The act of emulating a poignant experience through a fictional yet consequential pursuit of knowledge can only be accomplished with an earnest, imaginative, and impassioned mind. Frankenstein embodies not only a physical voyage of a fictional character in the nineteenth century, but a timeless, metaphysical expedition through the unknown natural world. The Knight’s Quarterly Review suggests that the fault in Frankenstein is its “cold, crude, nonconsecutive, and wearisome” perception, but it is this exact melancholic aura that portrays Mary Shelley's impression of the unknown natural world.
As Victor Frankenstein embarks on the pursuit of unlocking the secret to life, he endures a multitude of trials and tribulations - evidently leading him to his downfall. In order to animate the ramifications of such an unpredictable task, Mary Shelley had to deluge her thriller in a “cold, crude, nonconsecutive, and wearisome” manner. Ironically, it takes a certain ardor of an author to write of such lassitude.
The Knight’s Quarterly Review also proclaimed that the novel lacked “rapidity and enthusiastic energy which hurries [the reader] forward.” It is necessary to note that it is this exact “enthusiastic …show more content…
Therefore, nothing can be “overwritten,” as suggested by The Knight’s Quarterly Review, so long as the author had intentions for doing so. For example, a large portion of Chapter 2 of Frankenstein is Victor pondering a time when he was thirteen years old. At first glance, this may in fact seem like “overwriting,” but a closer look reveals something much deeper. After Victor’s father suggests that alchemy is “sad trash,” Victor states, “It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.” One could suggest that his father disapproval converted him into a monster - just as Victor created a monster of his
As Victor Frankenstein embarks on the pursuit of unlocking the secret to life, he endures a multitude of trials and tribulations - evidently leading him to his downfall. In order to animate the ramifications of such an unpredictable task, Mary Shelley had to deluge her thriller in a “cold, crude, nonconsecutive, and wearisome” manner. Ironically, it takes a certain ardor of an author to write of such lassitude.
The Knight’s Quarterly Review also proclaimed that the novel lacked “rapidity and enthusiastic energy which hurries [the reader] forward.” It is necessary to note that it is this exact “enthusiastic …show more content…
Therefore, nothing can be “overwritten,” as suggested by The Knight’s Quarterly Review, so long as the author had intentions for doing so. For example, a large portion of Chapter 2 of Frankenstein is Victor pondering a time when he was thirteen years old. At first glance, this may in fact seem like “overwriting,” but a closer look reveals something much deeper. After Victor’s father suggests that alchemy is “sad trash,” Victor states, “It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.” One could suggest that his father disapproval converted him into a monster - just as Victor created a monster of his