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Psychological And Mental Illness In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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When examining different stories, readers can use Freud’s view of psychoanalysis on understanding character’s psychological/mental illness as well as know about the uncanniness taking place. For example, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor found his creature pleasing while describing his emotions on how “His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful” (Shelley 60). However, as it came to life, Victor would say how “These luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes…” (60). The problem in animation is when restoring the dead, it leaves the monster with the stigmata of death. Its Heimlich qualities: “the work of muscles and arteries” (60) are made unheimlich by their admixture with the qualities
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