In the excerpt “From Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley, scientist Victor Frankenstein describes his initial reaction towards the awakening of the creature he created. Immediately after Frankenstein animates his creature he is horrified and convinced that he created a monster. Frankenstein initially desired to animate a beautiful creature but was repulsed by his creation once it came to life. Instead of caring for his creation, Frankenstein abandons the creature, forcing it to fend for itself. Three authors offer different theories useful in analyzing the relationship between Frankenstein and his creature. Scholar and professor at the University of Michigan, Andrew J. Hoffman, explains in his introductory piece of Monsters that there is relationship between human fear and monsters:“[t]he promise [of monster stories] is that if we can control the monster, we can control our fears”(15).
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Lastly, author of religion, Timothy Beal, expresses that monsters and people share a connection in the Chronicle of Higher Education essay “Our Monsters, Ourselves” by emphasizing that monsters “invite us to discover our monsters in ourselves and ourselves in our monsters.” These three dynamics relate to “From Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus”, because Frankenstein could not control his fear nor his creation, but did acquire “self knowledge”, and realized the monster within himself and himself within the
Lastly, author of religion, Timothy Beal, expresses that monsters and people share a connection in the Chronicle of Higher Education essay “Our Monsters, Ourselves” by emphasizing that monsters “invite us to discover our monsters in ourselves and ourselves in our monsters.” These three dynamics relate to “From Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus”, because Frankenstein could not control his fear nor his creation, but did acquire “self knowledge”, and realized the monster within himself and himself within the