Isaiah Westry
Professor Gokey
Humanities 112-11
19 March 2015 The Judgment of a book by its cover The lapse of time may force many things to become irrelevant. In the case of artistic pieces of work many different types of artists, specifically authors use their personal experiences to relate to their readers. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley can be argued to be a very relatable as well as relevant piece of literature from the early 1800s because of the issues our society as a whole undertakes. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, holds the place of a scientist who uses his brilliant skills to create a living creature of his own. Shelly uses theme, motif …show more content…
For many, many years women fought to be considered equal or even better than men and not simple creatures of beauty and just caretakers of children. Mary Shelley, was the daughter of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and the way Shelley forms her female characters, you can pick up that she was heavily influenced by her mother’s ideas. An example of the use of Elizabeth’s intelligence was her use in Justine’s trial, “a murmur of approbation heard; but I was excited by her generous interference, and not in favor of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude”(56). Being a woman, her testimony was considered a “murmured approbation”, although it was given with eloquence and strongly delivered, because she is a woman no one can actually admit that she has good ideas and can relate to them expressively. Other women in the social class field compared to Elizabeth are Safie and Agatha who can be considered less wealthy than her. The reader can assume that these two women have less education and must do more work to survive. The monster recalls” [Agatha meeting Felix] at the door, [to help] relieve him of his burden… after he had been employed thus about an hour, [Agatha] joined [Felix] and they entered the cottage …show more content…
Marry Shelly uses word choice to share her experience. Mary Shelly also shows the use of ignorance and the lack of acceptance is a common issue still in today’s society and that it was still present in her society. Mary Shelley’s use motif, theme, and her personal experiences, create a complex novel not only about a monster, but rather a concept of not accepting people because of how they look or
Professor Gokey
Humanities 112-11
19 March 2015 The Judgment of a book by its cover The lapse of time may force many things to become irrelevant. In the case of artistic pieces of work many different types of artists, specifically authors use their personal experiences to relate to their readers. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley can be argued to be a very relatable as well as relevant piece of literature from the early 1800s because of the issues our society as a whole undertakes. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, holds the place of a scientist who uses his brilliant skills to create a living creature of his own. Shelly uses theme, motif …show more content…
For many, many years women fought to be considered equal or even better than men and not simple creatures of beauty and just caretakers of children. Mary Shelley, was the daughter of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and the way Shelley forms her female characters, you can pick up that she was heavily influenced by her mother’s ideas. An example of the use of Elizabeth’s intelligence was her use in Justine’s trial, “a murmur of approbation heard; but I was excited by her generous interference, and not in favor of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude”(56). Being a woman, her testimony was considered a “murmured approbation”, although it was given with eloquence and strongly delivered, because she is a woman no one can actually admit that she has good ideas and can relate to them expressively. Other women in the social class field compared to Elizabeth are Safie and Agatha who can be considered less wealthy than her. The reader can assume that these two women have less education and must do more work to survive. The monster recalls” [Agatha meeting Felix] at the door, [to help] relieve him of his burden… after he had been employed thus about an hour, [Agatha] joined [Felix] and they entered the cottage …show more content…
Marry Shelly uses word choice to share her experience. Mary Shelly also shows the use of ignorance and the lack of acceptance is a common issue still in today’s society and that it was still present in her society. Mary Shelley’s use motif, theme, and her personal experiences, create a complex novel not only about a monster, but rather a concept of not accepting people because of how they look or