Examples Of Abandonment In Frankenstein

Valverde 1 Joseph Valverde Mr. John Salmon Ap Literature October 2014 Volume 2 - Chapter 1: Victor Frankenstein is going through great sorrow and grief as his conscience cannot handle the guilt caused by the death of the innocent Justine. He “wandered like an evil spirit” (Shelley 103) as he was unable to conceive peace. This state of mind preyed upon [his] health” (Shelley 103) as he was unable to cope with the present events and his guilt, this marks the mood at his part of the novel as that of despair and of regret. . Victor is then taken to Belrive in order to find peace, there he pondered about the outcome caused by his actions.

Mary Shelley was the wife of Percy Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and the mother of four children. Mary Shelley had an awful childhood, and relationship with her father, and that was portrayed vividly in her novel, however the underlying theme few readers pick up is the parental themes in Frankenstein. Can a mother love their child regardless of deformity, or defects? Victor, and his father play the prominent parental roles in “Frankenstein”. Victor wants to abandon his creation who, according to John Locke, has a “Blank Slate” if Locke's theory holds true the creation, or monster is innocent, and needs guidance from a parental figure.

In a typical Parent-Child relationship the parental figure raises the child until adulthood and occasionally still supports him or her throughout life. According to Sophie Bloom, M.S.L.Ac, by voicing their concerns and their attitudes towards things in the world, parents greatly influence their child and their child’s development. Therefore having a parental figure while growing up is extremely important for a child or a creature's development. A parent abandoning their child can also cause severe consequences later in the child's life. According to Edward Kruk, P.h.D. “(85 percent of youth in prison have an absent father; fatherless children are more likely to offend and go to jail as adults)”.

Victor Frankenstein: From Fascination Passion to Unwinding Isolation Madness is defined as “the quality or state of being mad: such as a state of severe mental illness” or “behavior or thinking that is very foolish or dangerous: extreme folly an idea that is pure/sheer madness” (Merriam-Webster). It is also believed that madness also has varying forms and can be caused by feelings of isolation from society. A main part of being human or even most species on earth live with community. This definition of madness fits the stereotype media has placed on scientists and Victor Frankenstein is a prime example.

The monstrosity of human nature is implied by Mary Shelley throughout the whole novel, which inspires us to think deeply about the meaning of ugliness, both external and internal. One major theme that pertains to the development of a being’s behavior and its relation to monstrosity is nature versus nurture. The two main characters of the novel, Victor Frankenstein and the creature, have an inborn nature that regulates their physical and behavioral traits; however, Frankenstein’s and the monster’s nurturing styles are completely different. How do nature and nurture affect their characters? Was it nature or nurture that made them monster vicious and ruthless and Victor greedy and selfish?

In every good horror story, there is always some sort of monster that is violent and cruel. However, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the exception. The monster that Victor Frankenstein creates, gains great sympathy from the audience, while he describes his story. As he narrates his experience, it is revealed that the creature is no fiend, but a friend. Frankenstein’s monster, for a monster acts very human.

The definition of isolation is where you or someone else you know is setting themselves apart from everyone else. Rejection is when you try to fit in with some group of people but they don’t accept you. The themes of rejection and isolation are prominent in the lives of Victor and the monster. The monster received rejection by everyone he meets even his creator. Even though Victor was not rejected by everyone each time he encounters someone it drove him farther into isolation.

An engaged reading of Frankenstein raises the question: What can our sympathy or lack of sympathy for the monster say about the ourselves? A survey of scholarship on Frankenstein provides insight on this question. In her essay “A Critical History on Frankenstein”, Joanna Smith provides a summary of the criticism of the novel since its publication. Percy Shelly and those of the early 19th century critiques of Frankenstein highlight who is to be responsible for the monster’s behavior and the moral impression on the audience.

The Desire to Change Striving to be someone else in today’s society is a very common theme in today’s society. Wanting to be someone different does not necessarily mean that they want to be just like another person that they see somewhere or a person that they look up to, sometimes as humans in today’s society they just want to be a better version of themselves. Acceptance is the act of being favored by a group of people in hopes of being able to fit in. In today’s society everyone is trying to figure out whether or not it is better to fit in for a certain period of time, or if it is better to stand out and be their own person even if it means potentially getting lost along the way. Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein ____________________________.

It is obvious that the Monster had a really difficult life in the world surrounded with normal people, and very difficult for him to decide what he really is, if he is a child or a man or maybe an animal because he was even more ugly than an animal but yet he moved forward on his life being aware that he did not belong to this world, he is incapable of finding enough food to feed himself or find a comfortable place where he could sleep so it was all understood from him that he did not fit to this world of nature, when in the novel is described his life with all the description of his life in nature and all his sufferings we can immediately know that he felt very lonely and all his crimes were committed based on his loneliness, he is somehow compared with Satan for some situations that both of them had been through them (Bloom, 2007, p.8). In his book, Joshua (2007, p.47) also explains the senses of the Monster, who in a way understands all the situations around him and he was able to response to his surroundings and also aware of his