People have a tendency to rationalize every part of their lives, can you remember any time you tried to justify a regretful action. Kids are the most common case, they throw fits if they are not able to get their way. Adults also use this to avoid admitting disappointment, like if you do not get a job and say you didn't want it in the first place. This also takes place in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Mary Shelley lived in London during the romantic era in the early nineteenth century. During her lifetime she experienced a lot of loss and sorrow which could have influenced her writing works. Her best known work is Frankenstein. It is a cross between sci-fi and horror. In the book we follow the life of a medical student, Victor Frankenstein, who learned the secret to …show more content…
Victor immediately regrets making a creature and the story is of him trying to cope with the stress the monster causes. Readers are able to find the meaning in writings by using literary analysis which is looking critically at the plot, characters, setting and other techniques of writing. Critical lenses are also useful for focusing on specific pieces of a work such as, gender, historical, culture and, social inequality. One valuable piece of the story is how Shelly has the characters justify their behaviors. In mary Shelley’s Frankenstein rationalization is evident by the two main characters, Victor and the Creature, justifications for their actions even though they are wrong.
Victors lack of a guilty conscious can be seen in his own words. Victor reflects many times on his past mistakes and blames other people and the monster in order to calm his mind. One instance is when