Prose study; Frankenstein.

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Laura Hitchinson                                                       13th December ’02

Prose study; Frankenstein.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley creates both sympathy and repulsion for the monster. She does this because of her influences in her like. One of her main influences is her father, William Godwin, a thinker and a writer. He believed, and you will see this in the novel ‘Frankenstein’ that all humans are born good and are good by nature and it is only society and the way that they are treated by society that makes them bad or evil. Mary Shelley strongly agreed with and believed in this and it comes across very strongly in Frankenstein. She creates sympathy and repulsion for the monster by making him a complex character. She makes the monster into a complex character by making him into a complex character. She makes the monster into a complex character by mixing his inhuman monstrous characteristics with very human needs and wants. This means that although we are repulsed by his looks and the way he is portrayed we also feel sympathy for him as we can see ourselves needing things such as shelter, food and warmth.

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        The first time that we feel repulsion to the monster is when he is firsat born and Frankenstein describes him for the first time:

“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.”

This makes us conjure up a mental image of the monster in our ...

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