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Frankenstein
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the creature learns a great deal from observing the DeLacey family. The creature learns what a family is, how they share each other's company, and how they support...
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Frankenstein
Victor says more than once as he recounts his story that he is a victim of fate. For example, he tells Robert Walton, "nothing can alter my destiny." He also says that Destiny was too potent, and...
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Frankenstein
There are several reasons that Mary Shelley provides the frame story in which Victor Frankenstein’s tale is set, and makes the character of Robert Walton the person with whom Victor shares it. One...
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Frankenstein
In ancient Greek mythology Prometheus was a Titan—a pre-Olympian god. As well as creating humanity out of clay he was also renowned for defying the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humans....
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Frankenstein
There are certainly ways in which one might argue that Frankenstein's monster lacks conventional heroic attributes. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster is willing to kill...
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Frankenstein
In the book, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, some iconic moments occur, such as Victor's creation of the creature, his neglect of the creature, and Victor’s refusal to accept responsibility for his...
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein has destroyed the bride he had built as a companion for the creature. Now the creature wants Victor to experience the same pain and loneliness that has befallen him. In chapter six of...
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Frankenstein
Immediately following the moment when the creature first comes to life, Victor's dream of nearly two years, he says that "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled...
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Frankenstein
There is actually a curious split in regard to how both Victor and the Monster react to isolation in Frankenstein. Victor isolates himself from the rest of society because of his obsession to...
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Frankenstein
In chapter eight, of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor is speaking with Elizabeth and Justine about Justine's guilt as she awaits to be hung for the murder of William Frankenstein. Victor,...
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Frankenstein
Based on what occurs in Chapters 1–5 of Frankenstein, it would make sense to analyze Victor's character development from childhood to the time surrounding his creation of his living being. Victor...
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Frankenstein
In the original novel, and across multiple media platforms over the last two hundred years—theatrical or cinematic adaptations involving many diverse character interpretations—the creature has...
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Frankenstein
In volume 3, chapter 5, Victor is more plagued by guilt and anxiety than vengeance. He is still reeling from the double-death of William (murdered by the Creature) and Justine (hanged for the...
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Frankenstein
Although I almost always find knowledge to be beneficial, in this particular case, reading Paradise Lost seems to set the creature on an even more vindictive and destructive path than he has been...
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Both Frankenstein and Never Let Me Go, though separated by nearly two centuries in publication, deal with unethical or irresponsible uses of technology. Also, both Mary Shelley and Kazuo Ishiguro...
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You can find the answer to this in chapter 11 of Frankenstein, in which Victor Frankenstein's creation, generally known as the Creature, begins to tell the story of his own existence and how he has...
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I'll tackle a few of these traits to help get you started, and hopefully you can use that information to find other quotes for the remaining descriptors. One of the greatest quotes of...
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Safie's mother, a Christian, was abducted by the Turks; her father, a Muslim, was beguiled by the mother and married her. Safie's mother secretly instructed Safie in the tenets of the Christian...
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Frankenstein
The character of Victor Frankenstein is deeply flawed. He tends to blur lines in every aspect of his life, including his desires, wishes, and even his relationships, based on his affection towards...
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The fact that Victor Frankenstein has created a seven-foot tall creature out of dead body parts, a creature that is quite willing -- eventually -- to kill and frame others if it suits his purposes,...
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In chapter 6, Victor responds to his cousin Elizabeth’s letter. His recovery includes spending time with his old friend Henri Clerval, with whom he is reading the orientalists (whose work he finds...
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In both Frankenstein and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the protagonist commits a crime against God. Victor Frankenstein oversteps his bounds and takes on the role of God when he creates human...
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This answer will respond to a combination of the first two questions above. As evidenced by the behavior of Frankenstein's creature, a state of feeling ostracized can lead to feelings of...
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Frankenstein
There are various settings in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. At the beginning of the story, the frame narrative—narrated by Captain Walton—takes place on board a ship which is en route to the North...
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While he witnesses the trial of Justine, who is accused of the murder of little William Frankenstein, Victor knows that she is innocent and that his brother was killed by the monster. He says,...
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Captain Walton is eager to visit such a hostile environment because he is desirous of making some great discovery that will benefit the human race and win him fame and glory. He says in his first...
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I think that Victor Frankenstein’s reactions to his creation as it comes to life epitomize his instant regrets at his attempts to play God. These quotations come from Chapter 5....
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On one level, I think that a clear argument could be made that nature is significant in Shelley's work because it represents a restorative condition. Nature is equated with restoring that which was...
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When Victor returns home to Geneva upon learning of the death of his youngest brother, William, the gates to the city are closed and he must pass the night outside the town. He notes that a storm...
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Please note: The post contains numerous questions. The eNotes Homework Help policy allows for one question per post. This answer primarily addresses the first and last questions. Also, page numbers...
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Despite the fact that Frankenstein was written by a woman (Mary Shelley), women's voices are largely absent in the text. The story is a frame narrative told by Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein,...
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This is a defensible thesis topic and a table of contents could cover the ways the creature becomes gradually more aware of his rejection by his creator and his society and how these various...
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The first of these quotations is spoken by Victor. He has just returned to Geneva, having learned that his brother, William, has been murdered. In the light momentarily provided by lightning,...
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I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will work at...
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Victor Frankenstein is (arguably) the protagonist of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Robert Walton is the captain of an exploratory ship, and the narrator for the beginning and end of the novel....
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In Frankenstein, the monster is originally good-hearted, wanting to be accepted by the people around him. After many negative experiences with society and his creator, Victor Frankenstein, his...
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One could suppose that a key to helping Victor Frankenstein's creation receive acceptance into polite society would have been for the young, emotionally and intellectually immature (although...
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There are many main events in this book. For starters, how about Victor creates the monster. Victor learns that his brother has been murdered. Victor finds the monster and listens to his story....
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Resonating with the credo of the Romantics, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores the conflict of science and its accompanying lure of ambition against what is natural. Chapters 12 and 13 of the...
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Interestingly, Victor never gives the specific names of the books he reads when he goes to the university at Ingolstadt at age 17. Instead, he talks in general about the type of science he pursues...
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In chapter 5, when Victor has finally brought his creation to life after months and months of toiling over it, he suddenly realizes that the creature is actually horrifically ugly and not at all...
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The best way to answer this question is to put yourself in the shoes of the poor unfortunates who happen to encounter Frankenstein's monster. How would you feel if you saw this big ugly creature...
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You listed narrative--which is the story itself and its structure. I don’t know if you meant narrator or narration; but this would be great in applying defamiliarization to Frankenstein because the...
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There are two main allusions that I can detect. The first comes in the initial framing narrative of Walton as he writes to his sister and is used to describe his feelings about his impending...
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There are a number of reasons why it was not correct for the creation of a monster. Let me give you a few of these reasons. First, Victor Frankenstein played the role of God. He thought he could...
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein's creature is a monster in the strictest sense of the word. A monster, technically speaking, is any animal or plant which is abnormal in its form or structure or which would not or...
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Mary Shelley herself, along with numerous critics, has acknowledged her debt to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in her Frankenstein. Clearly, the epic of damnation and...
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Both Walton and Victor represent Romantic ideals, and are guided by notions of science and exploration. Both men desire to explore the unknown and are inspired by grand ideas. Victor immediately...
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There are multiple times where the monster shows behaviors typical of a child in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. When the monster takes over the narrative (in a sense, given the story is...
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I assume you mean Volume 1, Chapter 5 of Frankenstein, and not Volume 2? The main themes are in bold: Creation of Life from Death: Victor wants to "infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing...
