novel “Frankenstein” and the science fiction film “Blade Runner” directed by Ridley Scott propose similar concepts even though their work were compose during different era. As a Romanticist, Shelley put down the idea of man playing ‘God’, Scott’s responds to Shelley warning is also condemn man’s thoughtless ambition. However the context of greed and mass industrialisation shifts the criticism onto the pursuit of commercial dominance. Both texts have used many language techniques and features to describe similar dystopian visions result from man’s abandonment of nature.
Then you have Lucy on the other hand she starts as the example of a Victorian women. Until she becomes a Vampire then she becomes the exact opposite of a proper women. And with the Victorian idea of women Lucy's Fiancee and friends were very repulsed with how she was acting when she was dead they thought it was absolutely appalling. Now in the 1992 Bram Stokers, Dracula Lucy is the exact opposite of a proper women in Victorian era even before she becomes a Vampire. She is loud, she touches men gets close to them, and she draws attention to herself.
The uses of excessive description and hyperbole in Catherine’s language (especially during chapters 23, 24 and 25) can show in some ways that Northanger Abbey is very much celebratory of the gothic genre. Catherine’s strange change of tone occurs from chapter 23, whereby she is given a grand tour of the Abbey and becomes fascinated and engrossed with the General, extrapolating that he may have something direct to do with his wife’s death. It’s interesting to note the shift in descriptive dialogue in this chapter, akin to gothic novels such as “The Castle of Otranto” for its fanciful and shadowy narration of the castle and of the other protagonists and their actions. She describes the general as having “solitary rambles” which, at least to Catherine, “did not speak a mind at ease, or a conscience void of reproach”, seemingly using fanciful descriptions to infer something which simply isn’t there; “void of reproach” sounds very menacing and malevolent, something Austen has done deliberately to highlight the melodrama a gothic tale and description can cause. Catherine furthers her claim of the general,