Frankenstein as the Doppel Ganger

Introduction

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Frankenstein: or, the modern Prometheus), sometimes simply Frankenstein, is a novel written by ' English Mary Shelley between 1816 and 1817, when he was only 19 years old, published in 1818. This is the novel that generates the name of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the character of the creature, often referred to as Frankenstein's monster, which at the grassroots level are wrongly mentioned under the same name.

It is probably due to the figure of the monster, an expression of fear, while widespread, and the technological development that the novel has become immortal. Frankenstein is one of the myths of literature because it is rooted in human fears. The "creature" is an example of the sublime, the “other ", which in itself causes terror (Moores, 71-83).

Since the publication of the book, the name of Frankenstein has entered popular culture in literature, film and television. It is also often used, by extension, as a negative example in what bioethical, alluding to the fact that the aforesaid doctor experiments was to carry illegal or ethically questionable.

Thesis statement

The paper discusses about how Shelley writes an allegory regarding technology and man, and she uses doppelganger effect by applying it in tow major characters of the story.

Discussion and analysis

In the novel, Shelly has portrayed beautifully a doppelganger relationship between the two characters that can be identified through three distinct types of application, the complements, the opposites and the doubles. This relationship basically reflects the actual connection between technology and Men and it exemplifies the vicious outcome leading to when it exceeds the limit (Shelley, 1818).

Thus, it is a fact that Frankenstein is not a celebration of rational principles, but a moral lesson and perhaps policy on what actions can be defended as reasonable (in the middle, when the creature tells his story). Critics, however, prefer to pay no attention to this obvious background and catalog the novel as a horrible eventful history.

The Character of Frankenstein

In Shelly's gothic novel, the major protagonist, with the character Victor Frankenstein, created a manifest double for himself in the form of his creature. Thus, these two of the characters looking nothing alike can be taken as doubles because of their close psychological connections, this includes the feeling of resentment from Victor's childhood where he in turn projects onto the Creature, and to the fact as Victor ultimately begins to ...