The use of the first person narrative run all the way throughout the novel. At first you do not know who is speaking in the beginning because it is not known to you, until you read on. This was a style Shelley used throughout the book. I think this was because she wanted her audience to feel as though the characters were confining in them, this gives the audience a chance to feel more involved with the book. The first person narrative brings a feeling of presence to the audience, as certain situations occur in the book it makes you feel as though they did not happen in the past but were part of you in the near present of your reading.
The use of synonyms was repetitive throughout the book this is a style to help explain or describe certain activities or characteristics. For example ‘Six years had elapsed, passed as a dream’. Synonyms help you to have a pictorial understanding of a description its helps your imagination come to reality. Shelley used Synonyms so that the audience would be able to explore their imaginations and try to expand them. The novel gives off a negative feeling, it forms tragedy that cannot be reversed. The language is very negative but this not only from when the monster is born, but before negativity fulfilled Frankenstein’s dreams about this certain piece of art. The language in the novel had to be negative; a creature that was born to a man by his hands was disowned because fear. Negativity is what the novel was created on, even though there was positive parts within the novel, these hopeful events were built on bad sources that caused them to evolve to tragedies. The negative emotions were created not only because of rejection and isolation that mainly occurs in the book, but because of the time the book was written in this plays a big part in the emotions that take place. This is because Shelley did not only base her book on fantasies but also the facts of the people in them days because there was a lot of negativity in them times. Unknown events and changes were not excepted or accepted.
The society at the time had many expectations they were not welcoming, they were blunt, selfish, not educated and biased. The society was not open to new things what they were known to, was enough for them. Unless someone of a higher authority had an opinion in something new they would not accept.
Shelley hoped to portray that even though Frankenstein was born as a baby his creation was born in the same way by blood and water just like a baby. Even though one was known as a human they both shared the same things, they both seeked for the same things in life. They may have had different characteristics but they were similar in a way. I think Shelley wanted to open her audience’s eyes and show them that human cannot take the role of God and not carry out his full responsibilities. Even though the monster features were dismantled and he was hideous he was the same as his father, when hurt he seeked for revenge just as Frankenstein, but if Frankenstein just accepted his baby he would not have lost but gained a lot more. Frankenstein and the monster both reacted on fear and in the end it brought them together even though it may have been to late.
Frankenstein was born into a wealthy loving family, that was respected and had a high level of class in society. He had a good childhood a happy environment and a strong body in the community gave him encouragement to make something of himself. As a idealistic student of natural philosophy he wanted to know and learn about the unknown, but too much curiosity made him overstep certain boundaries.
The Monster was born by the hands of his creator. He was born into a cruel world. The monstrous creation though tender-hearted and gentle in nature inspires fear in those who meet him must hide away from society. Increasingly lonely and isolated, the monster becomes embittered and cruel, taking a hideous revenge on his creator.
The background of the story was based on the unfinished work of a professor that Frankenstein agreed to complete his work finding the secret of giving life to matter. The meaning of the book shows you how taking life and death in your own matters brings consequences that cannot be reversed. Frankenstein’s purpose was to bring live to a non living body. ‘I worked hard for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body’. He had doubts before with creating such a being, but his purpose was to be able to get credit for being the man that was ‘capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.’
Frankenstein was excited about the creation that he had been dreaming of completing for so long, but the outcome was not what he expected. When Frankenstein’s creation was at full completion he did not want to be held responsible for such a thing. ‘I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart’. Frankenstein could not believe what he had created; he felt disgust that he did not feel any desire for this ‘child’, that he saw as a monster. Frankenstein was in such a state as time went past his fear grew, ‘I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view’.
Frankenstein was happy to involve himself in this outstanding experiment, with much research and love for this subject and desire to learn about such a secret to create and bring into the world such an existence, Frankenstein was proud with his decision to go through with his discovery. ‘This discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which, I had been progressively led to it were oliberated, and I beheld on the result’. He had been encouraged from the beginning by his professor, M.Waldam ‘I am happy to have gained a disciple’, were the words of this man that Frankenstein looked up to ‘I have no doubt or your success’. Frankenstein’s work was so important to him it was his pride ‘my sole occupation’. As time went past he had his doubts and thoughts and views that held him back from proceeding with his work. ‘I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it’. Thinking about creating a being which implied parts of dead people and bringing him to life somehow excused Frankenstein from the subject but his imagination kept getting the better of him. He was encouraged to hope that his present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success. Nor could Frankenstein consider ‘magnitude’ and ‘complexity’ of his plan as any argument of its ‘impracticability’. It was with these feelings Frankenstein began the creation of his human being. He had so much determination; no one could stop him his feelings about going through with his dream was not changeable. ‘A new species would bless me as its creator’
When the creature was finally completed Frankenstein had realised what he had created, but because of fear and shock, he felt devastated he felt disappointed and digested with himself and the being that stood there before his very own eyes. ‘By my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow’.
Frankenstein creates his monster by assembling parts of dead bodies and activating the creature with electricity. The monster, which has no name in the book, is actually a gentle, intelligent creature. However, everyone fears and mistreats him because of his hideous appearance. Frankenstein rejects the monster and refuses to create a mate for him. The monster's terrible loneliness drives him to seek revenge by murdering Frankenstein's wife, brother, and best friend. Frankenstein dies while trying to track down and kill the monster, who disappears into the Arctic at the end of the novel.
The monster felt confused and
