Novel Frankenstein Essay

As he walks by the town inn, passe-partout comes across his friend Henry Clerval, who has just arrived to begin studying at the university. gratify to see Henry, he reminds him of his family vivification after so many an(prenominal) months of isolation and gruesome health. They go back to schoolmasters apartment victor enters beginning and is relived to find no sign of the monster. But, Weakened by months of work and the shock at the horrific be he has created, he immediately falls ill with a nervous fever that lasts several months. Henry nurses him back to health and, when Victor has recovered, gives him a letter from Elizabeth that had arrived during his illness.In the first paragraph we arrive at a climax of horror as Victor describes the anxious moment he has been anticipating two years for. With the way Shelley has created atmosphere of dull misery and dreariness, we evoke guess that victor has intense feelings. The animation of the creature is set on a dull and dreary n ight of November. The rain pattered dismally the candle was to the highest degree burnt out and there was a glimmer of the half-extinguished light. Shelley is using negative descriptive to give this scene sense of horror that victor is feeling.This is an appropriately natural and depressing scene for the opening of the dull yellow eye of the creature. This atmosphere is used to open this paragraph to set the horror and anxiousness that the creature is personnel casualty to create. In the opening paragraph Shelley refers to infuse a spark to the lifeless thing. Here she is probably going on about galvanism, which is how the creature was brought to life in Frankenstein. Shelley was living in an age of scientific developments, and so her ideas would have been experiments and scientific debates of her time.Many scientists then looked to chemistry to give them the secrets of life, and Shelley would have done research on these matters. A scientist called, luigi Galvani believed that there was a different form of electricity produced by lightning, and the brain contained in animals. This vital force was called galvanism, which made muscles move. Experiments were done on galvanism, wires would be attached to the a human body and the corpse began to move, making it look as thought the body has been brought back to life.Shelley used this experiment in Frankenstein to bring the creature to life. In the second paragraph Victor goes on to describes the creatures appearance and his feelings towards this. Its like Victor has given birth and his in the buff creature is his newborn child, frequently jaundiced, misshapeden, shrivelled, and rounds a great disappointment to the unprep ared parent. His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful Great God Victor is immediately horrified by the overall wretch he has created, its a catastrophe.Victor is repelled and unable to look beyond the physical ugliness. His odontiasis of a pear ly whiteness but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the aforementioned(prenominal) colour as the dun whit sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. Victor saw beauty in the body move when they were separate but hated the overall appearance. Victor is horrified by the wretch he had created. He calls his creation a number of names, Creature, Miserable monster, possessed(predicate) corpse, wretch. These names are negative names to be called, showing that Victor has a very negative attitude, thoughts and feelings towards his creation. Victor runs away, as he so often tries to run away from troubles, and attempts to forget in his sleep. But, Victor is disturbed by the wildest dreams, dreams that would frighten him. I startled from my sleep in horror a frozen dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed. Victor is obviously haughtd by this creature, but he doesnt give the creature a chance.His jaw opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a gin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear one impart was stretched out, seemingly to detain me. This took place in Victors bedroom. The first thing the creature desires are contact and affection, this remain his primary needs, as he stretches one arm towards Victor. This may seem touching, but still Victor escaped and rushed down stairs, and took refuge in the courtyard where he remained for the symmetricalness of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound. At this point Victors creation maybe feeling rejected therefore leading to the bad consequences that the creation is responsible later in the novel. Victor repeatedly misinterprets the creatures expressions, seeing aggression where we see pleasure, affection, or a desire to please. Therefore Victor is selfish and only sees thing s from his point of view, not from his creations point of view and so is not the most reliable of narrators. As a result the reader may question what Frankenstein tells elsewhere in the novel about his creation. It seems to be the physical ugliness of the creature to which Victor reacts to.Here Shelley could be using the monster to criticise society and their reactions to outward appearance and hatful who appear different. What happens in rest of novel about when he tries to be twee but people react negatively because of his appearance In victors dream of the monster, Shelley may be encouraging us to consider the practicable connections between ream and reality and opens up several possible layers of interpretation. The dream may be suggesting that in order of bringing the monster to life is equivalent to violent death Elizabeth, in this way, not when Elizabeth changes into a corpse, the dream is prophetic.This is because victor has just given birth by himself and usurped the ro le of woman, made her unnecessary. His dream of finding the secret of life has effectively killed the mother. These interpretations indicate the potential results of the creation. Dreams allow things that are normally kept buried come to the surface this might be unacceptable desires or feelings which we are unable to face. In the time of 1816 it was a real crime, so God maybe punishing victor for interfering with temper.Sometimes my pulse would beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitation of every artery others, I nearly sank to the ground with horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment dreams that had been my food and winsome rest for so long a space were no become a hell to me. This is one of the themes of the novel angers of man interfering with nature and god, or dangers of scientific knowledge used incorrectly. As victor is walking by the town inn, Victor comes across his friends Henry Clerval, who has arrived to study at the same collage as victor, Henrys f ather has let him come at last.There is irony in Henry speech. He has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the demesne of knowledge. Henry sees knowledge as a good thing but Victors use of scientific knowledge leads to tragedy. Also, Henry is one of the people who later die as a result of Frankensteins use of this knowledge. Henry saves Victor, but later is murdered by his creation. This tells us a lot about Henrys appearance throughout this chapter. Henry is willing to spend months of hard labour nursing Victor back to health and treats Victor in great respect, but yet victor does not treat his family at all that well.Victor does not tell Henry anything about what he has done. This would influence the reader attitude to Victor to the rest of the novel in a way. This gives the rest of the novel a theme of secrecy. Human nature and secrecy This chapter is the turning point to the novel or other words were it all happens from Victor being excited with solving the secre t of life to being horrified by his creation Show preview only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our GCSE Mary Shelley section.