"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly is about a man's desire to challenge death and to create life but he finds that the thing he craves only would bring him grief and he soon reconsiders what he had asked for.

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“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly is about a man’s desire to challenge death and to create life but he finds that the thing he craves only would bring him grief and he soon reconsiders what he had asked for.

At the start of the story Frankenstein thought that the monster he creates would be helpful to mankind but after the monster had come to life he talks about 2 years of his life with no rest o concern about his health and al he could create was a body of nothing and that it was a total disaster and a catastrophe.

When he was creating the monster he thought that he was creating a thing of beauty because he thought he had used parts, which would have made it beautiful, but after it was created he states “ Beautiful!!…Great god”. This shows that he was being sarcastic and shocked at the way the monster turned out and that it was the complete opposite. It shows his anger and outrage at the monster’s face, which was all yellow with its veins sticking out and dried up cheeks.

The setting at the moment of creation is a dark place with the equipment scattered every were and the rain shows that Mary Shelley was trying to give the impression to the reader that something bad was going to happen. So the whole scene openes with a dismal atmosphere.

Even an almost sexual feeling was introduced into this novel as after creating the monster, Frankenstein was breathless and the way he was acting when he was creating the monster also shows he was desiring the monster like a man would desire a woman and it shows that he craved the monster and really wanted it.

He is always calling the monster a “wretch” this shows that he treats the monster as nothing, barely a worthless scrap of humanity and something that you would just pity.

Overall there is nothing positive ever said about the monster as he is always talking badly about the monster by repeating aggressive words like wretch at the monster. This has the effect to make the audience feel sorry for the monster as he was created out of no will but a desire that Frankenstein had but after being created he is treated like dirt, considered something that is never desirable and considered a living thing. It shows the complete opposite to what a person would feel to a new born baby as the creature is much like a new born baby as they both are newly born and newly created but the difference was that a new born baby would be praised, loved and cared for but the creature got no treatment but treated the complete opposite as he was disposed of and disregarded.

When the creature was created it should have been shown love and affection then its attitudes would have been very different however the first thing the creature had received when it just been created was hatred and it had been called things such as “wretch” and from this the monster’s first emotions would have been hatred for humans.

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After he creates the monster Frankenstein becomes ill. He doesn’t meet the monster again until chapter 6 when he is out on his travels just after he had recovered from his long-term illness and on his journey he receives a letter telling him that his brother had been killed.

The way that the scene is set for the meeting between Frankenstein and the monster was the atmosphere was “completely dark”. I think that the scene was set like this to reveal the emotions that are running through Frankenstein as he presumes that it was the monster that ...

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