In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, mankind constantly rejects her monster. ... The Monster becomes fond of the family, "They are kind - they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but, unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me"(Shelley 140). He feels that he can start to make an acquaintance of the family, because he watched the family's daily life, instead of judging the family by outward beauty. ... Without love and companionship, a person is purposeless and alone; all the necessities of life are created with love. ... The Monster said, "I am an unfortunate and d...

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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the title character seeks to recreate the act of creation by making a human being on his own, which becomes known as "The Monster." ... A more scientific approach to life was applied in favor of the old, trite answer of "It is God's Will." ... Shelley presents him as imperfect in his knowledge, yet ambitious in his ideas, not unlike humanity itself. ... In an act of supreme hubris he patches together a man from cadavers and charges him with electricity to bring him to life. ... The Monster is the modern, existential man, who is lacking a sense of a pre...

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It is proven in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that feelings and emotions are felt in any being; whether it be man, creature, or monster. ... He was filled with "a kind of enthusiastic frenzy"(Shelley 149). ... He loved his creation before it became to life. ... Right after the monster came to life the differences between them began. ... (Shelley 35), showed the monster acknowledgement of his creator. ...

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In the novel Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, Dr. ... Mary Lowe-Evans states that, "Nothing in Frankenstein is more unexpected than the Creature's sensitivity" (Lowe-Evans 52). ... (Shelley 136). ... The monster pronounces his threat on Elizabeth's life, after Frankenstein has done "the cruelest act of all" (Oates 78), destroying the partially finished monster that was to be the mate of his first creation. ... All of the monster's previous murders point to the fact that he would attempt to make Frankenstein's life miserable rather than actually kill h...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is filled with various underlying themes, the crux being the effect society has on The Creature's personality. ... God breathed life into Adam and created him in his own image and likeness. ... Victor, a flawed version of God, made the mistake of abandoning his "son" at birth, and continuing to shun him the rest of his life. ... Mary Shelley used a deep, gothic theme to get several different points across, and made it interesting by paralleling the main characters with the characters of a well- known story....

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Unfortunately, for both Mary Shelley and her monstrous creation, few noble deeds were encountered, and instead, both received ostracism and even hatred from society. ... The Sorrows of Young Werther were important to Mary Shelley in the understanding of her dead mother as they were important to the monster in understanding human emotion. Mary Shelley's mother tried to kill herself due to her unrequited love for Gilbert Imlay, the father of Mary's half-sister, Fanny. ... Mary Shelley would have been aware of this having already read the Memoirs. Thus, Mary Shelley utilized the work,...

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In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; The Modern Prometheus there are two notable characters: the scientist Victor Frankenstein, and his creation. ... "(Shelley 120) The creation also suffers tragedy within his own mind. ... "(Shelley 161). ... Every individual faces some sort of pain within their life, but never to the extent that the monster faced. ... Life never got easier for the monster as he was hurt time and time again in every obstacle he was faced. ...

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Throughout "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister in England the progress of his hazardous mission. ... Frankenstein proves to have a God-complex in many manners, revealed in his bringing the dead back to life, creating his own Adam, and choosing whether or not life should be continued after its creation. ... Frankenstein recognizes that "darkness had no effect upon [his] fancy, and a churchyard was to [him] merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life" (Shelley 50). ... As God was considered to be t...

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Throughout history, man has been fascinated with the origins of life. ... We have even fantasized about creating life ourselves and the never-ending quest for knowledge pursues to this day. ... In my opinion this theme of man's search for knowledge ultimately leading to "fall" of humanity is also present in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... Victor was longing for God-like power by trying to create life. ... He was in Victor's thoughts and life in many ways. ...

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"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!" (pg. 323) Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley as a ghost story has turned into what some would call the first ever Medical Ethics Literature piece ever written. ... Throughout the story Frankenstein loses all he ever loved because of the creature he brought to life. ... But once the monster learns Victor will not make a mate for him he continues tormenting his life. ... "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanima...

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