Consider with whom we feel the most sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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Consider with whom we feel the most sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

"One to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart" this was Mary Shelley's intention when she created Frankenstein the definitive gothic novel .Though this was unheard of for a woman writing in 1816 she did just that. Influenced by the events around her, the new scientific developments and social unrest conveyed through her "depiction of Victor and through the monster she reveals an outraged awareness of social injustice and a passionate desire for reform." Throughout the novel we are given an image of monster and creator this is conveyed through the central characters. Shelley presents a tale of gothic horror in which we are given opportunities to feel sorry for both main characters; yet we are inclined to feel more sympathy for the monster who after all is a victim of a man essentially playing God.

Throughout the novel Shelley plays with our psyche and sympathies as reader, but it is clear that the monster deserves our pity more than Victor. Victor was given a wonderful loving upbringing and was clearly a spoilt child "I