Reader's Opinion of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Novel

Reader's Opinion of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Novel

Frankenstein is an enormously popular novel that is told to youngsters

and elderly too. The novel was first published in 1818, based on a

terrifying nightmare. However due to circumstances in that particular

time, it was left without the author's name on. These circumstances

were them of the role of the woman and where her place should be. A

woman's role was believed to be at home, looking after the children,

baking, sewing, most certainly not writing.

However this wasn't the case for one woman, Mary Shelly. Instead, due

to having such a radical family, consisting of her father, a professor

and her mother, an outrageous fanatic believer of for the equal rights

of women she followed in their footsteps. Both of her parents were

encouraging her to write. Therefore that's exactly what she did.

However cunningly instead of putting her female name to the book,

instead she simply left the novel with no name to it. This is due to

her not wanting some dominant thinking man coming along glancing at

the feminine name then tossing it aside without even reading what the

book's title was. Mary Shelly's sly plan worked and became an

extremely popular novel and now a film. The novel now has her name to

it.

By reading just three extracts we get a good idea of how the monster

acts and develops. The descriptions and verbs which show us how the

monster is change our opinions vastly throughout these three extracts.

In the first extract it begins with the creation of the monster.

Instantly it is set by a stereotypical horror story beginning

'Dreary night of November'

This instantly tells us this isn't going to be a fairy tale love story

instead makes us anxious as is what is going to happen, it also shows

it'll be a not so fortunate thing, maybe even not planned. Not only

has that but the weather also discreetly told us that there will be a

bad atmosphere due to the bad weather,