How effective is Mary Shelley's account of the Monster's awakening in chapter 5 of Frankenstein?
Why is the experiment significant and what are the consequences?
Mary Shelley was exposed to lots of weird, off the wall ideas. Her father William Godwin, and his colleagues had experimented Galvanism. (Passing an electric current through the limbs of a dead frog). Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th of august 1797. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, was also an author. She wrote 'A vindication of the rights of women' a feminist piece encouraging women to think and act for themselves. Wollstonecraft died giving birth to Mary, so she had very early experiences of death. This book is a gothic novel about the dark side of life, and is subtitled the modern Prometheus, because Prometheus tried to trick the gods and Frankenstein did the same.
Victor Frankenstein is the main narrator of the story. He is a passionate and very obsessive man. In his youth, he was enthusiastic about natural philosophy. He attended University in Ingolstat with his good friend Clerval, leaving his adopted sister Elizabeth, his father, William and his younger brothers Ernst and William in Geneva. At University, he became interested in life and how it was created, and why. He looked to death and decay for answers. He begins an awful quest to create man made life. He visits charnel houses and cemeteries to find body parts for his creation. He uses the power of electricity to make it come to life. He was expecting the creature to be beautiful because he had made such a great effort to carefully select each body part, but it turned out to be a nightmare, he realised he had made a huge mistake, but it was too late. Victor pays for his actions because everyone he loved died and eventually he paid the ultimate price.
Why is the experiment significant and what are the consequences?
Mary Shelley was exposed to lots of weird, off the wall ideas. Her father William Godwin, and his colleagues had experimented Galvanism. (Passing an electric current through the limbs of a dead frog). Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th of august 1797. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, was also an author. She wrote 'A vindication of the rights of women' a feminist piece encouraging women to think and act for themselves. Wollstonecraft died giving birth to Mary, so she had very early experiences of death. This book is a gothic novel about the dark side of life, and is subtitled the modern Prometheus, because Prometheus tried to trick the gods and Frankenstein did the same.
Victor Frankenstein is the main narrator of the story. He is a passionate and very obsessive man. In his youth, he was enthusiastic about natural philosophy. He attended University in Ingolstat with his good friend Clerval, leaving his adopted sister Elizabeth, his father, William and his younger brothers Ernst and William in Geneva. At University, he became interested in life and how it was created, and why. He looked to death and decay for answers. He begins an awful quest to create man made life. He visits charnel houses and cemeteries to find body parts for his creation. He uses the power of electricity to make it come to life. He was expecting the creature to be beautiful because he had made such a great effort to carefully select each body part, but it turned out to be a nightmare, he realised he had made a huge mistake, but it was too late. Victor pays for his actions because everyone he loved died and eventually he paid the ultimate price.
