Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley started writing her best-known novel at the age of eighteen. This novel is Frankenstein, written in 1818. Frankenstein is a classic gothic tale of fright, suffering, and preoccupation that tell a tragic story of Victor Frankenstein and is set in the time period of 17--. Shelley utilizes the theme of society rejecting monstrosity by using tone, symbolism, and the arrangement of the novel. Mary demonstrates tone in the theme of society rejecting monstrosity by society rejecting the nameless creature. When the monster was looking for food in the village the children shrieked and the women fainted. In the novel, the monster says “The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously
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This quote certainly exhibits society rejecting monstrosity, because the village started to bombard a creature who was trying to survive by getting food from a shop. The village attacked the monster since he was not like the rest of him. The monster pronounces ¨I sickened as I read. ´Hateful day when I received life!´ I exclaimed in agony. ´Accrued creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?¨ (94). This mention of the book shows that even Victor, the person who created the monster, rejects monstrosity. Another part in the novel that shows this theme is in chapter 16. ¨I sunk to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood. This was then the reward …show more content…
Justine is a symbol of the theme. Justine was accused of murdering William when she was sickly ill. This all came to be when they found the locket with Caroline Beaufort, William´s mother, the picture inside. They found the locket in Justine's pocket. Justine says, ¨And do you also believe that I am so very, very wicked? Do you also join with my enemies to crush me, to condemn me as a murderer?¨ (59). In addition to, ¨I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart that all my other sins. The God of heaven forgive me!¨ (59). Justine was an aged woman who was sick. How could she be the one who killed William? The society did not look upon this evidence to see that she could not do that physically. The community only saw the evidence of the locket in Justine's pocket. Justine is rejected by the community. Another quote in chapter nine shows the theme as well. Victor says ¨ I was now free.¨ (63). Frankenstein says this because he was free from his father. The father speaks to Victor telling him that he is not the only one who suffers from the death William. Victor, in this case, is the monster and the father the society. Victor created the creature who killed William and Justine. Alphonse leaves Victor alone for the night, rejecting the monster. Chapter twelve has a quote from the monster saying ¨I who was
This quote certainly exhibits society rejecting monstrosity, because the village started to bombard a creature who was trying to survive by getting food from a shop. The village attacked the monster since he was not like the rest of him. The monster pronounces ¨I sickened as I read. ´Hateful day when I received life!´ I exclaimed in agony. ´Accrued creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?¨ (94). This mention of the book shows that even Victor, the person who created the monster, rejects monstrosity. Another part in the novel that shows this theme is in chapter 16. ¨I sunk to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood. This was then the reward …show more content…
Justine is a symbol of the theme. Justine was accused of murdering William when she was sickly ill. This all came to be when they found the locket with Caroline Beaufort, William´s mother, the picture inside. They found the locket in Justine's pocket. Justine says, ¨And do you also believe that I am so very, very wicked? Do you also join with my enemies to crush me, to condemn me as a murderer?¨ (59). In addition to, ¨I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart that all my other sins. The God of heaven forgive me!¨ (59). Justine was an aged woman who was sick. How could she be the one who killed William? The society did not look upon this evidence to see that she could not do that physically. The community only saw the evidence of the locket in Justine's pocket. Justine is rejected by the community. Another quote in chapter nine shows the theme as well. Victor says ¨ I was now free.¨ (63). Frankenstein says this because he was free from his father. The father speaks to Victor telling him that he is not the only one who suffers from the death William. Victor, in this case, is the monster and the father the society. Victor created the creature who killed William and Justine. Alphonse leaves Victor alone for the night, rejecting the monster. Chapter twelve has a quote from the monster saying ¨I who was