Focusing On a Clockwork Orange and Frankenstein compare some of the ways authors explore the idea of what it means to be an outcast.
Ben Wood A2 English - November 10
Focusing On A Clockwork Orange and Frankenstein compare some of the ways authors explore the idea of what it means to be an outcast.
Focusing On a Clockwork Orange and Frankenstein compare some of the ways authors explore the idea of what it means to be an outcast.
Within both A clockwork orange and Frankenstein many themes and motifs are highlighted and in many cases aid to construct the structure of the two novels. One aspect of these motifs is the idealism of an outcast. This is structured differently however in both novels and is explored in both similar and different ways.
Because an outcast is defined as a person who is not accepted in society or a group, It is quite easy to portray this in both novels because of the fact people can become outcasts because of their beliefs, the differences in appearance and possibly because of a group of different people it is a common factor amongst all societies, it is possibly a sign of fear or maybe even variation in levels of racism or acceptance criteria into society. People often create outcasts because of the inability to work around either differences or the naivety or better suited the ignorance of individuality; these are all active in both A Clockwork Orange and Frankenstein.
Starting with an analysis of Frankenstein and continuing to compare with A Clockwork Orange the ideas of an outcast shall be discussed thoroughly from multiple viewpoints so to access the methods used by the authors.
Victor Frankenstein is technically an outcast, in the relationship between him and the monster, because of the way he created a monstrosity who has to suffer with being an outcast himself. He may have refused to create a mate for the monster because, like himself, the monster has no-one else and by creating a female for the monster would leave him as the remaining character in the novel that is not accepted. However it is not society that doesn’t accept Victor, instead it’s himself and the alienation that he has created, not purposely obviously, but created nevertheless, when he made the monster that has killed family members and driven friends to their death also. This is quite a key point in the novel, Shelley, who has often been found to hide many motifs and symbolisms amongst the lines of Frankenstein, has included, the point being that not all of the outcasts in the world are outcasts because of social reasons, she possibly felt this after losing a child, she may have felt she had no-one to share the horror with and put pen to paper with this emotion enclosing it within Victor’s dark secret of creating a monster, who has the possibilities of overpowering and killing any human being, but Victor is so ashamed of this monstrosity he had created that the secret must remain hidden to the world, possibly a parallel of Shelley, who could have been ashamed by the fact that she was unable to mother the child she lost.
