How Mary Shelley Presents the Monster in Frankenstein

How Mary Shelley Presents the Monster in Frankenstein

Throughout my essay, I am going to explain and show the ways and

techniques that Mary Shelley uses to present the monster through the

novel. I will also describe how wee feel about the monster at various

stages in the novel, and how our views and understanding of him may

have changed. I will begin with a brief introduction to Mary Shelley

herself, and how she was brought up, as I think this has had a big

influence on her writing in 'Frankenstein'.

Mary Shelley was brought up by her father since the age of around just

ten days old. Her mother died just shortly after giving birth to Mary.

I believe Mary Shelley blamed herself for her mothers death, and

writing 'Frankenstein' was her way of letting out and incorporating

her misery and hate through the characters in the book. I think that

she is referring to herself as the monster because he only had a

father, and although I think Mary's father did love her, she was still

missing something and I think she felt like she wanted to be loved.

The novel is set in Geneva, Switzerland which is a very desolate and

isolated country. This gives the feel of loneliness and makes the

novel slightly more frightening knowing it is set in a lonely,

mountainous area in the middle of nowhere. Mary Shelley tells us the

story of how Victor Frankenstein became interested in natural

philosophy, electricity, chemistry and mathematics. Frankenstein left

for Germany, to attend university. There, his interest in natural

philosophy quickly became an obsession. He was particularly fascinated

with the human body and the concept of life. After four years of

fanatic studying, not keeping in contact with his family, he was able

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...n's friend and dislikes the

monster for murdering Frankenstein's wife and brother, he also pity's

him because he has not been brought up to learn right or wrong, so he

thinks that its not his fault. The use of three points of view is very

effective because it really helps you to decide your own point of view

for yourself.

To conclude my essay, I think that Mary Shelley has been very clever

in her use of emotive language especially. I think she really shows us

how the monster is feeling at all time during the novel, and this

shows us his true character. I think our views change of him

throughout the novel, but we will always have the slight sense of

feeling sorry for him more than anything, even though he does murder.

It was never his fault that he was hated and rejected and I think

that's why we have such a strong feeling of understanding towards him.