Mary Shelly's Frankenstein: Scene Analysis

In my creative piece I choose to rewrite the scene where the monster in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is created; I believe this is the most important scene because it is where the story shifts, it takes a bold turn and the monster becomes real instead of just a thought. Victoria is the scientist who creates the monster rather than Victor in my version, because it allowed me to add a lot of political topics and issues into the story that may have been interpreted differently if the character were a man. The creation of the monster remains an unsettling event, the monster is completed in her basement during the midst of an unruly storm. In my version I began with “On a dark cold night in Munich, Germany, Victoria Frankenstein is at work again in the lab she built in the basement of her three-story home, her assistant Carla is in the dark back corner.” The original introduction to the creation scene was “It was a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me. That I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at …show more content…
Is the creation itself the monster itself or is the creator the monster? Would it okay to mass produce beings for our armies or medical uses such as organ donations? This version of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein addresses a lot of issues, but many are vague and up to the reader to decide. The story could reflect the power of the government today, should the government have the power to take Victoria’s “child” away for the greater good of the country? The treatment and rights of the LGBTQ community are reflected in this, as well as: our treatment of the disabled, police brutality, the unfair treatment of African Americans, religion, murder and