Opposition In Frankenstein

What’s good or evil cannot be defined by the perception of how ones identifies themselves but how one’s action changes other view and ultimately their life. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Victor and the creature journey through the path of good and evil knowing that neither one of them was considered just good or just evil. Similarly to the novel Sula by Toni Morrison, both Nel and Sula face the same obstacles and shared a similar experience. In addition to the theme of good and evil, the concept of straddling the binary opposition is another related theme. Examples of these oppositions include fire versus water, nature versus society, and acceptances versus abandonment. Each of the binary oppositions creates harmonies for the role …show more content…
Nel believe she was good in many ways, one in which took place upon Chicken Little death. She was convincing of goodness, because of the little involvement she had on the death. Nel Quote, “ I didn’t throw the little boy in the river. That was Sula” (Sula,168). Morrison then continued to show the goodness with the example of her passive life as a mother with a husband. This risen Nel image because of her obedience’s towards the norms, values, and moral of the towns culture. Lastly was the event cause by Sula, which led to the abandonment of Jude. Although Nel was a victim of this affair, it build sympathy for Nel, thus creating the image of goodness in the perspective of the audiences. Having these examples of Sula and Nel shows that what good and evil is clearly being perceived from the action of the characters. While this can be seen as an appropriate behavior by he audience considering action they’ve committed, Morrison demonstrated that the effects of Sula and Nel delivered changed the notion and the sense of the audiences in a positive way. Both Nel and Sula portrays good and bad, and both actions in the end altered the lives of the people surrounding them, but most importantly, the major effect was the alteration of their friendship. In relation to Morrison’s novel, Mary Shelley wrote a similar obstacle that Sula and Nel encounter within her novel, …show more content…
Although the Creature was based out of male features, it can be argue that it was sexless. Shelley created this topic, so that the mind of the reader can wonder and allowed them to see through the perspective of genderless creature. The Creature was identified as evil, mostly simply for it horrific feature. Shelley then later, includes involvement with the death of Victor family, which made the creature more evil than it already is. The death of William, Henry, Elizabeth, and Victor himself, is defined as an evil doing, but not because of the killing it self, but the way the killing transpire. The creature did not simply stab the characters, but strangles them with its own bare hand while possibly grazing upon their eyes as they slowly perish. Due to his feature, his encounter then later became more and more violent, as the towns people runs him out of town, with weapons. The Creature was confused of why he was created, so he hungers for the answer. He progress forward in hope of finding whether he was creating for the purpose of good or evil. For every encounter, he faced negative outcome, which he then later realize maybe it was or the purpose of evil, which “he” was created for. Both Victor and the Creature, are opposite of each other, and Shelley created both for the purpose of showing how good and evil collide once again, just as Morrison did with Sula and