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Frankenstein is the novel that I have chosen for my Case Study, the author is Mary Shelley, she was born on August 30th^ , 1797, in London. She married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary thought about writing the novel when she and her husband were in Switzerland, they entertained themselves reading ghost stories with other writers, and one day someone told her that she should try to write a horror story. Then she wrote her most famous novel, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.
Frankenstein is the story of a monster that is created by the scientific Victor Frankenstein, the story develops in a ship; the captain writes to his sister the things that Victor tells to him when he founds him, Victor relates to the captain how he created The Monster and why he did it, then the different situations that happen because of that. The novel ends with the death of both characters Victor and The Creature.
There are so many different topics that I could have chosen but I thought the easiest for me to develop and to talk about would be the next one. I decided to explain if The Creature is naturally evil, or what is that makes him become evil, his own choices or what happens to him. This topic appears in the novel from the beginning to the ending. I think it is an important thing to search about because it is happening nowadays, children do what they see, and people is so influenced by TV, also people seem so worried about the way we look, and what other people could think about ourselves, what is the most important, our look or our feelings?
When Victor creates The Monster, he is like a child, he has born and he does not know anything, he needs to learn how to speak and how to write. People, and even more children, learn watching other’s people behaviour, and then we need someone to teach us if what we do is right or wrong. So, when Victor afraid of what he had created (just for the way he looks) ran away, the first thing that The Monster sees is that his “father” abandons him, and that he is left alone without anything to survive.
From the start the relation between father and son is a love/hate relation. The Monster wants to love and to be loved, he loves his maker because he is his father, but he hates him because he brought him to life and he did it without a partner to share things and then he left him alone. The Monster has a lonely life; he does not have any friends.
When Frankenstein leaves The Monster by his own, he starts walking without any direction, he wants to arrive at a place where he could stay and meet somebody to talk with. This is an example located in the text where we can find how The Creature is rejected by the society. People are afraid of him because he looks different, with other sizes and features. So, people do not try to know him, they even hurt him throwing him stones and other things, if people would have meet him
they would have realized that he is normal just like themselves, because despite his appearance, on the inside he has feelings, he feels pain and love, but he is lonely.
“One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.”
-Page 123
In the following example we can see that The Creature spends time observing a family, he learns to speak and to read listening to the stories of the family. Watching them he starts loving them, and he desperately wants to be part of something like that, how must be to be loved and to have a family who takes care of you. It must be so hard for The Monster to see what he wants to achieve and knowing that he probably is not going to have it never. The old man of the family is blind, and when the family leaves the house and he is alone, The Monster goes to talk with him. The old man can not see the appearance of the stranger, but when the family arrives, they are scared to see such a terrifying person.
“At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.”
-Page 161
What does it mean? I think that the writer wants to say that society is influenced by looks, every century has its standard of beauty, and even nowadays it is still an important fact to consider when getting to know a person.
Obviously, the behaviour of The Creature it is not justified although he shows regret of what he has done at the end of the novel; it is clear in the following example.
“That is also my victim!’ he exclaimed. ‘In his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close! Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and selfdevoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who
end, The Monster stills unhappy, with Victor’s death he does not achieve anything, he even gets sadder, and he commits suicide, so I think he would have never been happy unless he had found love, and with his maker dead, that was impossible. He chooses to be dead instead of leaving a horrible life.
