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(page 34) Besides that, the book was beautiful and it was a great book. The author was the narrator of the book. He used action verbs like plop! I enjoyed his style of writing.
The opening scene is given to us through the use of letters, introducing the format of the novel. Mary Shelley introduces Robert Walton (main narrator) through his letter to his sister (Margaret) about his planned journey to the North Pole to gain knowledge and fame. Walton describes his determination to go through with his plan even though his father didn’t want him to. Significantly, that’s what makes him so relatable to Victor. Victor Frankenstein (second narrator who was rescued by Walton’s crew) knew his father didn’t want him to study the field of science that he went off to Ingolstadt for, yet he did it anyways.
Suddenly a thunderous growling from deep in the forest and all of a sudden a mighty creature, four times larger than the size of a wolf, appeared from the forest. At once, all of them froze and stopped suddenly their actions. The creature's thick black fur was bristling and constituted a threat and a warning when approaching.
Dangerous Minds- Rough Draft Knowledge has the capability to be used for both good and evil. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there is a consistent message throughout the novel showing the dangerous and destructive power that knowledge can have. Two key characters, Victor Frankenstein and his monster, are shaped through their obsessions with knowledge and the power and responsibility that it brings. Ultimately, Victor’s downfall is a result of his uncontrollable thirst for knowledge, and is brought about through the monster which is the embodiment of his obsession. Victor is a brilliant scientist who figures out a way to create life from death using galvanism, or electricity.
NICO NICO ENGLISH 102 January 5 2018 In Chapter one, the author, Victor Frankenstein, begins to write about the recollections of his past including the background of his parents, relatives, and friends. His father was a respectable man and was an intimate friend of Beaufort, formerly a successful merchant who fell to poverty causing himself and his daughter, Caroline Beaufort, to retreat to town of Lucerne. After 10 months living in wretch, Beaufort died in Caroline’s arms. Victor’s father then committed to take care of Caroline and 2 years later made her his wife.
Chapters 1-5 of Frankenstein descriptively talks about the Frankenstein’s family background such as living at Geneva and personal histories. Alphonse Frankenstein (Father of Victor) took care of Caroline (Mother of Victor) whose father died from poverty. After two years of the incident of Beaufort,which is the father of Caroline, Alphonse and Caroline married each other thus giving birth to Victor Frankenstein. While visiting a poor Italian family, Caroline stumbles upon a beautiful girl named Elizabeth Lavenza. Victor Frankenstein and Elizabeth grows up together and carries on with their personal goals.
Written during the ninteenth century, the gothic Frankensteinnovel by Marry Shelly, tells the story of a young educated student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but fantastic creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment, which leads to different tragic events. Shelly writes about the creation of the creature and how he is first introduce to his livelihood and this world. In this novel Shelly uses different types of literary techniques to convey the expression of the creature as a baby just learning about life and the world, and by employing innovative literary techniques such as imagery, setting, theme, and characterization, she creates a feeling of sympathy on the readers. This feeling is created through Shelly establishment of pity on the readers by reavealing the creature’s loathsome creation, habitat, or even existence.
It is often said that the more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know. Even Aristotle said, “The more you know, the more you know you don 't know.”. This can often lead to a yearning for more knowledge and sometimes, can be somebody’s downfall. In this case, it was Victor Frankenstein’s downfall. His love for science and his ever-growing quest to learn about the human body ultimately destroyed him, his family, his wife to be, and his best friend.
ENG-3U0 November 20 2015 Frankenstein: The Pursuit of Knowledge Throughout the course of their individual journeys, Victor Frankenstein’s extreme passion for gaining knowledge about creating life, Robert Walton’s curiosity to discover land beyond the North Pole and the monster’s eagerness to obtain knowledge about humans was the principal cause of each of their suffering. As such, In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the pursuit of knowledge is a dangerous path which leads to suffering. Victor Frankenstein develops a keen interest in discovering knowledge about living beings which ultimately results in his personal suffering as well as others suffering. To begin with, Victor embarks on an assignment through combining body parts and following various
When writing any piece of fiction, an author 's choice of narrative voice has a huge impact on how readers experience the story. From the slightly less personal yet versatile third-person to the narrow, limited view of first-person, the narrative voice literally provides the voice of literature. It affects which characters the reader really connects with, the opinions that influence them, the knowledge they have, and numerous other aspects. While most authors stick with only one tense, Mary Shelley challenged that standard in Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, Shelley changes her narrative voice numerous times in order to fully develop all aspects of the story through Walton 's letters, Frankenstein 's story, the Monster 's story, and also the
But I got to know it better and I discovered that I was wrong thinking that Frankenstein is the name of the monster, it is actually the name of the person who created it. Overall it’s a very good novel, it's
