In my assignment I am going to discuss the beliefs and attitudes of the time that Frankenstein was written and also discuss th

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Danielle Parker                                                                                                                   

How does Mary shelly make us sympathise

With the creature?

In my assignment, I am going to discuss the beliefs and attitudes of the time in which Frankenstein had been written and discuss the ways in which Mary Shelly made us sympathise with the creature. In 1818, novels had been written for entertainment, as the public of that time would read as they had no other entertainment but this was for only the upper class people. The upper middle class were the only people who had access to education and they were the only ones who were literate.

At the beginning of the 19th century, biology was the new science. People believed that electricity and magnetism could bring dead beings back to life. An example of this is Galvani, in 1802 showed that if you allow electricity to flow through the body of a frog its legs would twitch and it would appear to use life like qualities. An other example of this is that of Aldini, he used the idea of attaching a battery to a dead human being. Surging the energy through it would contort the body and would begin to have movement this is like our defibrillation that we use now. The society of Mary Shelly’s time had an interest in the supernatural and terror horror theme that was in Frankenstein. Frankenstein also involved Gothic Romance, A Gothic novel or Romance is when you use dark terror and death and gothic settings. Frankenstein has many of these techniques that include graveyards moonlight, dissecting rooms that were used to create an eerie monstrous atmosphere.

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I am going to discuss the ways in which victor becomes too obsessive in the creation of his creator to in the end to leave him abandoned and to make him feel unwanted. He shows this by going away from his family and just concentrating on the creature instead of his own family and wife to be Elizabeth. He finds away so he must off known that this was uncalled for and in the way Mary shelly wrote this it makes us think that Victor must of known, it would be inevitable, it would all end badly. ...

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