Individualism In Frankenstein

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Frankenstein: The mother of gothic Horror was published in 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley´s for gothic fiction, science fiction, and all the horror novels that followed it.weaving the gothic elements of romantic values of nature and individualism, the author delivers a tale about unchecked ambition and the consequences of disturbing the order of nature, physiologist, artist, feminist, generation of scientists and ethicists have been inspired by the author dark story. The novel begins with some letters that Captain Walton wrote to his sister. In one of those letters, the account that saw a strange figure in the snow that was moving at high speed and soon lost sight of. A few days later they rescued a castaway, Victor Frankenstein, who is …show more content…
Victor, from an early age, became interested in science and research and read many books on the subject. Soon he moved to Ingolstadt to continue his studies where he met his friend Henry Clerval. There Victor continued with his investigations and began to create a living being from corpses. Victor created a monstrous being from which he fled the moment he saw him.
He soon received the bad news that his brother William had been murdered and Justine, the maid, was accused of his death. Elizabeth and Victor knew that Justine had not been able to come to this murder and Victor also imagined who you could be.
Víctor to clear up traveled to the Alps where he met his creation that began to tell him the story of his short and hard existence. The monster that told that he was rejected by all the people that was in his way and became a woman with the murder of William. So the monster asked a Victor to create a female for him and in this way he could be happy and live with someone who understood him. Victor rejected the proposal and the monster as revenge murdered his friend
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Like Adam, he is shunned by his creator, though he strives to be good. These rhetorical questions epitomize the monster’s ill will toward Victor for abandoning him in a world relentlessly hostile to him and foist responsibility for his ugliness and eventual evil upon Victor.

Critique.
I've never read this book before, and it's one of the best I've read about science fiction.
For me this is a book, romantic and spooky work on more than one occasion. A very good adaptation in that opinion of that great horror myth that is Frankenstein.Branagh does not shine for its interpretation but let's say "convincing" result, the one that surpasses that adjective to get to the masterful is Robert de Niro, which I think is perfect in his role. He manages to touch us and terrorize us in what is undoubtedly one of his best interpretations. It is not Boris, but it is undoubtedly a different and new way of making ourselves known, of making us see which human side of the "monster".

This story is very well done, the roles of the characters are very remarkable, but there is not much drama in the story, only in the end. It also attracted me a lot because in some parts of the story you should keep reading to know and understand what is

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