Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a novel, which explores many of the characteristics of gothic romanticism. Dreary gothic settings, a focus on the supernatural, love, and nature, are all key elements of this novel. It also delves into the topic of the human emotion, bringing the reader to a closer understanding of each character. Shelley often relates the depression or burdens of the characters so well that the reader feels pity for them. As I read this novel, I was compelled to empathize with each of the major characters.
Robert Walton is the first character in the novel for, whom I felt I could relate to sympathetically. Through his letters to his sister in the beginning of the novel, Shelley illustrates his feelings of loneliness. Robert writes of his desire for companionshi
Victor is an even more complex character than the other two, offering even more motives for the reader's sensitivity to him. His anguishes are always brought about by his own creation, which plagues him so arduously, that his mental and physical health is impacted severely. After the "monster" murders his wife, Shelley demonstrates Victor's sorrows, "Could I behold this, and live? Alas! Life is obstinate, and clings closest where it is most hated" (Pg. 144). This is Shelley's paramount of her generation empathetic emotions in the reader. At this point in the novel, Victor has lost nearly all that he cares for. Not even Adolph Hitler himself could pretend to feel no emotion for Victor after this.
Shelley's story is one that seizes upon the reader's emotions, drawing tremendous e
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