In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, you won’t find blue beards or closets overflowing with the dead corpses of ex-wives, but there are still many parallels to be drawn between her novel and “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault. It is very easy to draw parallels between the main character in Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the […]
In light of what we’ve been reading for the class, one of the most glaring common themes that I’ve seen is the rejection of nature itself. To me, the theme not only symbolizes the potential future of man as he tries to distance himself from what’s considered “barbaric,” but also the moral, mental, and intellectual […]
I’m not enjoying the Sci Fi in this class, thus far, as much as the Sci Fi of last semesters Contemporary: 1950s to the Present. I’ve thought this a few times already and wonder why. My first hunch after reading Mellonta Tauta today—not previously thinking much on it before—is that the authors writing these […]
Victor focuses too much on the science and function behind things and consequently misses the emotional aspects of life and gets an incomplete picture of how the world works, and it’s this that causes his downfall, as well as the doom of everyone he knows. As a child, he points out that the way […]
Victor recovers from his sickness by going home to nature, its beautiful flowers, trees and lakes. As known before, Victor was surrounded by what he knows as “perfect beauty,” his mother and Elizabeth, his “cousin.” When it came to the creature, before he was brought to life the creature was beautiful, and after it was […]
When reading this novel I have always been torn over which character I actually feel sympathy for. Certainly not for the creature who actively choose to commit murders, especially since I believe he had all the potential to be a good person. At moments in Frankenstein I feel sorry for Victor but than he does […]
Mix a fresh, established mind—a baby adult, innocent yet mature—in a pot that’s been stewing in a mix of minds lost in a fog of confused, in-group ideas and expect homeostasis. But it’s oil and water. You-know-who is arguably more educated than the rest of civilization, even compared to the real out-side-the-book world: present day. […]
Shortly after Elizabeth dies, Victor says that, “A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness: no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man” (201). This quote from Victor is why I hate him as much as I do. Does […]
Through out all of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s creation remains nameless. The creature is called a demon, monster, specter, but no proper name is ever given to him. It is easy to see why Victor Frankenstein would not name his creation; he rejects the monster almost instantly. What’s really curious is why the […]
While reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the one main idea I focused on was self-image. When reading about how the monster wanted a friend and how he reacted to Felix and Agatha’s family I can’t help but think of children who are seeking friends. He says I became this way through misery. This makes me as […]
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the two years that the monster is away from Victor create an interesting example for the argument of nature verses nurture. Once the creature receives life it almost immediately leaves Victor after he panics and yells at him. As the monster recounts his travels to Victor during the second part of […]
Victor has a habit of categorizing things and people alike into either the “good” category or the “bad” one, with little in-between. As a result, a theme that can be seen throughout Frankenstein is the destruction of what Victor considers to be good and innocent in the world.
In reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I couldn’t help but notice some similarities in Victor and the Creature’s relationship and Marvel’s Odin and Loki’s relationship. Even though the relationships are not exactly the same, there are some aspects that I thought related well and helped me connect with the characters more. Looking first at Victor and […]
Frankenstein was sent into the world resented. He was told he was the “Devil” by Victor and that he was evil. How does anyone expect a monster to be kind and nice when people resent and think of him as ugly and evil everyday from the beginning of his life. Instead of Victor being a […]
Victor Frankenstein is constantly thinking about what he can do and his own ambition without consequence leading to the destruction of the people in his life, and eventually the end of the his own life. From the start of his discovery of science, Frankenstein throws himself into the alchemists’ work and nothing else (48). The […]
I like the idea that Monster is sort of like a creature or man who has risen out of the cave (out of death) and into the light of the real. “My sensations had, by this time, become distinct, and my mind received every day additional ideas. My eyes became accustomed to the […]
I feel that Frankenstein’s obsession with creating life is less involved with his desire to create another living being as much as it is rooted in his lack of compassion or consideration for other human beings. As a young boy he is “given” another person, Elizabeth, as a present. He treats her as a possession […]
1 While reading the the first section in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it struck me how brief the description of the creation of the monster was. While most audiences are probably most familiar with the Hollywood production of Frankenstein with flashing lights, bolts of lightning, or a crazed Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein screaming at […]
I love Frankenstein. I love Frankenstein so much that I named my cat Frankenstein (trust me he lives up to his name!) Everytime I read Frankenstein I just hate Victor Frankenstein more and more. I have a real problem with chapter seven for many reasons. The first being Victor’s view of his creation and the […]
Little did I know that when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she was nineteen and already had a few children; few have them had died before she had a son that lived past the age of three. Her view of children in this book is interesting, she wants more from the scene of the mother who […]
We discussed in class Victors rejection of his monster but there are other important aspects I wanted to bring up. Victor struggled with himself after creating the monster. He immediately knew it was a bad idea because the world wasn’t ready for that kind of science. Creating life is a major scientific discovery, a moral […]
What is the Great Moderator? It might be a scolding parent, or a set of shameful consequences. For a student who likes video games a little too much it’s in a desire to maintain a respectable GPA. For a recovering alcoholic it might be a booze-less fridge. So, who moderates human progress? We have no aliens to […]