Monstrosity - Obviously, this theme pervades the entire novel, as the monster lies at the centre of the action. Eight feet tall and hideously ugly, the monster is rejected by society. However, his monstrosity results not only from his grotesque appearance but also from the unnatural manner of his creation, which involves the secretive animation of a mix of stolen body parts and strange chemicals. He is a product not of collaborative scientific effort but of dark, supernatural workings
The creature, just after creation, is considered to be an infant. For example, his creator, Victor Frankenstein, runs away in fear and abandons his “child”. An infant needs somebody to show love to it when it is first born. Frankenstein showed the exact opposite of love when he runs away. In addition, the creature is alone in the world. He has no friends to show kindness to or receive it from. He also has no way of knowing how to react towards others. Furthermore, the creature has no guidance in his life. Frankenstein ran away so he could not teach
Mary Shelly makes the act of creating the monster seem unnatural by saying ‘it was on a dreary night of November. This is the opening to chapter five and sets the scene because you can imagine the monster walking down a dark dirty ally way with mist and fog in the air and tramps on the floor. The first three things the monster does is remember how to speak, read and write he is able to remember how to do all of these things because he watches a family in the woods teach a foreign man how do all those things.
Mary shelly wrote this novel because when she was sixteen she was in an old, dark room with her friends and they dared each other to write the scariest bloodcurdling and frightening book ever written and Mary wrote the novel Frankenstein. Mary shelly was also encouraged to write by her father and probably her mother to if she hadn’t died, her husband would have also enticed her a bit more if he hadn’t drowned in addition to those to her husbands friend who was a writer encouraged her to write. She wrote the novel Frankenstein as a horror and subtitled it ‘The Modern Prometheus’. She wrote the novel while being overwhelmed by a series of calamities in her life. The worst of these were the suicides of her half-sister, Fanny Imlay, and Shelly's wife, Harriet. After the suicides, Mary and Percy reluctantly married. Fierce public hostility toward the couple drove them to Italy. Initially, they were happy in Italy, but their two young children died there. Mary never fully recovered from this trauma. Nevertheless, Shelley empowered Mary to live, as she most desired: to enjoy intellectual and artistic growth, love, and freedom.
It is proven in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that feelings and emotions are felt in any being; whether it be man, creature, or monster. Victor Frankenstein and his creation felt a lot of the same feelings. Only difference, one man, the other monster. Their relationship had many ups and downs. They grew to love and to hate.
When the story about Frankenstein creating a creature first began, Frankenstein was hoping for a new discovery. He was filled with “a kind of enthusiastic frenzy”. Frankenstein’s number one priority was to complete his creation. He loved his creation before it became to life. He was so caught up into his work he realized he had done nothing else, “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health”. Frankenstein was in love with the fact that he was creating a whole new being.
