Curtis Baum Professor Voyce Essay 3 ENGL:2010:0A06 The Monstrosity of the Separation Between Man and Monster The Ecological interpretations of Frankenstein deals with the relationship of nature or non human organisms to human organisms. Frankenstein represents monstrosity as a separation of the human and nonhuman by first, using a frame narrative to destroy the category of reader and character and second, making a creature which encapsulates the idea of the uncanny valley. The multiple frame narratives of Frankenstein that are layered on top of one another serve to put the reader in a position to engage with the separation between human and non human and create a sense of environmentality. Environmentality is a state of being in. It is different from a point of view as …show more content…
Abjection is something that goes beyond our concept of life and death and our concept of a being. A reflection of the creature's abjection can be found in the dream Victor has of his mother on page 46 of the book. Even though his mother is someone that he loves dearly, he is revolted by her appearance. In this dream his mother is not quite human (she is not alive like a human) and is an abjection. Victor’s mind is troubled by the breaching of the human and non-human division just like it is with the creature. The creature’s intellect is the most crucial aspect of creating the uncanny. During the proposition scene Victor is conflicted between empathy and disgust: “His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionate him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved…”(Shelly 138). He speaks like a man but does not look like a man and is therefore not considered one (Webster 4). He is almost human and therefore fits in neither the human or the safe, weak non human slot. He is the ‘almost human’. He is the