Mary Shelley

What are truly monsters? In the society that we live in today a monster can be seen as someone who is different from the rest of society. However, there might be a greater purpose to describe what is a monster, and in the Epic poem Beowulf, the author gives us two characters that are judged by society in totally different ways. What readers don't get is that the author has shown us two characters that the old culture has judged as monsters and heros, but he wants us to determine what both of…

work and greatest achievement. The creature is sympathetic, intelligent, and kind, yet the constant rejection of his father drives him to evil. The creature states, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” (Shelley,…

In Marry Sheller's novel Frankenstein, the principal character Victor Frankenstein creates a creature from his desire to bring death back to life that he acquires when he went to College. Victor worked without a rest at the point to be apart from society to satisfy his dream of creating a human being. However, when Victor concluded giving life to his creature, Victor was amazed and terrified by what he created, a "monster". The creature lived a life of loneliness and confusion at the beginning…

Elizabeth is the most significant example in the novel of how unfairly society viewed and treated women. Shelley provides a lengthy description of her physical beauty and feminine characteristics, introducing her as “a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features...fairer than a garden rose” (Shelley 17). Words referencing heaven and angels were used purity and gentility in women, which were valued traits. Elizabeth is also compared to flowers, which, much like women,…

All through the creatures numerous foreswearing of acknowledgment by society and Victor, Mary Shelly demonstrates that social dismissal modifies the aim of man in a negative way, bringing about vengeful and insolent feelings. The creatures vow of vengeance for not getting a female mate resulted in him seeking in revenge on Victor the night of his wedding. Victor resolves to spend the rest of his life searching and killing the creature. The monster begins its life with an open heart, he is then…

All too often we have seen movies or TV shows about a mutant of some sort, who, because of his looks, assumes that no on will love him, and because of that is angry and hostile. Such story lines are even present in The Beauty and the Beast. Usually, in the end there is a kind lady who saves the monster, proving that she can love, and he can too. However in this story there is only the De Lacey family. The monster watches them though a window where he sees love in the family, but he is rejected…

to Love). We fear things that are different or unknown. And what is one emotion that caused the most fear? Love. Love makes us do some crazy things. Strangely, love feeds into fear which consequently feeds into revenge and anger (From Hate to love). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock are outstanding examples of both love and revenge. Revenge is the most prominent theme in Shelley’s Frankenstein. This is one of the main…

turns into later in the novel. Even Frankenstein says towards the beginning of the book that Frankenstein was created with good intentions, and he wanted him to become something good: “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation” (Shelley 35). The time and dedication that Frankenstein put into his creature was something that he intended to be perfect, he wanted him to be good and…

Whilst Mary Shelley’s dream conception of Frankenstein has been seen as evidence of her ‘illustrious imaginative powers’ (Bailey 22), Mary Snodgrass suggests that Walpole’s bad night explains the outlandish nature of Otranto. Some of the contemporary commentators on the novel also shared this opinion; one of Walpole’s friends…

Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, proffers multiple meanings of the monster that can be drawn upon from the text depending on one’s perspective and analysis on the book. The book can be seen as a true story with a real monster who murdered Victor Frankenstein’s family for the monster’s want for revenge. However, this one side is only the surface of what the story is truly about. It only gives a one-dimensional view that everyone should be able to grasp from their first read of the book for…