Symbolism In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Carl Sagan once said, “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” Mary Shelly, author of several novels, wrote Frankenstein in 1818. Frankenstein, a story within a story, also known as genre blending, navigates readers to a fictitious world full of knowledge, friendship, hate, and death. Among this fictitious world, a specific man, Victor Frankenstein, gathers great knowledge from numerous science books. After years of absorbing a collection scientific information, he yearned to use his knowledge for something great and useful. Using his outstanding knowledge and imagination, he constructs a grotesque monster from body parts. Also, using her imagination and knowledge, Shelly these characters to demonstrate different symbols in order to issue a mesmerizing novel. Demonstrated by Victor and the monster, biblical, ice, and fire help form Shelly’s horrific novel. …show more content…
Reading and comprehending carefully, readers will notice the use of Biblical symbolism. A man full of knowledge, Victor Frankenstein, re-animates life by creating the monster. Victor Frankenstein believed that he would be blessed as “creator and source”. He classified himself as a god. In chapter fifteen, the monster reads Milton’s Paradise Lost. After reading this, the monster noticed that he was similar to Adam and Satan. He stated, “no link to any other being in existence” and “for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me” to prove his