Responsibility in Frankenstein Essay

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster we see is not a typical monster. Instead it is seen as the embodiment of the creator’s feelings as well as his deepest secrets. However, one aspect about the monster that is quite intriguing is his embodiment of the doctor’s guilt. Frankenstein’s guilt is a feature that makes this story so questionable on the terms of monstrosity. Throughout the novel, we see that Dr. Victor Frankenstein is not only creating his own personal guilt by his creation of…

Mya A. Medeiros Ms. Toni Weeden Honors Senior English 13 November 2017 The Monster In the famous novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, a young man known as Victor Frankenstein creates a gruesome monster. Due to the fame of the novel the monster in question is one of the most famous characters around the world. The monster is referred to as cruel, unkind and horrid. However, after reading the novel many people feel sympathy for the creature. In the monster’s defense, it…

In addition to that great lizard, Frankenstein is a well known monster in movie history. The art of the film is widely enjoyed in the more civilized places of the world. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley twists the norm, when the monster shows more human qualities than his creator, Victor Frankenstein. Although Shelley paints the creature with typically evil characteristics, the creature is more a man than those men who call him a monster. Victor Frankenstein is selfish, irresponsible for…

Power Struggle in Frankenstein Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, uses a constant power struggle to enhance the character relationships in the novel. Each character handles power in their own way, and each has their own motivation for pursuing it. Most of the characters in the novel meet their demise because of the terrible ways in which they express power. The way characters interact, such as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, show who has the power and how it affects the other…

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, remains an influential piece of gothic literature utilized and widely studied in today’s society for its intricate writings. This chilling novel, inspired by a time of scientific advancement and misogynistic practices, contains various similarities to other literary works and theories. Various components of Frankenstein connect to the feminist theory, the Genesis creation story, and the Prometheus creation story through themes expressing…

Blame, “To assign responsibility to a fault or wrong” (Blame). In Mary Shelly’s, Frankenstein, blame is tossed around often throughout the novel. Although it is easy to point fingers, it is not always easy to determine who the blame belongs to. In this tragedy, Victor Frankenstein and his monster are both responsible for their actions and the ripple effects they have caused. In chapter one, Victor begins to talk about his childhood and how his parents raised him. He always believed his parents…

Humanity thinks of itself as the superior race, above all other forms of life. However, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Dr. Victor Frankenstein takes this feeling of supremacy a step further and creates a monster out of deceased human corpses that he stole from local graveyards. However, this “monster” does not outline his creator’s expectations of mindlessness or humanity, but it embodies a sentient creature with some human-like characteristics. Despite the seemingly monstrous appearance and…

time period and what that meant for the Frankenstein monster. She addresses that while the monster does read some religious stories, he ultimately learns morality from watching the family in the cottage. This article is a college level text. This source is not biased because the author addresses an opposing side of her argument. She uses in-text citations, but do not include a list of works cited. This source goes more in depth in the religion side of Frankenstein, giving a better perspective of…

Starting with Victor Frankenstein who is described as “calm and philosophical”, and who is “delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world” (66). He usually spends his time “ in vaults and charnel houses” where he admits that his obsession with his work has caused him to “forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time” (p. 50), he further admits that he has “lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit” (78) these lines…

Ranking of Monstrosity in Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley in 1818 is a Romantic novel recounting Victor Frankenstein’s creation of a grotesque monster and the unintended consequences that follow. While The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde is a Victorian novel recounting the creation of Dorian Gray’s portrait. Although Shelley’s Frankenstein and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray were were written during different literary eras, both…