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     Death is a major theme that Mary Shelley explores in her book Frankenstein. Learning about her unique life story through Laurens presentation was very eye opening to me. It helped me realize that this books creation was heavily influenced by the major death and loss Shelley experienced in her life.      The interesting part about Victors character was that he was blinded by this ambition and determination the whole story. He dies regretting his creation and wishing it never existed, and his death was brought on by his own recklessness. He starts the story with this determination to create the monster and dies determined to destroy it. He plays God throughout this story and takes nature into his own hands to create life, and fails doing so. He did not learn much from his mistakes. However the monster seemed to learn more then Victor because he actually felt remorse for his wrongdoings, but he eventually killed himself at the end.      As ...

       When reading the first half of Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein we are shown the life of Victor Frankenstein. Victor, the scientist who creates the monster that is commonly given his name, is the character who’s childhood is narrated in the first few chapters. Even though the main and titular character is Victor Frankenstein and this conundrum with the monster he creates the beginning of the novel followed a man named Robert Walton on his journey through the ocean to the North Pole. He writes letters to his sister while on his journey about being lonely and wanting to have a companion to enjoy life with. This relates to Frankenstein and his life as he  craves having a friend in life and his eventual creation of his monster.      When Victor when to school it was natural for him to explore his relationship with others and divulge deeper into his search for a companion in life. 

  After reading   Frankenstein  in high school, I did not fully appreciate the story enough or completely understand the entire plot. Now that we are reading it for this class, I am able to notice things about the story that I didn’t acknowledge before. In the first half of   Frankenstein,  we are introduced to many characters and see how they relate to each other as the plot develops.   In the beginning, Mary Shelley introduces the reader to Robert Walton. He longs for knowledge about nature and sets out on a journey to the North Pole to discover a northern passage and learn about magnetism. On his journey, Walton meets a man named Victor Frankenstein and encourages him to join them on his ship. Frankenstein warns Walton about his experience with chasing knowledge and giving into his determination. You can see the connection between Walton and Frankenstein because they both desired knowledge about something greater than themselves and do not stop even when...

       In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , we see the importance of human interaction and human emotion. When Victor Frankenstein creates the "monster" he didn't take the emotions of his creation into consideration. Frankenstein completely abandons his creation without thinking of the consequences it will have on his creations being. While trying to create a living being, it is impossible to separate emotions from living human being.      In the beginning of the story, we learn Victor Frankenstein's backstory. This allows us to see how much he values and cares for his family. However when creating his "monster", he doesn't even think about emotions or giving his "monster" a family. The "monster" feels alone because everyone is afraid of him and even the person that created him doesn't want anything to do with him. Frankenstein describes his creation as a "catastrophe" and "horrid" (Shelley 35).  Frankenstein s...

     In Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. the monster that that was created by Victor Frankenstein wanted to get revenge on him after being put away in isolation. The monster decides that instead of killing Victor, he is going to kill everyone that is close to Victor to make him feel as alone as the monster was when he was in isolation. At that time he had so much anger built up. I quickly realized that just as us humans, the monster has emotions and feelings too.      When Frankenstein created his monster, he immediately judged the way it looked. He did not get to know it at all before judging it. Victor immediately just assumed that it was a real monster based on its ugly looks. Because he thought that way, Frankenstein would not teach him how to behave or act. The monster needed to learn things for himself since there is no parent figure in the picture. Since he was not raised correctly, he ends up acting like an actual monster which leads up to...

     In the beginning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, we get a good origin story of Victor Frankenstein, at this point, a child who is already fascinated with science. His family consists of his mother, father, and Elizabeth, an adopted sister from when his family visited Italy. Luckily for both Elizabeth and Victor, they had a great relationship with their mother and father and their friend Henry Clerval, who is their close friend. It is not all happy moments though, as Victor seems to be waiting for his "fate" or "doom". And upon further reading, it seems like he is predicting it, or can't wait to finally witness it. It is a sort of messed up mentality to have. It is not normal for people to regularly think about their impending doom. To make his mental health worse, his mother catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth. She passes right before Victor goes to university. This is a very sad moment, he states "I need nor describe the feelings of those whose d...

When reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , I realized a few things. First is that the monster was always portrayed as the bad guy, and known as Frankenstein, but in reality, isn’t called by that name. Also, the so-called “monster” had feelings just as humans do, but was always neglected and treated differently. I think this showed how you can never judge a book by its cover. Getting to know the person personally is very important towards knowing their character. As humans, we always assume everyone that’s different than us physically can't have human traits and emotions.  As soon as it was created, Frankenstein judged the monster based solely on their appearance. Before getting to know his own creation, the assumption was already that they were a monster. Just because it was ugly, doesn’t mean it’s incapable of normal human functions. The way the monster is treated will affect how they act and view themselves. There will be negatives to their character and personality due to this...