PART TWO: “I don’t believe the body downstairs ever died. There is no cause of death, because it never died. And it never died because it’s never been alive.” The quotation presented above comes from Jack Finney’s famous novel “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. The quotation suggests to us that it is not death that is uncanny, but rather improper life. Miles describes the body he finds as a product of artificial manufacturing which is the very essence uncanniness because it indicates improper life; it is simply not meant to be. Relating to Freud’s principle theme of ‘the double’ (the idea that something like us could very well replace us), the quotation provides evidence of the possibility of this phenomenon, which pushes the reader from terror into the realm of horror8. An analogous dimension of the quotation can be observed through Miles’ unfamiliarity with the situation he describes. As a man of science, his encounter with the impossible is the prime cause of the uncanny. The human body which was once “old long and familiar” now becomes foreign and mysterious which Freud labels as the feeling’s principle cause. “My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.” *** this is also …show more content…
In it, the narrator Victor Frankenstein describes to us the circumstances under which he went to the University of Ingolstadt. H describes that his whole life had been spent with people whom he considered beautiful and aesthetically pleasing in some way or form. Victor blames his seclusion as the reason why he finds new people and places repulsive, or even ugly, but in fictional reality it is due to his immensely narcissistic nature; an ego defence mechanism. This so-called narcissism will eventually lead Frankenstein to his ultimate demise. His ego prevents him from realizing the consequences of his scientific