The Theme Of Personality In Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

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Joshua Bozzacco
English IV Honors
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7 December 2017 Frankenstein Unmasked Everyone has hidden motives in life, and a variety of times they can go wrong. Within Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, readers can see Victor, whose intentions are not in the right place. Through reading this novel individuals can take a look inside the main characters. Throughout this novel everything is not what it seems and there is always more to a story than what is presented. Many factors go into Frankenstein's down fall including his relationship, obsession, and beliefs. In Shelley's Frankenstein, the novel starts off by seeing Victor Frankenstein as a very ambitious young man. Frankenstein can be viewed as an interesting individual, and at times he has the personality of a psychopath. Frankenstein's views on many situations throughout this novel are very dark. This is show in the beginning through Frankenstein addressing a letter to his sister. Frankenstein, credits …show more content…

It seems as though Frankenstein does not understand what role a father even plays in the act of producing more offspring. A very big example of this would be the creation of a monster. Instead of bringing a child into this world through natural methods, Frankenstein decided to create one of his own using unnatural processes. This could also go into the fact in the way Frankenstein seems to view women.
Frankenstein tends to view women in a very different way than most men traditionally view them. Instead of seeing women as having the power to create life, he completely disregards this fact and doesn’t even see his own mother fit to create life. The monster then follows this tendency, and becomes an even worse version of Frankenstein. This fear comes from the constant pushing of marriage from Frankenstein's father, and even though he is attracted to Elizabeth, he also fears

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