Frankenstein Analysis
Before reading Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus I didn’t know much about the story because the only exposure to the story I had was from Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein, while this rendition was extremely amusing, it did not follow the story line of the book in the slightest. I thought that the monster was named Frankenstein, I thought that the monster always had bad intentions, and I didn’t think the monster killed Victor's family. Now that I have finished reading Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus I know there is a lot more to the story and that the monster was not named Frankenstein. I also have learned that the monster was ornately good from the beginning and that The Monster killed Victor’s family out of revenge because no one
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That is not true at all, though. Victor gave The Monster every reason to be furious with him, Victor abandoned The Monster at “birth”, He threatens to kill him, calls him grotesque, and finally makes a promise to The Monster then breaks it (Shelly 56-160). To me, The Monster gets all of my sympathy because from day one he is treated horrifically because of how he looks. All the Monster needed to be a good monster was for Victor to love him, or Victor could have fulfilled his obligation to The Monster, and The Monster and his new wife would have left victor alone and been happy. Although Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus was written almost 200 years ago it is still extremely relevant to today in many ways. This book at first glance can be seen simply as an impressive story, if you think about it relates to the morals of scientific discovery, child rearing, and technology (Snowychik 3,8,10) Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus can be used as an example for scientific research because Victor wanted to have powers on par with Mother Nature by creating life; he did but it came with dire consequences. The Monster he created brings him great misery and despair by tormenting him and playing a hand in the death of all of his family (Shelly 193). This relates to our scientific
That is not true at all, though. Victor gave The Monster every reason to be furious with him, Victor abandoned The Monster at “birth”, He threatens to kill him, calls him grotesque, and finally makes a promise to The Monster then breaks it (Shelly 56-160). To me, The Monster gets all of my sympathy because from day one he is treated horrifically because of how he looks. All the Monster needed to be a good monster was for Victor to love him, or Victor could have fulfilled his obligation to The Monster, and The Monster and his new wife would have left victor alone and been happy. Although Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus was written almost 200 years ago it is still extremely relevant to today in many ways. This book at first glance can be seen simply as an impressive story, if you think about it relates to the morals of scientific discovery, child rearing, and technology (Snowychik 3,8,10) Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus can be used as an example for scientific research because Victor wanted to have powers on par with Mother Nature by creating life; he did but it came with dire consequences. The Monster he created brings him great misery and despair by tormenting him and playing a hand in the death of all of his family (Shelly 193). This relates to our scientific