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

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Look at the significance of chapter five to the novel as a whole. Focus on the relevance and effect of

Writer’s use of language to describe setting, character and what it shows about social and historical influences.

Frankenstein was written in the 1816 and was published in 1818, it was written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. When she first published the novel she put her name as anonymous because women didn’t write horror novels in those days.  The novel is about a scientist who put ambition before consequences. Victor Frankenstein, the scientist in the novel, learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, with terrible and horrific results.

Chapter 5 is an extremely crucial moment in the novel, because the monster is brought to life. From then on, the novel becomes a gothic horror. The monster wants to seek revenge when his inventor runs away, after he sees what the monster looks like. The reason Victor Frankenstein runs away is because his creation is not anything he expected, “unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room” .He wanted something spectacular and beautiful. When the monster had realized what Frankenstein had done he did

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Everything he could to get revenge on him.

In chapter five we start to see a horrible side to Frankenstein, as this is when the monster is brought to life Frankenstein shows that he is a but really he is actually scared and bitterly disappointed by what he has done because the monster he has made could have been wonderful, but turned out horrible and he is really disappointed. ‘’ breathless horror filled my heart’’. This is the quote that shows how upset and horrified he is by this creation. The reader is shocked by the prejudice of his reaction, ...

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