Chapter five is a very important part of "Frankenstein" because it best describes the monsters appearance and how he was created.

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Look at the significance of chapter five to the novel as a whole. Focus on the relevance and effect of the writer’s use of language to describe setting, character and what it shows about social and historical influences

The novel “Frankenstein” is about a scientist name Victor Frankenstein who decides to create life using body parts and electricity, but the experiment goes terribly wrong. The deeper meaning of this novel was the social morals and the fact God should be the only designer on life. The novel was written when Mary Shelley and her husband and a good friend were on holiday in lake Geneva. On a stormy day they challenged each other to write the best horror story. Mary’s story won the competition, so this encouraged her to continue creating the novel in London. The social context of Frankenstein was to encourage scientists not to meddle with the laws of nature, and that al medical advances should not cross the boundary of creating life.

Chapter five is a very important part of “Frankenstein” because it best describes the monsters appearance and how he was created. Chapter five was also another important part of the novel because it’s a crucial turning point in the novel because the story goes wrong from there e.g. the monster is created, Victor is thrown into a fit. At the end of chapter five the monster has ran away and Victor wakes from his fit, Victor thought his monster had died because of cholera though. Although Victor is constantly running away from his monster, the impact is that it’s a simile that Victor is always running away from his problems and this selfishness led to the death of him and many other loved ones. “like the one who on a lonely road doth walk in fear and dread and having once turned around walks on and turns no more his head; because he knows a frightening fiend doth close behind him tread”. This quote also fits in with Victors dream on Elizabeth’s death “I thought I saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt, delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with death” this quote explains future happenings when the monster looms over him “he held up the curtain… one hand stretched out” symbolizes the monster will always follow him.  

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Dr Frankenstein was an interesting character which showed the signs of insanity. The personality trait that stood out the most was his obsessive nature “I had spent the last two years hard at work”, it shows he was dedicated enough to spend 2 years of his life creating a monster. He was also very impulsive/unpredictable “heartless laughter, frightened and astonished him”, he was laughing at his own catastrophe. Victor was also very paranoid, Intelligent, a fantasist, lonely, misguided and arrogant which all went together to make Victor.

Chapter 5 uses a lot of “Pathetic Fallacy” to help ...

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