Theme Of Monstrosity In Frankenstein

Nearly everybody has his own imagination concerning what a monster is like. Some people define a monster to be ugly, dangerous, to have threatening outward appearances or for instance to have a green skin color. These are only a few features a monster can be like. In Marry Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, a modern Prometheus, the protagonist Frankenstein creates life through death (Brooks, 600). He succeeds in creating his own animation, a monster, that expresses through his actions to be a real monster. Therefore, monstrosity is a core topic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This essay will examine in how far monstrosity is shown and to what extend the monster is connected to the protagonist Victor Frankenstein. Primarily it is necessary to take a closer look at the term monstrosity. The term monstrosity can be referred to as something that is very ugly and usually large (Cambridge). „The monster is a product rather than a creation, assembled and joined together not so much by a man

Right after the monster was created in Victor’s apartment, Victor’s meetings with the monster only take place at the tops of mountains, on glaciers or during violent storms (Freeman, 24). Consequently, it is evident to know that „every time nature is invoked in the novel, as moral presence presiding over human life, it appears to produce only the monstrous“ (Brooks, 591). In addition to the aspect of nature, it is an significant aspect that Frankenstein mentions that he experienced a terrible thunderstorm with frightful loudness as he was a child (Shelley, 23). What is conspicuous is that the next flash of lightning he experiences, actual brings him face to face with monstrosity. (Freeman, 24). Frankenstein meets the monster for the first time after his creation at Ingolstadt and Frankenstein soon recognizes that it was the wretch to whom he had given life (Frankenstein, 67). So here is another aspect of monstrosity