Examples Of Sentimentalism In Frankenstein

Workshop Frankenstein: Science Fiction Vs Sentimentalism For this workshop, we looked onto different phrases that struck our curiosity. I felt as if most of them had the same hidden message: egotism engenders only misery. Our first narrator, explorer Robert Walton, reveals in one of his letters that “he shall not kill no albatross” (19) making an allusion to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel T. Coleridge. In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the old Mariner kills an innocent albatross for no reasonable reason while the bird had tried to help him and his crew. The spirits of the sea murder everybody on board and leave the mariner alive, the same way Dr. Frankenstein’s family is murdered by the Creature who allows Dr. Frankenstein to live. In that …show more content…
Frankenstein. I believe Dr. Frankenstein was at first immune to the prejudice that circulated in his Victorian society because of his academic passion towards creating life. Throughout the story, Shelley makes a distinction between life and death. Death being far more sorrowful and grim than life. When Frankenstein’s mother dies, for instance, the mad scientist relates how they “must continue thei course with the rest, and learn to think themselves fortunate, whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized (26).” The Creature breaks this illusion of normality after death, running a hole through the fabric of the semi-perfect Victorian society. Frankenstein, however, does not realize what he has done until after he has done it. Shelley describes how Frankenstein’s eyes “were insensible to the charms of nature (34)” while working on Frankenstein. The moment that Frankenstein achieves his goal, “the beauty of his dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled his heart (36).” Frankenstein did not think twice about building a new body out of unanimated corpses for his academic endeavor, at least not until he was