In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the young doctor Victor Frankenstein, creates a monster through the use of dead human body parts and electricity. The monster comes to life before the doctor's very eyes and scares the doctor to death, leading him to flee his laboratory and the monster. Frankenstein later comes to realize that his creation will ruin his life forever. Although the monster was left to survive on his own, he not only learned to feed himself, read and write but also to speak without a heavy accent. The monster seeks revenge after being neglected by his creator, who left him blind to the harshness of survival. Also, for not granting him his only wish, which was to have a mate whom could love him and be loved by him. Enraged by the doctor's refusal, the monster kills Frankenstein's brother, his best friend, and finally his wife. Frankenstein devotes his life to try to kill the monster before dying himself.
Frankenstein has both good and bad as
pects, which make the book an interesting work of literature. The fact that the close minded monster could educate himself in such a manner that a blind man couldn't tell the difference between the monster's speech and voice than that of an ordinary human being is quite unbelievable. On the other hand, many find the author's use of imagination and her choice of words to be quite interesting. The fact that the writer is a female and not a male surprises her readers and leave's them greatly astonished. The ability to draw the characters with such vividness and striking originality also show's the creative mind of the author.
Although the book has its faults, the author still demonstrates an excellent show of imagination, " ...it possess a power of fascination, something of the same mastery in harsh and savage delineation's of passion, relieved in like manner by the gentler features of domestic and simple feelings."(The Edinburgh Magazine250) According to
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