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Frankenstein
It is often repeated, in defiance of the idea that science fiction is a masculine field and a masculine interest, that the first science-fiction writer was a teenage girl. This, if we read Mary...
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Frankenstein
This is an interesting and complex question. I would say that primarily, nature was not Victor Frankenstein's physician. You can see this in his powerful addiction to texts, and to discredited...
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Frankenstein
When Victor is about to bring the creature to life, we can see his thought process immediately leading up to that moment. He is very excited about his work, and is literally obsessed by it. Yet,...
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Frankenstein
This question has already been answered here on eNotes. Here is a link for you: http://www.enotes.com/frankenstein/q-and-a/how-did-justine-react-when-she-was-shown-williams-297276
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Frankenstein
The Monster comes to this conclusion after reading Milton's Paradise Lost. At first, he likens himself to Adam because he believes that like Adam, he was also the first created of his kind and...
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I have included a number of links below, starting with the enotes links on both the book and the writing style. http://www.enotes.com/frankenstein/style...
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I already answered this question for you on February 28. See the link below.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein displays a "fear of science" in that it can be read as a warning of what the scientific future could bring. In that sense, the novel expresses a nervousness about...
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Shelley shows that nature has a strong effect on Victor's sensitive feelings. For example, when Victor goes to Lausanne, en route to Geneva, his turbulent emotions are soothed by the sight of the...
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Frankenstein
There are a couple ways of looking at this question. The first (and most obvious) would be to think of Frankenstein's creature as Adam and Dr. Frankenstein himself as God. Frankenstein was...
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In the novel, the monster (or creature) is much more sympathetic because of his ability to talk. Speech humanizes him for us and allows him to express his emotional anguish to his creator, Victor...
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When Frankenstein beholds his diabolical creation, he is immediately terrified by what he sees. Although his experiment has been successful—in that he's created his very own creature—it's not quite...
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Frankenstein
The subject of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s long poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is the survivor of a disastrous voyage. He tells his story to a captive audience, the wedding guest. In Mary...
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The only advice I'd give for your thesis is to move "in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" elsewhere in your introduction paragraph. You may have just done it here for clarity, but if you phrase it that...
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The nineteenth century was an age, like our own, that was obsessed with the concept of progress in science and technology. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at a time when the industrial revolution...
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Frankenstein
Early in the novel, Mary Shelley establishes that both Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein have dedicated themselves to their education and have become exceptionally ambitious. In his early...
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Frankenstein
Justine Moritz is a servant in Frankenstein's family, although she is treated more like a member of the family. In Elizabeth's letter in chapter 6, Justine is described as "frank-hearted and happy"...
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Frankenstein
After Victor Frankenstein reanimates the piecemeal corpse, he immediately runs away, literally and figuratively. He finds his work to be an abomination and is disgusted by what he's done. He can't...
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The reference is to an episode in the famous Romantic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in which the title character kills an albatross, thus bringing great misfortune...
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Victor, at first, is excited to study science; his mind is of a rather scientific bent from his early childhood, and when he gets to college, he is ecstatic to get to study it (though his focus...
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Victor begins his adventures in his home of Geneva, Switzerland, and then he travels to Germany to attend university. It is here that he creates his "monster" and here where he falls terribly ill...
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The creature Victor creates is initially full of love and kindness. He wants nothing more than the acceptance and love of other human beings, such as his creator, Frankenstein. But Victor rejects...
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Victor considers abandoning his second creation before he begins it. He shrinks from the idea of creating more horror and barbarity. He tells the reader at the beginning of chapter 18 that he...
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Frankenstein
The character of Victor Frankenstein is complicated in part because he did not fully think through the consequences of his project to bring a person to life. There are several components of the...
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Within the frame of Walton’s letters, the text is narrated by Victor Frankenstein. All impressions of the creature are provided by Victor, who provides only a brief description and a few reasons...
