Family relationships Essay

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein portrays a resurrected puppet as either a victim or a junky depending on the endorsers response. In the following essay I am going to explore whether Frankensteins creature is a victim or monster how Mary Shelley put this across in the novel and how Mary has created complicated complex characters. A victim is considered to be someone or something that is harmed or killed by another harmed by or made to suffer from an act or circumstance or A person who is tricked, swindled taken advantage of.The intelligence service originates from Latin, Victima, which is defined as a person or animal sacrificed to a god. These definitions link to Frankensteins creature because he is sacrificed to k like a shotledge and science hurt emotionally and because of maestros obsessions is made to suffer. Also William, Justine, Elizabeth, master key and the other characters who ar harmed, killed and made to suffer would be considered a victim. A monster as d efined in the dictionary is legendary animal combining features of animal and human form any creature so ugly as to shake people a person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etcAny animal or thing huge in size an animal or set up of abnormal form or the absence of certain parts or organs. The Story of Frankenstein is extremely famous and Frankensteins creature has become a legendary monster because of the popular novel he could be described as legendary and combining animal and human forms due to his mannerisms. Mary Shelley describes the creature as monstrous because he frightens people with his ugliness becomes cruel and perform horrendous acts. Dr Frankenstein would describe the creature as a cruel and wicked person for killing his family so is therefore monstrous.Theses monstrous actions are counteracted by Dr Frankensteins actions because he abandons his son. Mary Shelley turns links between her living and the novel. This could be to make the novel more original and personal to her and gives a more realistic setting and set of events to novel. Examples of this are in August 1797 Mary was born and her parents had an good opposition to marriage plainly in March, 5 months earlier to her birth, they married to give their daughter social respectability. This relates to Frankenstein because marriage is portrayed as proscribe when Elizabeth gets killed after her and Victor marries.On the 10th of September, 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft, Marys mother dies 10 mean solar days after her birth. This links with Victors life because his mother dies of Scarlet fever after nursing Justine, being close to his mother this makes him think about reviving people from the dead. Having an interesting save out-of-the-way childhood in the novel she describes Victors childhood as perfect in contrast to her own. We go this in the following ways Victors parents had a happy marriage. Evidence of this is there was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them, only closer in bond of devoted affection. This shows us that Victor has a strong parent relationship as his parents age difference seemed to unite them we too know that Victors parents tell apartd him because Mary Shelley wrote my mothers tender caresses and my fathers smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections. This emphasises the strong family bond the Frankenstein family rescue and shows his fist memories are domineering and of his parents love for him. This links with Mary Shelleys family relationships because in contrast to Victors parents, her mother and father were emotionally distant like Victor and the creature.The Greek myth of Prometheus is said to be linked in to Frankenstein because Shelley wrote a second backing to the novel, the Modern Prometheus. This is because in the story of Prometheus in order to help people Prometheus stole Zeuss fire from the sun so people would have an advantage o ver animals since they were given the ability to make weapons and tools. As punishment, Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where eagles ate his liver when night fell. But when day broke the next day his liver grew back for the eagle to eat again. This torture was to last for an eternity.Eventually, Hercules slew the eagles and released Prometheus. This was to counterbalance the gift of fire the Zeus move Pandora to earth with her box of evils. Dr Frankenstein wanted to help people by giving them an advantage over animals by resurrecting the dead and stealing peoples placid resting. As a punishment, his creation destroyed his mental well being by obsession to make it his family by killing them and his life. Overall the myth of Prometheus and the upstart Prometheus are about good intentions leading to negative things and life changing experience.In 1817, Percy Shelley (Mary Shelleys husband) and Byron discussed galvanism which is the idea of reanimating things using electricity. An Italian physicist, Lugi Galvani demonstrated what we now know to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses. Mary Shelley included these ideas in the novel and took scientific experiments to the extreme. Mary Shelley uses different narrators point of view in a Russian doll narrative structure which reassigns the narrators as another character tells a different side of the story.She uses different people to help the reader feel like they are going deeper into the story. The different characters have their own different opinions of Frankensteins creature just like the reader so our opinions change as we read/hear the story through a different pair of eyes. The three different narrators are Walton, a sea captain who writes to his sister who tells her about Victor. Victor is the second narrator who tells Walton about his life which comes to the meeting of his creature who then becomes the third narrator.The different perspectives and angles are each biased and as a result the reader sy mpathises with Victor when hes telling the story and the monster when he narrates. Mary Shelley originally wrote Frankenstein beginning from the resurrecting the creature but later added Waltons narrative. Captain Walton, a sea captain, venturing out to the Artic gives a similar plot to Victor Frankensteins. This added section seemed to be slightly random but links as the story unfolds when Victor is found. Walton gives the reader a first impression on Victor, whom he rescues from the harsh bitterly cold of the Artic.Walton description of Victor makes the reader sympathise with his appearance. Walton describes him as his limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering Mary Shelley includes this because it provides a comparison when Walton describes his admiration to Victor. We know he admires Victor because he writes to his sister he is so gentle, but so wise his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks although his words are culled with choice st art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparallel eloquence. Waltons admiration to Victor makes the reader also admire him so therefore is more likely to believe the positive recollection of Victors story because two opinions support it. Lost, Victor confides in his saviour as he tells Walton the story of how obsession led to termination and this also is a warning to Waltons obsession for fame and glory. Frankenstein begins with his childhood where Mary Shelley describes this as perfect we know this when she writes My mothers tender caresses and my fathers smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.This shows Shelley has made a contrast with Victors childhood and later on in his life. This also emphasises his parents love, his perfect life and his fond memories of his childhood. This also provides dissimilarity with that of the creature. Frankensteins creature never has a perfect life, fatherly love and fond memories. At the beginning the reader doe s not sympathise with Victors privileged background until his mother dies of Scarlet fever Shelley included this marrow to get Victor thinking about life and death and gives an emotionally felt reason to unearth and discover the secret of immorality.