James Gordon

From blockbuster Hollywood movies to parodies on the internet, the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is commonly portrayed as a “monster”, but is this accusation really true? The creator of the creature, Victor Frankenstein may have more in common with the “monster” than previously thought. Through careful evaluation, we can see the many similarities and differences between the two main characters in the story. In Frankenstein, the similarities between the creature and its creator,…

In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley often will allude to personal experiences that have happened in her own life. She takes the events of her own life and reflects them through Victor, the monster, and other events in the novel. Examples of this include the deaths of innocent people in the novel, influence of parents, abandonment of a loved one, and how the creation of the novel, Frankenstein, is very similar to Victor’s creation of the creature (Shelley 43). Mary Shelley’s life is death…

When one is asked to think of their idea of a monster, they usually come up with something along the lines of no emotions, no remorse, and pure disgust. On the contrary, two prominent novels in literature, Grendel by John Gardner and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, claim that monsters can indeed show emotions and the ability to reason as a normal human being. Both novels introduce a physically hideous monster on the outside, isolated from the rest of the world. These two creatures are shown to…

In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the character Victor Frankenstein is very interested into philosophy which brought his desire to bring death to life. As Victor worked to his maximum energy to create a human he soon realized he's done. However, when the creature came to life victor was shocked but fearful of what he has done. Then Victor deserted his creature who then lived a stressful and isolated life. The opinion of whether the creature is human or not is very straightforward. Two…

Education is a large concept discussed within Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. However, education within the novel is not discussed in a contemporary sense, insead using it to convey the concepts of irregular education, scientific discovery, and the importance of learning about one self. Throughout Frankenstein education is discussed in a variety of sense mainly in the forms of differing self learning and the use of self-learning to propel yourself forward.…

Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley hints at the similarity of the relationship between Frankenstein and the creature, and the relationship between God and humanity in deism. Deists believe in an unreachable and distant God who created nature and humanity, then stepped out. They believe in the principle that God abandoned the world, and the laws of nature now govern humanity. Evil and corruption only enter the world when humanity fails to live up to their potential or to the laws of nature.…

In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley repeatedly suggests—and eventually delivers upon—the imminence of doom based upon the protagonist’s unbridled ambition in order to warn of the gruesome consequences of hubris and ego. Victor Frankenstein, the title character and protagonist, seeked to discover the secret of creation, not to cure disease or to better the world, but instead, simply to gain fame and clout in the scientific community. Not only did Frankenstein aim to essentially “play God”…

In Mary Shelly's “Frankenstein”, the relationship between creator and created is scrutinized and put up to the test as Victor neglects his creation causing his rampage. Yet Victor himself is quite hypocritical when speaking on the malignancy of the monster, as in many cases he himself exemplifies many of the characteristics that the creature posses such as both seek the destruction of the others as well as the damnation layer upon both for the nefarious actions committed. However, they are still…

Introduction One of the vital challenges which mankind has always faced is alienation. The nineteenth century gothic novels, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1845-46), artistically demonstrate the never ending cycle of being an outcast in society and share the common point in presenting the character’s sense of disjunction and alienation. Frankenstein is the petrifying account of a brute which was given life and fabricated by Victor Frankenstein and…

James Cameron’s “Avatar” is hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time. The story starts with explaining how by the year 2154 the human race has expended all of the resources of earth, and has set up a base of operations on the moon of Pandora with the intent of harvesting the mineral “unobtainium” for use as an energy source. The story follows our protagonist, Jake Sully, a paraplegic ex-marine who signed up to be part of the human’s “Avatar Program”, which involves the use of…