Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a book about a man named Victor Frankenstein. ... Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, was an amazing book. Mary Shelley did a great job of keeping the story interesting enough to keep me reading. The story showed how science, and the life of one man, effected the lives of so many others. ... The only one, who should mess with life and death, is God....
Mary Shelley's literary creation, "Frankenstein," is one example of how appearance - however grotesque - does not necessarily determine what lies beneath the surface. ... (Shelley 39) He realizes that he will become famous if he accomplishes the task of bringing a person back to life. ... He is trying to play the role of god by creating life. ... It was to be whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings" (Shelley 66). ... "I will be with you on your wedding night" (Shelley, 131). ...
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Shelley deals with the issue of abandonment and its effects on the human psyche. ... The event of Victor's mother's death seems to be the turning point in Victor's life. ... From the second the creature comes to life Victor realizes what he has done. ... He is abandoned when he saves the life of a little girl. ... I think Shelley was trying to make a comparison between Victor abandoning the monster and God leaving man. ...
The pursuit of knowledge leads to despair and corruption in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ... Mary Shelley writes Victors story from Victor's point of view and of him telling another man, Walton, about his ghastly tale. ... He wants to figure out what brings dead tissue to life. ... His new knowledge is now trying to destroy his life. ... His pursuit of the secret of life destroyed his life, killed those who were close to him, and in the end finished him off. ...
The young ambitious scientist referred to above is Victor Frankenstein, the main character in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... This search drained every ounce of life from him until he couldn't go on and died. ... Frankenstein witnessed what ambition could do to someone, in his own life and in the life of his creation. ... He wants to create life so badly that he slaves over his experiment for a couple of years. ... He blocks out all that is good in his life and doesn't answer to his families letters. ...
