Introduction
Mary Shelley wrote the Frankenstein novel about the story of a young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a creature that is shocking and awful in an unusual scientific creation. According to the 2d series of the Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine that was written in March 17, 1888, they describe the novel as a very adventurous fiction. If Mary had not written a short apology in the preface, they could have considered the novel to be an atheist (Overveldt, 2018). According to the fashionable magazine, John Bell hopes that the writer had noble views that the reader was to gain from his writing that the creations of man should be horrible, fearful, and despicable that have a discomforting outcome that later troubles him. The magazine criticizes how the author executed her story stating that an author who has nobble views should point out applications that will generally be understood better(Overveldt, 2018).
The Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine state that the novel would have been atheist. The author of the magazine about the novels’ critique thought that the novel was not good for society; that was it not for the apology in the preface (Overveldt, 2018). John Bell states that the novel was entirely showing that man can only make creations that would bring terror, horror, and bad outcomes to the realities of the creator. In the entire text, they were able to prove that by stating all the bad things that happened from the creation of Frankenstein. Frankenstein was devastated by the loss of his mother, and he devoted his life upon studying chemistry and mainly the causes of life and death, and that is where he decides to create a perfect man (Overveldt, 2018). Though the intentions of the scientist were good, only bad things happened when the creature came to life. He created an eight-foot-tall creature to be superior to the other species. Clerval, his friend, was terrified of seeing the creature that had been created by Frankenstein upon his surprise visit, it was a monster (Overveldt, 2018).
The creature which was referred to as the demon had fled, and later, he is called by his father with news saying that his brother had been murdered. He was suddenly sure that the creature he had created murdered his brother. The monster continues to torment and threaten him into doing what it wanted, or it would cause more damage to the world. More agony meets him after his cousin Elizabeth is arrested for the murder; she was his lover (Overveldt, 2018). Later she is found dead and all the grief that Frankenstein is passing through from his creation. The explanation of the troubled life of the creator from his creation supports the statement that “the author portrayed that no good would come from a man's creation," which, according to them, is not right.
John Bell, through his critic, thought that the story of Frankenstein to be an atheist because it defiled their beliefs. It did because normally people are godly creatures who had been created by God himself, who is a higher being, and nobody else would be able to give life to a being through creation. That is further explained in the critique, where the magazine stated that the author should have used another application to pass the message that would be understood better. According to them, how the story was told is not clear, and the examples and the setting were wrong.
Second Critical Analysis
According to when the novel was written a well as the critique from the Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, the arguments that that “the presumptive works of man must be frightful, vile, and horrible; ending only in discomfort and misery to himself” and that the novel would have been atheist was it not from the preface apology are well supported. The writer of the novel was futurist; she and his story were ahead of their time(Miranda,2011).
The magazine author John Bell and the public at large found it hard to understand it. The novel falls under several categories, as it is soft science fiction; it is also a gothic fiction, horror fiction, and a romance novel (Miranda, 2011). According to the writing criteria, the novel meets all the standards and requirements of the above categories (Miranda, 2011). John Bell founded Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine in 1745, published from 1806 to 1832 (Michel, 2007). During that time, the world was very different, how they viewed things, and also the literature was not developed and progressed as it is today. It was a women’s magazine with most of it is publishes focused on women. From the 1820s, the magazine started publishing, fiction, and non-fiction articles that were based on science and politics.
Conclusion
The Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine had reliable critic about the Frankenstein novel, but for any critic to be reliable, it should be a personal opinion. John Bell was able to support what he thought about the novel and has also enabled the readers to have their own opinions. A reader from when the critique was written and a reader in 2020 have a different understanding of the novel.
