Man's Attempt to Develop Life in Frankenstein and Its Consequences

Frankenstein is an enormously popular novel that is told to youngsters and elderly too. The novel was first published in 1818, based on terrifying nightmare. However due to circumstances in that particular time, it was left without the author's name on. These circumstances were they of the role of the woman and where her place should be. Adwoman's role was believed to be at home, looking after the children, baking, sewing, most certainly not writing. However, this was not the case for one woman, Mary Shelly. Instead, duet 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 (Lew, 255-83).

Both of her parents were encouraging her to write. Therefore, that is 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 other 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 (Lew, 255-83).

By reading just three extracts, we get a good idea of how the monster acts and develops. The consequences to man's attempt to master life and death are made evident when, Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, unwittingly creates a "monster" that counteracts man's new control over life and death. Frankenstein's monster becomes a constant interference in Frankenstein's life and a constant threat to the people that he loves. The monster emerges to punish Frankenstein when he attempts to forget the horror he has released from meddling in the creation of life. Following the creation of the monster, Frankenstein's life is plagued with sadness, remorse, and guilt. Before his creation's "birth”, Frankenstein is cheerful and fueled by an innocent curiosity that leads him to discover life's secret. Frankenstein becomes enveloped by a sinister passion fueling his intense desire to create life. However, when he is persuaded to create another monster Frankenstein is disgusted by the task before him.

Frankenstein compares his altered sensations regarding the two monsters as "During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment…my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings. But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands" (Shelley 162). Frankenstein's change is a result of the monster's effect on him, following the creation's birth; Frankenstein is plagued by guilt and remorse. Victor Frankenstein repeatedly and rejects and abandons his monster and is punished by strange illnesses. Originally, Frankenstein immediately rejects his monster upon its "birth” (Lew, 255-83).

The abrupt change in his attitude towards his creation is a result of the monster's symbolism as punishment for altering ...