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Mary Shelley characterizes Elizabeth by way of a striking simile. Victor says that her "saintly soul" shines "like a shrine-dedicated lamp" in their peaceful home. Victor clearly has a very high...
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Victor is so horrified by the creature he has created, which looks to him like a mummified monster, that he doesn't want anyone else to know about it. When Clerval asks him why he seems so thin and...
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Frankenstein
Because eNotes educators are permitted to respond to only one question at a time, this answer will offer you a response to your first question. One way to approach a thesis statement for an...
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Although Victor says that his parents provided nothing but a loving atmosphere for him and that he and Elizabeth enjoyed only "harmony" in their relationship, he admits that he personally has a...
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Frankenstein
Writing in the early nineteenth century, Mary Shelley expressed many of the fears and hopes that English people were experiencing. The Enlightenment emphasis on rationality informed the popular...
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In Frankenstein, Robert Walton dreams of great accomplishments through his exploration. In his first letter to his sister, he asks, “dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great...
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Frankenstein is almost the classic example of a Gothic novel, as it incorporates most, if not all, of the literary elements normally associated with the genre. First and foremost, the book explores...
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Elizabeth Lavenza is Victor Frankenstein's fiancée. A sweet and gentle creature, she really couldn't be more different in personality from the ambitious, driven, and somewhat amoral Victor....
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Victor explains finding a work of Cornelius Agrippa in an inn where his family stayed during a holiday to the baths near Thonon. One day, the weather was bad, so the family was forced to stay...
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Horror has a long history, and in the contemporary world, it’s a huge industry (just think of the many scary films and shows produced each year). You can be sure this means the genre is open to...
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Frankenstein
The answer to this question is subjective and will vary from person to person, but I find the creature—the one that Victor created—the most relatable character. The creature is relatable because...
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The term itself couldn't have influenced Shelley, who wrote the first version of Frankenstein in 1818. Francis Galton is credited with coining the term "eugenics" in 1883, and the movement really...
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Both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go present conflicts between science and humanity. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein infamously creates a living being out of...
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Like Victor, Walton is full of ardent hopes and ambitions. Robert Walton's are to find and explore new lands in the Arctic regions of the earth. As he writes to his sister, he wishes to "triumph"...
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Mary Shelley’s novel falls squarely within Romantic preoccupations about the solitary nature of the human soul, including the creative spirt or genius that drives people. These concerns are...
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Mary Shelley was considered to be one of the foremost writers of Romanticism, and her most famous work is no exception. It does at many points, however, flip the ideals of Romanticism on their...
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After the death of Victor's younger brother, William, the conviction of Justine for William's murder, and Justine's subsequent execution for her supposed crime, the Frankenstein family is...
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The creature tells Victor of all that has happened to him since he was created. The creature sought love, but met with only horror and rejection because of his appearance. When even the good De...
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At the beginning of Frankenstein, the creature is an innocent being that simply craves affection and wants to learn the ways of the world, but by the end of the novel, he has transformed into a...
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The creature can observe the De Laceys through a chink in a boarded up window. First, he learns about language, realizing the sounds they make are a form of communication. By listening to them, he...
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The monster is crucial in Frankenstein for several reasons: He symbolizes the scientific achievements of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein has a brilliant mind and spends about two years in...
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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the recurring symbol of fire, called a motif, to illuminate both the dangers of too much knowledge as well as the dual nature of humanity. Human beings are...
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In chapter 8, Justine is tried, convicted, and finally executed for killing William, although she is innocent of the crime. The Gothic is the dark and uncanny side of life. It is "unheimlich" or...
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Frankenstein
The creature lists a number of his grievances before he declares his "inextinguishable hatred" toward his creator, Victor Frankenstein. He says that he is "malicious" because he is "miserable"; he...
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein, employs many rhetorical strategies to craft a chilling tale that has delighted and warned audiences for many generations. The structure of the novel is an...
