Grievances In Frankenstein

The story of Frankenstein has become a favorite in the hearts of many passionate readers around the world. A story that we’re all familiar with began with a young writer, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Shelley was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William Godwin. Her early life was one of tragedy, her mother died shortly after Shelley’s birth, and she grew up as an outcast, reminding her family that her life was the very thing that caused her mothers’ death. Shelley spent much of her life processing the grievances and emotional wounds from her younger years. Such as her mothers’ death, being abandoned by her first care-taker, Louisa Jones, and being resented by her step-that a troubled life can have on an innocent being. This understanding is much of why “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus” has become a great tale which entails of many trials, dark story lines, and a deep underlying massage toward how an innocent being can be quickly turned into a …show more content…
It is no wonder that in current day the entertainment world has used this character to strike fear in viewers for decades, and many corporations have made millions by using this character and storyline. There are numerous films and stories that has used the creature in Mary Shelley’s book as a character. Many of which the character resembling the creature is mute, unintelligent, and portrays a consciousness lesser than that on a man, more like an absent-minded animal. A popular topic of question among followers of Frankenstein and Mary Shelly is why would the character have been twisted from the original, a cunning and calculating being that grows more knowledgeable with time, to a mindless