Frakenstein - over view of the plot.

Frakenstein - over view of the

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The presentation of Frankenstein in chapters 11 16

The presentation of Frankenstein in chapters 11 - 16 The novel, Frankenstein is a story about a man who went to great extent to defy the laws of nature. His greatest desire; to create a being from scratch, one who will cheat its way out of the hands of death and diseases, one who never has to die or lose a loved one, a superior being, one that will revolutionise humankind. The author of this novel was a young woman named Mary Shelley who wrote the story at a youthful age of 19. It's said that the inspiration of the story came in a form of a nightmare while she was enjoying a holiday in Geneva with her family. The story was published in London in 1818. The tale had a large impact across literature and sparked the birth of gothic horror in books and films. The novel has 2 settings; the North Pole and Geneva, her holiday location. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful with powers and attributes no human could ever possess, kind of like taking the role of God into his own hands. Miraculously, he is successful with his creation, but due to hasty decisions, he rejects it. This he comes to regret later on, as one by one each of his family members die at the hands of the being who is driven by anger and revenge, until the only person left

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How is the creature presented in chapters 11-16 of Frankenstein?

How is the creature presented in chapters 11-16 of 'Frankenstein'? The novel 'Frankenstein' was written in early the 1800s by Mary Shelley. The idea to write 'Frankenstein' came to Shelley in a dream but she wrote the story when she was challenged by her comrade Lord Byron whilst relaxing an Lake Geneva to write a gothic story. The novel 'Frankenstein' is a story about a young scientist who wanted to create life and a perfect creature. In fact, he creates a supernatural monster looking very little like a human. The plot of the story starts with a group of sailors travelling to the North Pole who then they came across Victor Frankenstein chasing after what he wanted to call the 'perfect living-being'. A while later the creature is out of reach and cannot be seen. That is when Frankenstein comes aboard the ship and tells his story from chapters 2-10 about creating life with electric shocks and his god-like ambitions. Then, he continues telling the sailors how everything went wrong as putting life in a creature resulted in many dead. After creating it he abandoned the creature. Then from chapters 11-16, the creature narrates his side of the story, which seems very different to Frankenstein's. Finally, the story ends with Frankenstein talking to the sailors about how he came to find them. Just as he finishes his story he is overtaken by death. The book is considered to be

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How is the creature presented in chapters 11-16 of Frankenstein?

How is the creature presented in chapters 11-16 of Frankenstein? Frankenstein, the novel, was authored by a 19 year old mistress, Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley wrote her renowned gothic novel during the era where romance was at its peak and science and maths started to make its way into the world. Supposedly the inspiration of her novel came to her in her dream. After having this dream she decided to make her dream come true in the form of a book, so she wrote the novel, Frankenstein, when she was relaxing at Lake Geneva on holiday with her husband, the famous poet Percy Shelley . The gothic novel Frankenstein is about a doctor who was manipulated by his obsessions and ambitions into creating life. When the obsessions and ambitions were overcome he realised the being he had created would cause his downfall. Chapters 11-16 are significant to the story because these chapters express the creature's point of view showing his side of the story. As the reader progresses through the novel, prior to chapter 11 the reader merely gets the opinions of Dr Frankenstein. These judgments are mad to be very negative and biased towards the creature. When Dr Frankenstein had finally achieved his life long ambition and after straining and putting countless time and effort into creating the being he wished, he presented his 'being' as being revolting and foul. There are many quotes from the

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HOW IS THE MONSTER PORTTRAYED IN CHAPTERS 11 TO 16 OF THE FRANKENSTEIN NOVEL?

FRANKENSTEIN HOW IS THE MONSTER PORTTRAYED IN CHAPTERS 11 TO 16 OF THE FRANKENSTEIN NOVEL? INTRODUCTION Frankenstein is a long novel written by Mary Shelley, a 19 year old girl who created Frankenstein out of her own nightmares. Mary started writing the novel in the 19th century. Mary was born in 1797 and grew up in troubled times. Her life was a peculiar one it was filled with demons and from this life came a terrifying tale which went from generation to generation horrifying adults and children all over the world. The source of the book was Switzerland and this is where Mary was living when she wrote the book. In Switzerland life was lived in an age of rapidly increasing scientific discovery. Biology was the most crucial subject as many lives were being lost and a solution to preventing this was deeply required. With all the discoveries people built up wild imaginations about bringing the dead to life with the complex use of magnetism and electricity. As a child Mary heard of scientists going out of the laws boundaries and trying to bring in-animate substances back to life. Mary had a father who she loved and admired, his name was William Godwin and he was a brilliant philosopher. Mary's mother could not be loved by her because she passed away after Mary's birth due to a great weakness of her body. Her name was Mary Wilson who was a famous feminist. After growing up

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Frankenstein - How is the monster portrayed in Chapters 11-16 of the novel?

