Our feelings towards the monster change dramatically during the novel. At first when the monster leaves Victors lab, the public hates him. He is severally abused by the society. He is then forced to hide in the forest. During this sequence of events we feel sympathy for the monster because of the way he is treated. However, our feeling quickly change when he meets the De lacy family. The reader feels like the monster has a home even though he does not have his own home as he lives in the barn. Later in the novel, our feelings do change when he kills Elizabeth and Victor’s little son.
The reader’s opinion changes from good to bad during the novel. The monster’s actions affect our opinions. A key element was the murder of Elizabeth and her son. This is true because we think the monster is an evil killing machine that has to be stopped. This opinion is reversed later in the novel when he asks for a partner. The reader feels sympathy and believes the monster is lonely.
The setting of the play affects the characters and the scenes at which they are set. In a scene in chapter 12, the monster is telling his feelings about life to Victor. At this point, the weather changes to become cloudy, stormy and rainy. This tells us that the scene is negative and that the monster will proclaim his feelings about being bought into this cruel world.
Later in the play, Victor had been chasing the monster in revenge for his losses. This scene is set in the cold arctic. This makes the reader feel sympathy and that isolation is a problem for the monster. It also tells the reader that something bad is about to happen.
However, later in the play we do feel happy for the monster when he is living with the De lacy family. The weather is bright sunshine and the monster feels happy. This feeling is renewed when the monster completes his weekly deed of the chores that have to be done in the farm.
The plot of the novel is very well told and it contains twists and turns at every corner. The plot refines the storyline as when the monster is chasing Victor. When the monster is chasing Victor, he appears at different times to create cliffhangers. This in the scene when Victor swears to kill the monster for the murders. When the monster appears, there is lots of tension created which disrupts the atmosphere and the plot.
The themes in ‘Frankenstein’ affect the novel. Discovery and desire affect the novel because Victor is prepared to go to all lengths to make the monster. Victor is driven by the fact of making the monster. Frankenstein is driven to the extreme by his unwilling desire. This affects the reader because it provides entertainment for the reader as Frankenstein struggles to make the monster.
The ambition shown in the novel affects the reader. This is the ambition of the Frankenstein and Walton. Both men are attempting to become world-renowned scientists by making the find of the century. By trying to find the greatest discovery of all time, they could have almost killed themselves. This was seen when Frankenstein almost got killed by the monster just after the monster was born.
The revenge factor in the novel brings the true side of Frankenstein. Victor is torn between staying or following the monster to the end of the world. However, at the end Frankenstein becomes as evil as the monster. This happens when Frankenstein is chasing the monster. He becomes evil because of his revenge factor.
The symbolism in the novel is evident. Imprisonment affects the monster as he is trapped in the De lace family. The monster is trapped in the De Lacy’s home because he is scared of how they will react if they find out he is living there. The readers also are influenced by this as they feel sympathy for the monster because he cannot go out and meet people. The reader later also feels happy for the monster when he meets the grandfather of the family.
The monster also symbolises our own inner ugliness. This is the way that we treat people. The monster symbolises this because the monster treats people badly after his mistreatment. The monster treats people unlawfully because he feels he can. The monster feels like this because of how the public rejected him as part of their society.
