Creation In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein blurs division between master and slave, creator and created, human and monster. The novel presents creation as inherently monstrous, as dissolving discrete boundaries between self and other even as it fragments any possible sense of social, psychological or self-unity. [See final comments]
Oftentimes, Mary Shelly’s [watch spelling!] Frankenstein brings to mind images of a hulking figure with green skin and bolts protruding from its neck, lurching down a hallway with arms propped forward, communicating in primal grunts and seeking to destroy all in sight. In truth, Frankenstein is an all-too-human story that speaks to the longings and desires found in every heart. Shelly uses the fantastical characters of Victor Frankenstein and the monster to which he gives life to craft a story that asks and answers questions about meaning and existence. These are questions that most men and women ask themselves but leave unanswered. By telling a tale of creator and creation Shelly seeks to answer the age-old question: Is there a purpose in life? What if we had no creator? Or worse yet, what if our creator had no plan for us? By playing devil’s advocate Shelly reveals the need that we all have for an intimate creator. [Say something here also about the literary techniques that Shelley uses in order to …show more content…

In truth, Victor Frankenstein is the creator of the monster, and is the opposite of a monster by all appearances. He is a man of means and education with the purpose and determination to create life from nothing. Driven to the point of obsession, he ultimately achieves this end with the creation of the monster, and it’s in this drive to do the impossible (along with the ensuing results) that raises and answers the question, what if we had no

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