Frankenstein How is the monster portrayed in Chapters 11-16 of the novel? Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley in the late 17th century which depicts a story about a scientist in Geneva who becomes obsessed with creating life. In his journey he comes across some notes of a professor in which specific notions on creating a living creature are contained. With these notes and his wild imagination Frankenstein puts together parts of corpses and revolutionises science by successfully creating a living creature. However, all is not merry, as Frankenstein realises his creation is disparate to human beings but that he has transformed what was once a dead corpse into a wretched monster. After abandoning his creation and later trying to kill it so as to cover up his unworthy work, Frankenstein effectively drives the monster out of his lab to fend for himself. At the end of Chapter 10 the reader is given Frankenstein's view of his creation; he says 'breathless horror and disgust filled my heart' at this very point we begin to see Frankenstein's dream to create life disappear and the reader is left feeling as horrified and disgusted as Frankenstein, towards the monster. Frankenstein continues his horrid reaction by stating 'a thing such as Dante could not have conceived' this phrase puts to light the actual horror of the monster because Frankenstein states that even Dante, a

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How is the Monster portrayed in chapters 11-16 of the novel 'Frankenstein'?

How is the Monster portrayed in chapters 11-16 of the novel 'Frankenstein'? The story 'Frankenstein' takes the reader through the daunting re-animation of a creature so beyond comprehension. This newborn-creation, degraded from birth yet mighty in spirit, plays out his painful life in search for what is known as true 'humanity' but is shown to ultimately fall to vengeance. Mary Shelley, the author of this novel, had lived days of misery and a life of a misfortunate nature. The figure of death had been a constant companion to her. Many members of her family including her mother and several children had all lost their lives to the deep sleep. Her fantasies delved deeper into the world of restoration and resurrection until she actually found a way to channel all these thoughts. And so was the birth of 'Frankenstein'. The chapters mentioned in the title (11-16) are significant when the subject of matter is focused on the creature. Details of the creature's behaviour, thoughts, feelings and actions are all concentrated upon here and so it is relevant to point to these chapters when referring to the creature. These are also the chapters in which the creature itself gives its own personal views of his miserable existence. From reading the former chapters, the reader's outlook of the creature is in great contrast to what is seen by the end of the story. Dr. Frankenstein

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Frankenstein Essay: How does Shelley present the creature between chapters 11 & 16?

Frankenstein Essay: How does Shelley present the creature between chapters 11 & 16? Having been rejected by Victor in chapter 10, despite pleading with him to "Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous" evokes pity in the reader. The monster seeks protection in the forest, and discovers how to use of fire but cannot make it. The humans he comes across react with fear because of the monsters vile appearance. Upon entering a peasants hut he is chased away by the villagers. The monster eventually finds shelter in a hovel adjoined to the De Lacey's cottage. Here we begin to see how innocent the monster really is. The people around him affect his psyche. As the demon has been rejected by his parent, he is without childhood and suffers from emotional deprivation because of this In chapter 12 the monster begins to learn from watching the De Lacey family. He has to learn all life theoretically through them. This resembles Shelley's own upbringing, she too knew the theory but not the affection. The creature begins to learn from the De Lacey's the basics of language from listening to them and begins to help them as he can by cutting wood for them during the night. He id in of their beauty and is filled with shame when he sees his own reflection in a pool of water. The discovery of his own ugliness is a mimic of Eve's discovery of her beauty in paradise lost. In chapter 13 an

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Who is the monster in Frankenstein? - Discuss with reference to chapters 5, 16 & 17.

Who is the monster in Frankenstein? - Discuss with reference to chapters 5, 16 & 17 * Discuss Shelley's use of language * Link to historical context * Refer to your knowledge of the novel as a whole There are many ideas as to who the monster really is in Frankenstein and in this essay I will explore who the monster is in the novel. The three main ideas are whether it is Victor, society itself or indeed the monster who is truly evil. Although Victor's creation is known as the Monster, by reading the novel it is clear that this isn't the full story. The beginning of chapter 5 is very important in the novel, as this is the chapter in which the Monster is brought to life, and we learn a lot about what the Monster is really like. We see from the word 'dreary' in the first sentence and 'dismally' a few lines down that misery is to come once the monster has been created. This is also shown by the choice of month - November. This is a winter month and makes the situation seem bleak. The Monster is described as having 'yellow skin', 'watery eyes', a shrivelled complexion' and 'straight black lips'. This description gives him a corpse-like appearance and illustrates the ugliness of the Monster. The appearance contrasts what the Monster is like. Shelley makes the Monster mutter 'inarticulate sounds' while a grin wrinkles his cheeks. This portrays the Monster as a big baby

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Young adults, aged 16-20, are becoming Increasingly desensitized to violence in films - investigate.

Young adults, aged 16-20, are becoming Increasingly desensitized to violence in films HYPOTHESIS I have chosen to investigate this hypothesis because of the growing number of violent films being produced by the film industry. Also the violence contained in these films is becoming increasingly graphic and sociological research suggests this rapid increase in these films has lead to more violent actions committed by 16-20 year olds, as it is this age range that watch these films the most. One of the reasons suggested for this is that they are becoming desensitized to the violent scenes, potentially making them more able to commit/witness violent acts more easily e.g. Nathan Martinez. Word count : 109 CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS My first context is the Newson Report (1995). This investigated the link between children's actions and video violence. It was stimulated by the murder of the child James Bulger by other children. The main findings of the report where: ? That violence and sadism are more easily available now via films, either in cinemas or on videos. ? This material leads to real life violence i.e. the James Bulger murder ? It includes excessive research that clearly links media violence, through heavy and prolonged viewing, to violent/aggressive behavior. Through my research I want to prove Newson's finding correct by producing research that supports the same point -

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