The book ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley is called after the main character – a scientist Victor Frankenstein who created ‘a Frankenstein monster’. The book’s subtitle is ‘The Modern Prometheus’ which is the reference to a famous Titan Prometheus. He made a human out of clue and stole the fire from the Gods to help people survive. The punishment for this crime was cruel – his liver was slowly eaten by birds every day. With this subtitle Mary Shelley meant to highlight that in an attempt to do something outstanding for a humankind, both, the Titan and the scientist, made a huge mistake – thought themselves being gods.
The book started with a meeting of an English explorer, Robert Walton, who went on an expedition to the North Pole, and an exhausted man, scientist Victor Frankenstein. When Frankenstein feels better, he tells his story to Walton.
The story is following. Victor Frankenstein was raised in Geneva. Turning nineteen, he realized his interest in mathematics, physics and biology. When his mother died, Frankenstein went to study at the university in
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The fact that Frankenstein is seriously ill while the monster is away shows that a human being cannot play a role of God. Victor’s life after creation of the monster seems to be a torture, he no longer has any chance to control it. Eventually, he loses any connections with the world and dedicates himself entirely to an obsession with the revenge upon the monster until his death.
The novel leaves the reader with drastically different interpretations of Victor, due to the fact that his image was created via stories told from different perspectives. At the end, the reader is free to decide themselves whether Victor was a genius whose creation was ahead of the scientific world or just a reckless scholar whose experiment went out of