Frankenstein

A detailed Summary of Frankenstein

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, is a writer who was greatly influenced by the Romantic era in which she lived. In fact, she moved among the greatest talents of the English Romantic writers including her poet/husband Percy Shelley and their poet/friend Lord Byron. Her writing was also influenced by the other great Romantic poets Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose ideas she either directly quotes or paraphrases in Frankenstein. Since Mary Shelley was so intimate with these great talents of the Romantic movement, it is quite natural that her most famous work Frankenstein reflects many of the Romantic trends and devices. Natural and remote settings are essential aspects in Romantic writing. Many Romantics find comfort from the natural scenery and nature as a common place to release their ideas. Most of the time their settings will be located in some unusual or unknown place. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is no exception to that rule. This novel is placed in modern times to ac!

cent the application of contemporary science. One may infer that this particular story transpires in a strange environment to create a realm unknown to the readers. Victor Frankenstein creates his monster in an secluded room located at the top of his unive

life's greatest questions of knowledge, Victor has the tendency to neglect his family. He decides not to respond to any of their letters and continues to work in absolute solitude avoiding all of his fellow colleagues. As a result of his thirst for wisdom, Victor manages not to pay his family a visit in almost over two years. During this time, Victor acknowledges: " My application was at first fluctuation and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disappear in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory" (Shelley 35). Frankenstein's monster wanders in solitary as a result of being a social outcast on a quest for the acceptance of humans. The monster is presented as having a natural love and respect for his creator. This act is evident by the monster approaching his maker's bed. The monster's only wish is to be treated as a human being. Since he did not violate any laws, the monster does not beli!

eve that he should have any real reason to be rejected without reason like he was. The monster blames Frankenstein for his unreasonable rejection of himself. This rejection caused the monster sheer misery which constituted him to be a hideous creature. He wanted so much to emulate a life similar to Adam's. The monster exclaims: "Like Adam , I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect. He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature , happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone" (114). The monster's only request is that Victor redeem himself by making him happy once again. Only then can the monster be a virtuous creature instead of being all alone. He then demands Frankenstein procreate him a female with who he can show love and co!

to create the monster. Once Victor gives his last bit of advice to man , he ends

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