James Whale

Frankenstein Reflective Journal After reading the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, I can certainly see that the character Victor Frankenstein himself is isolated and lonely. This is illustrated through each chapter in even more depth as you read deeper into the novel. Victor doesn't epitomize the stereotypical man, pertaining to his level of sensitivity. For a man to be a man, they must act like one, and as cliché as it is, I have concluded that Victor defies this presumption by…

In the extract of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley describes the look and actions of Frankenstein’s monster as well as Frankenstein’s reactions toward his monster. Shelley uses language and an ominous setting to create a fearsome creature. When Mary Shelley contrasts the monster’s beautiful features to its grotesque ones, her language creates an appalling creature. She states, “…these luxuriances only formed more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same color as the dun-white…

There are many lessons to be learned through Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, but many of those messages are diluted or lost all together in the digital world that we live in today. The access to digital media has indeed proven to be more convenient than those of traditional books but what some digital media fails to do is convey the rhetorical lessons in the same way that the author originally intended, such as the 1931 film version of Frankenstein. More times than not, the digital form…

A monster, in my eyes, is a creature that lacks thought process, and lacks the ability to see right from wrong. Well - lacks the ability not to see it, but lacks the ability to control their impulses and resist from acting on the "wrong". A monster is someone who also lacks the ability to change - but that's a rather odd topic for me to talk about. Frankenstein, in my eyes, is not a monster. Frankenstein knew what he was doing, and knew he was doing the wrong thing, but he shows a capability to…

Throughout the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Solitude becomes an important role in both Victor Frankenstein and his creatures life. Mary Shelley tries to incorporate how solitude effects both characters throughout the different changes in the novel. Over the course of the novel, Victor becomes very passionate about science to the point where he becomes sort of obsessed with his experiment on the creature. As time passes by Victor dislikes the outcome of his experiment and tries to get away…

Dr. Victor Frankenstein achieves his victory very similar to that to the British when they defeated the French at Waterloo. The overview of Frankenstein helps to show how victory is achieved by Victor in the novel. Victories aren’t always achieved on a battlefield, or a field, or even in the classroom. Some triumphs, however, are won in life itself. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a successful scientist, and his creation of his “creature”. The story is told…

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is a story about Victor Frankenstein creating a "monster", but his creature has no monster like qualities until he is left and abandoned by his creator. The creature is only treated with cruelty and rancor because of his gruesome appearance. The creature gets no sympathy throughout his life and greatly suffers because of it. Through the description of the creatures plight Shelley suggests compassion as the true indication of human nature. At the beginning of…

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we meet a character named Victor Frankenstein who starts off on a voyage but ends up on a quest for knowledge in his head. When obtaining this knowledge and making his creations Victor begins to seclude himself from everyone and everything. As the story goes on its evident that solitude does play an important role in the story, but solitude was not always beneficial for both Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Solitude caused unfeasible decisions for the…

Monsters are often portrayed as the villain, there is only two options either the cause or the effect. Frankenstein by the author Mary Shelley is a book that talks about a young man named Victor Frankenstein whose vision was beyond what was believed to be possible and because of this, Victor turned the impossible possible. Often when doing things out of the ordinary there should always be a conscious thought that the outcome of something might be different than what it was believed to be. For…

“Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out, quoted Willie Nelson.” In Mary Shelley’s Novel, Frankenstein, the main protagonist, Victor Frankenstein pursues diligently in order to find the elixir of life. Even though Victor had an earnest desire to acquire knowledge, his lacks of compassion for his creation through the act of abandonment had a devastating impact not…