Lester Young

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the line between good and evil is blurred as a result of acts of cruelty. Victor Frankenstein played God, and yet, abandoned his creature. His inhumanity shaped his creation and bred their mutual suffering. Their fate is sealed from the very first act of cruelty: as it is the true creator of monsters. Yet, there is no clear-cut victim or perpetrator between the two main characters. Victor and the creature inflicted suffering onto each other in an endless cycle;…

The Creature knows that his life is miserable and society rejects him in every way and wallows in his woes as he speaks of his time on earth to Robert Walton. Frankenstein’s Creature speaks of his time alive to Walton like he never truly has done with anyone before, except Victor but this means nothing to the Creature as he has already realized his dream to be accepted in society is already dead. The Creature’s journey leaves him, “In a solitary expedition to the top of Mount Aveyron, undertaken…

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…

The typical adolescent is forced into a period of youth, filled with trials and tribulations. However, there are marked features during this period that denote the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Some prominent characteristics are the impressions of sexual identity and romantic relationships that develop throughout one’s youth. In Adolescence and Beyond: Family Processes and Development, Patricia K. Kerig says “becoming involved in romantic relationships is an important developmental…

Through the madness of the Frankenstein, the author Mary Shelley introduces the reader to one of the main characters Victor Frankenstein who created a monster whom was not truly a monster till he became mad for love and started killing his creator's loved ones, thus shows if that the death of Victor's loved ones was not only his monsters fault but his own. This novel also questions the mind of the reader and it their feelings towards the monster and Frankenstein. In which they mind sympathies…

Don't play God, or your reckless actions will catch up to you in the long run. It doesn't matter if your actions were intentional or not, you will receive major repercussions. The gothic novel Frankenstein, is narrative on the life of a scientist whose fatal flaw ended up costing the lives of his loved ones. Mary Shelley warns the reader by constructing relevant themes around the idea of playing God. Mary Shelley characterizes Victor's hate for his own creation by narrating his initial reaction…

Frankenstein was written in 1818, in a setting of a dark cloudy scenery. A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, gathered body parts to create a new living being, that ended up turning into a monster. The creature murdered Victor’s son and quickly became a villain and gave the novel a spooky theme. Mary Shelley’s novel falls in the gothic genre due to qualifications such as it’s horrifying events, supernatural manifestation, and it features a passion filled villain. The novel contains many…

In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley introduces a feminine gender role within the character, The Wretch. Although he was physically created male, he represents feminine characters outside the text. Shelley implicates this role relating to John Milton’s biblical characters, Eve and Satan, from his “patriarchal” epic, Paradise Lost. From this epic and the novel, Eve, Satan, and The Wretch are represented as “fallen angels”, who are the characters that have sinned against their Creator and…

In his investigation, Croker briefly summarizes, and applies commentary to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Croker projects that the novel has no significance or magnitude. Croker is able to recognize that the monster was able to learn, and have deep and immense feelings. However, although Croker interpreted the monster's behavior accurately, the important themes of the book, went over his head. He bluntly announced that the story is outright absurd, disgusting and insane. Towards the end of the…

I. Frankenstein creates life from a motionless body through science taking the powers that only God harnessed and making it his own. His lack of wisdom led to his life being taken away by the life he created. A. “... I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet” (Shelley 43). Frankenstein worked long hours to “infuse” life into an inanimate body to fulfill his desire for power. At one point Frankenstein had…