Frankenstein’s experiment was important to Mary because it was Mary wanted to do all her life; conquer death.
The novel is written in the 1st person to make it look like Frankenstein’s series of events like a diary. The setting of chapter 5 is where Frankenstein has completed the monster and hates his creation so much. Frankenstein gives a vivid image of what is creation looks like; he shows all emotions in this chapter. Frankenstein is the main character in this chapter because it’s all his feelings and emotions. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health”, I feel this is effective because it shows how bad he feels towards and about his creation.
Mary Shelley shows how Frankenstein had dreamed of this nearly all of his life but that all goes wrong; “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”, this emphasizes his disgust with the creature and himself.
Mary Shelley describes the creature in a lot of detail to give a vivid image of what Frankenstein has created and that some things of Frankenstein’s creation were life like but others made it the monster it was; “His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -- Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriance’s only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips”.
Chapter 5 starts with Frankenstein anxious for his creation to come to life then it all goes down hill; “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”, this shows that one thing and everything goes wrong.
I feel chapter 5 is an effective chapter because it shows how even something you have spent 2 years creating you can end up hating with passion, it is a very descriptive chapter this emphasizes the fact that Frankenstein wishes he hadn’t created the monster and how something can look so beautiful but yet be so ugly inside!
