Common Themes In Frankenstein

Frankenstein - Theme Paper
Imagine having the power to create life, but what happens when that creation turns into a monster? That is exactly what happened in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Shelley tells the tale of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who brings life to a dead body with body parts stitched together. His resulting creation is hideous and monstrous, and it runs away. The monster then accounts that he was a light-hearted soul at first, but people made him do the things he does, like killing Victor’s loved ones and framing others for crimes. Many themes prevail in the story, and the story, therefore, is a masterpiece in and of itself. “Nature is sublime” is one theme. “The dangers of alienating others” is another. The theme that this

After the murder of William, Frankenstein’s youngest brother, the monster meets Victor in a cave. The monster then explains his entire life. After his creation, the monster takes refuge in the house of some country people. They were struggling, and the monster soon learned that they depended on firewood, so the monster took it upon himself to help them out. On page 118, the monster says that he “…often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days.” This explains that the monster isn’t some bloodthirsty animal. His nature is benevolent; he has no reason to hurt people, for now. The monster even alludes to the Ass and the Lap-Dog, on page 122. He says that the ass’s “intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execution.” This is a very direct explanation of what is happening to the monster. He is a nice, good-hearted being. Yes, he is ugly and possibly rude, but he deserves so much more than being stoned and deserted. Not soon after, the monster builds the courage to present himself to the blind countryman whom he has been staying with. He implores the man to know that the monster is not a bad person, (Pg. 145) “Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek! Do not you desert me…” This is in vain, however, when another person

This is the other edge of the sword. On page 131, one of the monster’s “friends” father was unjustly “condemned to death”. The injustice of the sentences was “very flagrant”, says the monster. On the next page, the monster describes the sentence as “barbarous’. His friends attempted to save the man. And they did. However, the man had other plans. He did not like the man that his daughter was with. He decided “secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed,” completely against her will. This is also a monstrous act. The government, which so unjustly condemned this man to death, and the man himself who stole his daughter, both do not look like monsters and yet they commit the acts of a monster. The monster explains that he visited a village. On page 112, the monster says that he “hardly placed my foot in the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted…some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country…” They gave no chance to the monster. He did not even say a word, and the humans attacked him. Who is the real monster? During the monster’s conversation with Frankenstein, the monster says that he is lonely. The monster says that the only thing he wants is a companion, on page 156, “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This alone you can do…”. The monster