Individualism In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The story of Frankenstein is a novel that most of us today are familiar with, it's a tale told about a monster who was created by a young scientist named Victor who created a “wrath of evil” that everyone soon becomes afraid of. One thing about Frankenstein is that it isn't just a gothic horror novel but a more romantic novel. The novel solely reflects on themes from the time of romanticism when imagination, emotion, and individualism were huge things, the novel takes a wider look at each character's emotions and at the time the Author Mary Shelly wanted to create visual and meaningful representations of this novel by including the values of romanticism. So, when it comes to discussing whether or not Frankenstein is considered to be a gothic

In the novel, you can see all the emotions that Frankenstein has endured with love, fear, and even anger all do because of the obsession that Victor had with this so-called monster and that which guided him to go commit acts that made him go kill his friends and family which was caused by his emotions getting the best of him and creating a sense of anger. This being one of the examples of the values of romanticism shows that the novel can also be why it's considered a novel of romantic themes. Frankenstein didn't want to commit these acts, he was so angry as to what Victor did to him and just couldn't control all the emotions he was feeling at the moment and only focused on getting back at Victor for creating what he is and wanted revenge. Mary Shelly wanted to emphasize the idea of emotions through the romantic idea and wanted to force Frakenstine to have those human emotions to get that human-like experience. Another value I saw that was portrayed in the novel was imagination. Imagination was one of the bigger values of

In this case with Victor's imagination he was able to use his own vision to create the so-called “monster” everyone is afraid of and just be able to explore through that. Imagination in the art period was solely based on your own creativity and that's what Victor was trying to accomplish at that time. Lastly, one other value I saw in the novel Frankenstein was the value of Individualism. During romanticism, episode individualism was when people would share their own importance and uniqueness to their own extent. In Frankenstein, you can see how Victor wanted to create this life by making his own creature and sharing it with the world, and showcasing his scientific ways to them. He wanted to be able to create his own means and have extracted from these special norms people have. Soon that leads him to have to be closed out of the outside world leaving him to only the thing he created and having him lose control of that. Overall, I do think the idea of Frankenstein does rely on the essential values of romanticism as proven in the novel. It explores all the main values like individualism, emotions, and imagination together, the novel itself has a power that many of us today aren't entirely sure about but still