Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and looking at how she manipulates the reader to favour the creature and feel sorry for him and make the reader feel anger towards Victor

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I will be writing about Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and looking at how she manipulates the reader to favour the creature and feel sorry for him and make the reader feel anger towards Victor.

Mary Shelly was very interested in three things in her life time and she shows these I her novel using the characters for example: Good Parenting, she gives Victor great parents as they loved and adored him but Victor goes against what he said in earlier life and he runs away from, what you could call his son, so therefore the creature becomes evil. Also Mary Shelly was interested in the origins of evil; she believed in Jean Jacque Rousseau’s theories of man being born innocent but becomes corrupted by his treatment by society and also she was interested in his theory of the “noble savage” which goes “man is born free and is everywhere in chains” she also uses the theme in the novel as the creature is innocent at first but becomes evil because of how he is treated. Mary is also interested in the power of nature compared to man as she talks about the most extreme places e.g. the Alps and the North Pole and these are where the creature meets Victor.  

In the time of Mary Shelly’s life there were many scientific happenings as electricity was a new and major thing and there were many experiments happening using dead animals and Human Corpses to try to bring them back to life and in one of them a frog twitched and people thought it was alive for a few seconds. Also there was a Human Corpse electrocuted and also twitched but an eye had opened as well. This is where Victor receives the idea to bring something to life (the creature).

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Frankenstein is a gothic novel; I know this because of the settings and themes that Mary Shelly uses in the book e.g. the crematoriums that Victor visit and also the theme of revenge pursuit of knowledge, ambition and revenge. It is also a romantic genre as it was written in the romantic period (1790 – 1840) and also contains romantic interests for example the novel contains extreme power of nature compared to man and also intense feelings the creature uses when he is talking to victor.

In chapter 5 Victor is describing the creature in a bad way ...

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