What Events Change the Creature From Being Lonely and Sad to Angry and Murderous?

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Jaffar Alimazighi         10x4

WHAT EVENTS CHANGE THE CREATURE FROM BEING LONELY AND SAD TO ANGRY AND MURDEROUS?

Shelley started writing when she was 18 and the Frankenstein was published when she was 21. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life. Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, tells the story about a young doctor who experiments with bringing a corpse back to life. The death of his mother from Scarlet fever was an inspiration for him to create life so that he could make people immortal.

Frankenstein becomes obsessed with studying outdated theories about human life.  At the time science and discovery influenced Frankenstein. This involved electricity which fascinated him. Mary wrote this novel to show people what could happen if you went too far with technology such as bringing the dead back to life

Galvani was a physician. He was an anatomy professor at the University of Bologna. Luigi Galvani discovered the relationship of electricity to the impulses that control muscles through nerve tissue. He thought that animals had there own source of energy called animal electricity. Frankenstein and Galvani both try to bring the dead back to life. His work was controversial.  It was interesting because he thought that biological electricity was the vital fluid or life itself.

Aldini was a nephew of Galvani, who engaged in electrical research and “performances” in France and England. Aldini experimented a lot, including attempts like this to revive dead bodies. His work was interesting for a number of reasons. The first reason was because he treated mentally ill patients with shocks to the brain. The second reason was because he, performed experiments which make spasmodic movements on humans and ox heads.

The Prometheus myth first appeared in the late 8th-century.  He stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the mortals. He got punished by Zeus for his crime by having him tied to a rock while a great eagle ate his eye every day. It then grew back to be eaten the next day. Prometheus was punished for daring to do something sacred to the gods alone. This title is relevant as a subtitle to Shelly’s novel because they both have the same reasons what would happen if you go too far with developed technology such as creating life itself.  Mary Shelley was showing that victor Frankenstein would be punished for daring to try to create life, something only god should be able to do.

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In the following paragraphs I am going to talk about what events change the creature from being lonely to angry and murderous.  

One day the monster was wandering about in the cold and found a fire left by some beggars. He experiments with the fire.

“I was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.”

The monster learns how pain feels after putting his hand by the fire. We can tell this ...

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