Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein is a tale of an ambitious scientist who succeeds in creating life from deceased body parts. ... The creature turns out to be a disfigured being, whom Frankenstein considers a monster and ultimately abandons. ... Frankenstein's creation, although considered a monster, exhibits human emotions and wishes to love and to be loved. ... " (Shelley 135). ... " (Shelley 145). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. ... Ignoring the criticisms of his own Father, Victor tells himself, "I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable, " "the raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors" (Shelley 46). ... Victor's arrested development is discussed in David Collings" essay, The Monster and the "Ma...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate