Mary shelly wrote Frankenstein in the 18th century, it was a widely read novel that brought about the ideas of rejection, prejudice and isolation.

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Frankenstein

Mary shelly wrote Frankenstein in the 18th century, it was a widely read novel that brought about the ideas of rejection, prejudice and isolation.

Written in the new scientific age, where there was a thirst for knowledge in this area, people wanted to break new boundaries, open new doors and explore the human body and anatomy.

There is also no doubt about it that Mary Shelly’s sad life and her experiences of death inspired her to write this story, and to share her feelings of injustice and reality’s inequality through another form: Frankenstein’s creation!

Mary Shelly was exceptionally young when she wrote this novel, 19 infact, but yet she had experienced more death and injustice at that age, maybe more than we will ever experience in our whole lifetime.

        Victor Frankenstein was not a mad scientist, screaming the words ‘its alive! Its alive!’  how Hollywood would portray him, but a mere scientist with huge ambitions on how to bring the dead back to life. But this is where the trouble starts, should the dead be left to be dead? Society was not ready for this creature and neither was Frankenstein. Perhaps so caught up in what he was doing he did not stop to think about how the creature’s appearance would turn out and his rejection lead to all the others.  Victor clearly did not think about the repercussions his creation could and indeed would bring. But still he shunned the creature out of his home and onto the streets.

        Banished onto the cruel streets of Ingelstaadt the creature encounters some pitiless citizens that are aghast and angered at his presence. Thinking he has Cholera he is hit and chased out of the village, forced to flee into the woods.

It is in the woods that he comes across Felix and his family taking refuge in a small cabin. The monster is in awe of the family and desires and longs to be accepted and loved by them but he chooses not to show his face, instead he watches them from a safe distance. The family are aware of his presence as he helps them with crops by doing it for them and leaves it at their doorstep at night. The family refer to him as the ‘good sprit of the woods’.

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It is in the barn of the house that the creature discovers he has Frankenstein’s journal, he teaches himself to read and learns of Frankenstein’s disgust and fear of his creation i.e. him. The creature has started to feel at one with the family and when he sees that they are in trouble he comes to their aid at once, this is a mistake!

The family is horrified and Felix beats and hits him out of the cabin. Once in the woods again the monster starts to ponder what he has done he starts to believe he has acted ...

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