MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN
Creativity, a formative and vital part of literature is marked by an irresistible urge to look at its methodologies and surroundings from a changed perspective. In this piece of writing I tried to analyze the literary writing of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.
Literary works serve as a food for thought and tonic for imagination and creativity. One can understand life through the reading of such literary works. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a towering figure in the Victorian era, is the most talented women writer who incorporated many types of novels. Frankenstein is an obvious example of the post- colonial literary criticism. The post- colonial criticism of Frankenstein highlights the problems with imperialism and reject Euro centric claims of universalism. It is the story of a creature and its creator.
At the beginning of the story, Shelley introduces Captain Robert Walton, who is obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and tells his story to the Caption. He was a from Geneva, brought up from a rich and aristocratic family. Victor was a brilliant student and he fell in love with his stepsister, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was an orphan girl, who was raised by his father Baron Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to studied at the university and promises to get marries to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advices him that he should not try this experiment since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries to create life. He succeeds and gives life to a strong Creature, composed of parts of diseased and death persons. However, he realizes that his experiment is a mistake and he abandons the Creature expecting that it will die alone. However, the creature survives and learns how to read and write, but he is a monster rejected by society and his own creator. The creature decides to seek revenge from Victor by killing everyone he loves.
There is an indirect hint of all realms of lives in this story. Both the creature and its creator suffers a lot. The very important aspect of this novel which I perceived is that it revolves around the life of Victor Frankenstein. Only through Victor Frankenstein, the loop of the story gets developed. His deeds are the fundamental key for all the misfortunes. The circumstances make the creature as like a devil and an alien.
The book is written as a series of narratives in the first person; introduced as a series of letters from an explorer to his sister, then as a recount of Victor Frankenstein’s tale. The language is the representative of typical English in the 19th century. However, it is easy to understand and the prose is very interesting. The plot is built up masterfully and the two characters are remarkably well sketched.
I was surprised at how good the attire of the plot was. After seeing a number of Frankenstein movies throughout my life, I was prepared for a novel about a mindless monster, stumbling around a lab and breaking everything in its path. What I got instead was a passionate tale of deep sadness and tragedy, there Shelley explored the themes of natural law, justice, evil vs. good, love, loss, redemption, and death. Her descriptions about the landscapes are gorgeous, and her ability to present concise points economically was actually startling. The only knock I would have on this is that there are a couple little holes in the story, and not much character- development, although I do realize this is more of an internal thematic wrestling match. However, aa a package, really, this is a very well-known written, very sad, tragic story, and a great book.
Creativity, a formative and vital part of literature is marked by an irresistible urge to look at its methodologies and surroundings from a changed perspective. In this piece of writing I tried to analyze the literary writing of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.
Literary works serve as a food for thought and tonic for imagination and creativity. One can understand life through the reading of such literary works. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a towering figure in the Victorian era, is the most talented women writer who incorporated many types of novels. Frankenstein is an obvious example of the post- colonial literary criticism. The post- colonial criticism of Frankenstein highlights the problems with imperialism and reject Euro centric claims of universalism. It is the story of a creature and its creator.
At the beginning of the story, Shelley introduces Captain Robert Walton, who is obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and tells his story to the Caption. He was a from Geneva, brought up from a rich and aristocratic family. Victor was a brilliant student and he fell in love with his stepsister, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was an orphan girl, who was raised by his father Baron Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to studied at the university and promises to get marries to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advices him that he should not try this experiment since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries to create life. He succeeds and gives life to a strong Creature, composed of parts of diseased and death persons. However, he realizes that his experiment is a mistake and he abandons the Creature expecting that it will die alone. However, the creature survives and learns how to read and write, but he is a monster rejected by society and his own creator. The creature decides to seek revenge from Victor by killing everyone he loves.
There is an indirect hint of all realms of lives in this story. Both the creature and its creator suffers a lot. The very important aspect of this novel which I perceived is that it revolves around the life of Victor Frankenstein. Only through Victor Frankenstein, the loop of the story gets developed. His deeds are the fundamental key for all the misfortunes. The circumstances make the creature as like a devil and an alien.
The book is written as a series of narratives in the first person; introduced as a series of letters from an explorer to his sister, then as a recount of Victor Frankenstein’s tale. The language is the representative of typical English in the 19th century. However, it is easy to understand and the prose is very interesting. The plot is built up masterfully and the two characters are remarkably well sketched.
I was surprised at how good the attire of the plot was. After seeing a number of Frankenstein movies throughout my life, I was prepared for a novel about a mindless monster, stumbling around a lab and breaking everything in its path. What I got instead was a passionate tale of deep sadness and tragedy, there Shelley explored the themes of natural law, justice, evil vs. good, love, loss, redemption, and death. Her descriptions about the landscapes are gorgeous, and her ability to present concise points economically was actually startling. The only knock I would have on this is that there are a couple little holes in the story, and not much character- development, although I do realize this is more of an internal thematic wrestling match. However, aa a package, really, this is a very well-known written, very sad, tragic story, and a great book.
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