The Young Slave

Victor Frankenstein rejects his own creature at his birth, which is considered to be an evil deed. Considering the monster’s situation as a newborn baby, who comes to life, he needs his parents to take care of him. Victor as his parent is responsible to nurture him, but he rejects his creature and as the monster is rejected, therefore, he takes on evil deeds. The relationship that Victor Frankenstein develops with his creature mirrors the relationship that Victor had with his own father. Victor…

In Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, she emphasizes the dangers that modern science can bring if one uses it recklessly. Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist, uses his expansive knowledge of the sciences to create a living human-like creature. Victor creates this creature with no regard or consideration of the effects that the creature can have; he assumes no moral responsibility for it by not placing limitations on it . When the creature realizes his oddness from humans, he becomes unstable.…

Throughout the classic Novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley reveals Victor’s true characteristics of insecurity, passion, insecurity, and more as she depicts Victor’s actions as the idea of the monster is born and finally becomes alive. Victor acknowledges “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and weather it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature [...]” (Shelley 19). Victor’s motivations started out completely pure and only developed for a…

In chapters 4 and 5 the reader sees the process that Frankenstein used to construct the creature, in a gloomy, insidious tone. Victor vividly describes the scene of him creating life from the dead, how he was amazed at first but then was disgusted. The author’s use of synecdoche presents the body parts used , such as the “eyes that were fixed on [him]”(19) and his “jaws that opened”(Shelley 20). The intentional use of body parts by Frankenstein describe a whole to portray the significance of…

Isolation. Revenge. What do these words mean? When one thinks of the word ¨Frankenstein¨ before they read the book, they think of the monster and or the creature. But Frankenstein is actually named Victor, and he is the creator of the monster. Victor was a man who became very isolated, and did not associate with anyone for a long period of time. Thus making him get an insane idea to copy the idea of life. When he tested with life he, in my opinion, was turning himself into a monster. Looks are…

The monster has power, ambition and drive these are not only the characteristics of Victor but also his unconscious and inactive thoughts. Each character is a derived from Mary Shelley herself. The creation is well rounded and educated at such a young age and just wants to be loved. Victor is the creator and just like Shelley gives birth and they are criticized and misunderstood for being something of a different world. Elizabeth the primary female within the novel is Shelley’s idea of wanting…

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night at 12:00am and feeling like there is an intruder in your bedroom. Of course it’s dark so every person would say the classic who’s there? Well that’s what happens to the old man in Tell-Tale Heart. Tell-Tale Heart is about a man who hates this old man because of one thing he can not control, his eye. The man later plans out a plot to kill the old man so the eye will bother him no more. The narrator goes to the old man’s and murders him silently, with…

A novel whose distortion led to its simultaneous preservation as the emblematic framework for science fiction, Frankenstein. Frankenstein’s influence, or pop culture’s regurgitation of this novel, seems to permeate society in more abundance than the original form of the book. Both versions have their own audience and different reputations. Frankenstein is a worthwhile read, even if it is being read comparatively to pop cultural misconceptions. Despite an excessively foreshadowed plot, Shelley’s…

One of the negative influences of his parent’s use of free-learning was Frankenstein’s discovery of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. As stated in the text “I cannot help remarking here the many opportunities instructors possess of directing the attention of their pupils to useful knowledge, which they utterly neglect” (22). This neglect ultimately results in Frankenstein’s obsession with re-animation and his monster creation. The issues that arise in the parenthood of Frankenstein can be…

Graham Young, also known as the Teacup Poisoner was born Sept. 7th, 1947. At the early age of 14, in 1961, Young started to test poison on his own family. After doing so, Graham’s stepmother would soon pass away. Young was put into a mental hospital for criminals after admitting to poisoning his own family. He was free after nine years. However, being put away was no help for this young man. Graham began to poison again! Early Years: Graham never knew his mother. Three months after giving birth…