Response To Frankenstein

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The use of reader response in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein shows the different types of opinions formed by the readers on many different topics such as whether they liked the text, agreed or disagreed with the author, what they thought of the book and/ or what they thought the purpose of the book was and what their critiques of the book are (Daryl Smith O' Hare and Susan C. Hines). The purpose of the book is believed to be one of the most important discussion topics of the book. The purpose of Frankenstein was to analyze humanity in The Creature.
Does The Creature have a soul? In the religious point of view Gidley states that “Not only has the creature learned to speak, he has also read books. He refers most often to Milton's Paradise Lost. …show more content…

Frankenstein's creature recognizes that the God who created Adam is spiritual and benevolent. This lends a reflected glory and dignity to Adam: he too is a spiritual being, fitted for communion with God and conversation with angels. And God is good to Adam. Frankenstein, on the other hand, is a mechanic, and his creature is a machine. By coincidence, Frankenstein's creature had come into possession of Frankenstein's laboratory notebook and had read the story of his own creation. In contrast to the creation of Adam, the creature finds the story of his own creation to be filthy and disgusting. Again the underlying horror is the realization that he is a merely physical being. Hovering over the novel is a word that is rarely used within it, and never with its theological meaning: soul. Frankenstein does not lose his soul, and no one in the novel warns him that he is in danger of losing it. Like his creature, he doesn't have one” (James S. Gidley 2007). The Creature believes that Frankenstein is his God and since he is his God then he will make him another of himself like God created Eve for Adam. The Creature believes that if God was good to Adam, then his creator shall be good to him. When The Creature realizes

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