Mary Read

When one thinks of the monster from Mary Shelley's popular and often interpreted novel, many think "Frankenstein". However, as anyone who has read the book can point out, it isn't the Creature who holds the name of Frankenstein, but rather his creator. For what reason have these two characters seemed to morph into one in popular culture? While one explanation may just be lazy recounting of the novel, it could also be argued that this mis-attribution of a name stems from Victor Frankenstein being…

more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade"(Shelley 85). In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, an aspiring scientist, creates a creature of amazing proportions, and yet shuns it out of his laboratory. After these events, the monster learns that he is indeed hideous, and attempts to greet some people living near…

Frankenstein, a novel written by Mary Shelley tells the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein and his creation of a monstrous creature. Throughout the novel we are able to witness the relationship between the monster and his creator while simultaneously following their individual paths as they cross one another. From each individual journey we see how appearance, ambition, lack of compassion, affection, grief and horror contribute to each story and play a leading effect in the perspective of…

Nature vs Nurture: Human vs Monster Written in a time of Romanticism, Mary Shelley brings to question the true defining factors of what it really means to be a human being. Shelley tells a story of a created being, not born of a mother, as he discovers the process of tabula rasa, or blank slate. The idea of tabula rasa is that every individual being starts out with nothing, like blank slate. As the being develops, the world impacts every aspect of his or her life: beliefs, behaviors,…

discovering a northern passage to the pacific or just finding new territory. In the second letter is shows that he feels lonely and isolated, and different from his shipmates and too uneducated to find a someone with who can hear about his dreams. Mary wrote these letters to have some entertainment and having a twist at the end. She wanted to introduce Robert Walton and how he shows similarities to Frankenstein's monster. The second letter is explaining how he does not feel like he belongs and…

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a book steeped in metaphors, parallels, and relations to other works of fiction and non-fiction, featuring authors and thinkers such as Milton and Wollstonecraft. While much of this is readily visible within the book and footnotes, it is the hidden arc, or rather the twisting of the story of Genesis from the Bible, whose meaning permeates deep within the structure of the book. Shelley uses the Genesis story of the creation of man by God as parallel to the…

that’s all I've ever done anyone in this blasted ship has ever done". Furthermore when the captain goes over to read a book to find which button is needed turned on to turn the steering wheel off. This is seen by a close up shot on a top angle of the book in the last half of the film. The close up was a good way to show the importance of how the captain had finally turned and read a book to figure something out for himself. In contrast to how the Captain was at the start of the movie always…

It could be said that Mary Shelley’s writing was very advanced for her time, especially since she spoke about science fiction before it was a major genre. Shelley also spoke about Romanticism in Frankenstein. Her novel explored the suicide and doppelganger motifs. Although Frankenstein was one of the last Romantic works, it was also one of the first science fiction novels. Her success of Frankenstein may be due to her having drawn inspiration from her life. To this day, Shelley’s Frankenstein…

Abandoning a child is very bad for the child themself, it can also be very dangerous and detrimental to others around them. The tale of Frankenstein is a very good example of it. Most will say that it is a cautionary tale of what happens when you pursue knowledge, however, there is many examples of what can happen if you abandon a child in Frankenstein. The Monster is always left alone with no one else but himself and always verbally and physically abused when seen in society. That affected his…

Did you know that Mary Shelley, the author of one the most studied books in our recent history, was less than twenty years old when she started writing the novel Frankenstein? Pretty impressive considering how complex the book is, plot, characters and all. One of the things we all know about this book is how a doctor created a creature and this creature went on a rampage and killed people and we all think we know how monstrous he is. But that’s not the full story, some could argue that Victor…