Sal Paradise

Frankenstein: The Rage of a Monster “Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind” (69). This quote, said by the monster in Mary Shelley’s 1818 story, Frankenstein, describes the attitude of the monster throughout the book. Mary Shelley composes her story by using the themes of nature, isolation, and revenge. Through the use of those themes, Shelly successfully portrays the depths of Frankenstein. To illustrate the theme of nature, Shelly portrays nature in…

creature. The monster in fact had more compassion than his creator did. “ The monster is at once more intellectual and more emotional than his maker; indeed he excels Frankenstein as much (and in the same ways) as Milton’s Adam excels Milton’s God in Paradise Lost”(Bloom 215). Victor’s lack of compassion and failure to love; lead to the monster’s downfall and his later demise.Victor tried to hard to create life and act like God. He unlike God had no heart or compassion for the life he had…

Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley is unlike Frankenstein’s Monster, the movie. For some people, this may come as a shock. In the novel, Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates an intelligent, living being from original human body parts that he harvests from local cemeteries. After the creation comes to life, Frankenstein views the creation as a monster and reveals horrific tales of dread to his audience. Wishing to learn about life and other sciences, Victor Frankenstein…

Nature is represented as an essential quality, an inherent force or as the material world. Mary Shelley implies Nature both as a source of inspiration and also as an indifferent entity. Throughout the novel there is a sense of nature within Victor Frankenstein and the monster he has created. Victors ego leads him to giveaway a understanding of the immeasurable power of God As the story goes on, Victor becomes notable of his sense of nature and it begins to change. Nature soon becomes essential…

The monster read a book called paradise lost, this book is about the creation story and Adam, which causes the monster to question his own creation and place in the world.the monster actually reads Paradise Lost where he compared himself to Adam because, like Adam, he is uncertain about why he was created as well. The monster wants to know why Victor created him. Adam was created to build a new creation the humans which made the monster wonder more why will victor create him and what was his…

“Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice...Leave me; I am inexorable” (213). Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant Swiss scientist. He comes up with an experiment no man has ever attempted before. Frankenstein attempts to create life by his own hand. What starts off as the discovery of a century quickly goes downhill. Instead of bringing a beautiful, artificial creature to life, Frankenstein has created a horrid beast. The monster demands Frankenstein to make a duplicate…

Milton’s Paradise Lost presents Eve as a very human-like character. Sure, she ate the apple that brought sin into the world, but as humans we make mistakes every single day. This parallel between godly Eve and us regular humans indicates that we all are imperfect beings who make mistakes often and the outcomes of our mistakes are larger than we can imagine sometimes. Even with this imperfect nature found in Eve and the wrongful misogyny found in the garden of Eden, many readers see Eve as the…

Victor Frankenstein said, “The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”(Shelly) He is a scientist who created a monster for the greater good of science and humanity. In the beginning of the story, Victor believes his plan to create life was a great idea. He eventually becomes obsessed with the fact that he would almost be like a god for performing such a “good” deed. Soon after the creature is created, he realizes that what he has done is a mistake and therefore abandons it.…

Creators needs to be the master of their creation, by limiting and restricting power, and identifying the limit before the process of the creation breaks the boundaries of moral values. When Frankenstein unleashed his creation into the world, with no one to look after it, he unleashed destruction. Forgetting the responsibilities of a creator, Frankenstein, ultimately became the servant of the creation rather than the master, with the unintended consequence of making something “powerful than…

Not everyone is the same or perfect, just like the creature just because he is eight feet with a different facial appearance does not make him not human, he is just unique and different than others. But in the book "Gris Grimly's Frankenstein" I still cannot believe how Victor Frankenstein never created a mate for his creature and dies later without saying a goodbye. If I were to create a creature I wouldn’t want to be responsible for it either and wouldn’t want much contacts like Victor and his…