frANKENSTEIN

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Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein in a time of wonder. A main wonder was whether you could put life back into the dead. Close to the topic of bringing life back into the dead was whether you could create your own being, like selective breeding but a bit more powerful.

Close to where Mary lived there was a man named Vultair was experimenting putting electricity through Frogs to see if they could come back to life. With that going on close to her as well as the fear of a revolution and the pressure on her to think of a ghost story it is not surprising she thought of a horror story that would still be popular in the 21st Century.

Now I have explained where the story came from and why it is as it is I will explain the social responsibility it brings up and how it is still important today. Looking after something you create is one point it brings up. Frankenstein created his creature so he should have looked after it but instead just because he didn't like the way it looked he ran away. He never taught his creature anything so, for all the creature knew, it could have been okay to kill people. That relates to today as some children who were not taught right from wrong by their parents watch films like Scream and I know what y

An individual's responsibility for their deeds to society is another point made. Frankenstein knows it was his creature that killed William and he didn't say anything, which led to the death of Justine who was accused of the murder. If Frankenstein had said " it was not Justine who killed William but it was a creature I made which I don't know where it is" there would have been a big operation to find Frankenstein's creature, which would stop the creature from killing anybody and Justine would have been saved. That links to today, if somebody made a child break into a house and the child was caught by the police, the child would be arrested and everyone would think that they were bad. But, if the person who had asked the child to break into the house came along then the child would not get in any trouble. It is the same kind of thing for people who create a diversion while somebody else breaks into a house.

Teaching a child right from wrong is another point it brings up but I feel I have covered this point in the section above.

The Final point Frankenstein brings up is that you have to look after your child or creature however it may look. Frankenstein just runs away from his creature because it is big and ugly (he designed it!). He should have stayed with it and taught it things, but he didn't. That links to today as some parents, throw their children away just because they are ugly. That is cruel to the child, it shouldn't matter what someone looks like and how they smell but, whether they are healthy and how their personality and attitude is.

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Approximate Word count = 1082
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels