Over the years, monsters have fascinated and attracted people’s mind and have become leading characters in different horror stories, ballads, and fairy tales. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a representative of the Romantic Age since it mentions education in those days where the writer establishes the connection with Victor Frankenstein and her monster. The novels educate the readers on how monsters develop from the point of ignorance to where they understand social statuses from natural states to able ones. Frankenstein novel is considered as a Gothic classic because it structured towards medical ambitions. Throughout the story, readers are introduced to different accounts such as a monstrosity, murder, morbid elements, sadness, secrecy, and connection between the monsters and their creators. Because every child deserves love from the father, the monster’s rebellion against Victor is justifies its humanity.
Frankenstein novel has a specific number of first-person narrators and style of writing which she uses to display the monster’s humanity. In this context, the writer uses an epistolary form of writing to introduce and accompany the story with the main topic of the book. The novel Frankenstein is narrated by three characters, namely, the scientist, Victor Frankenstein, captain Walton writing to his sisters, and Victor’s creation, the monster. Readers understand that the three characters used by Shelley tend to speak for her as well as speaking for them. Frankenstein novel is predominantly told by Victor and his creation, the monster who form the principle of the story’ plot.
In the novel, the narration is based on a nameless monster. By using an unknown monster, the writer tends to dislodge himself from the traditional belief of monstrous that connects the object with a good caption. In some instances, the monster appears to be specific, which is a typical man’s invention that is created to live. The monster is disgusting and unsightly, which causes fear at first appearance. The writer brings the monster into life by establishing some roots. In this context, Shelley employs Victor Frankenstein as a character in charge of the monster’s existence. The novel unravels Victor as a young and naïve scientist who was given advanced power on his hand and could bestow animation (Shelley 46). Thus, readers understand that a person must understand the reason for the monster existence, the character features, and the structure of the body.
Victor believes that the monster is one of the simpler organization or a living creature, implying that it cannot become a man. Similarly, the monster is like machine designs from some particular materials (Shelley 46). In the first encounter with the monster, Mr Walton considers the monster as “as being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs” (Shelley 15). From this perspective, readers understand that monsters have a supernatural existence.
Just like many fairy tales, monster tends to eat people which makes them be classified under cannibals or carnivores. In this context, readers meet a specific giant who eat berries, milk, cheese, and bread, but do not kill other animals. The idea is supported by the quote “My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite: acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment” (Shelley 147). From this context, the monster tends to have different features that contradict those of cannibalism. Readers can perceive the monster to be a vegetarian, specifically as the monster was created to consume the other animals.
The other aspect explored in the story is based on the monster’s development depends on the atmosphere, and the time the monster was to exist in the world. The novel Frankenstein unravels a midnight atmosphere on a dreary November’ night where the rain pattern against the panes by the half-extinguished light’ glimmer. The atmosphere makes the monster to thrive in the darkness based on his visage, where darkness refers to ugliness and night. Also, daylight means companionship and beauty, which is a dream of every monster.
In this context, the monster’ origin evokes experiments stadia, where a scientist prepares the laboratory, collects specific materials, verifies accuracy, studies every significant resource, and completes the intention. In essence, Victor intentionally uses human bodies’ parts, such that, as the minuteness of the parts is created, the speed is hindered. The concepts reveal the most substantial evidence of enthusiasm and sources developed by the scientist to curb the challenges of any hasty experiment. Occasionally, Victor Frankenstein persistently pursues the decision to create a gigantic stature which is proportionally large and approximately eight feet in height (Shelly 47). From this perspective, readers understand that Victors does not perceive the monster as a man, which render him oblivious to see any problem that relates to the gigantic body and the monster appearance. Victor does not see the problem of incorporating the monster into the society as it is perceived as a prototype hidden to be at the scientific aims in the laboratory.
The relationship between the monster and the creator seems to be like that of a father-child relationship despite the machine not being born as a child. In usual circumstance, after the demise of a father, the father-child relationship ceases to exist. In this context, one of between the creator and the monster has to die, as the monster reveals that “ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us” (Shelley 97). The mortality question introduces the other aspect, a feature that depicts the existence of the monster in human nature. In other words, it displays that the monster is created on a human body part.
One of the traits that make Victor’s monster to have human aspects is the ability to use the brain to think and speak. In the past, the monstrous concept was linked to visual display where monsters were the exhibitions of moral vices. In the novel, the monster’ visibility is nothing, and the eloquence describes its identity. Arguably, the writer uses the monster to criticize human characters within society. Readers understand that Shelley uses philosophical questions based on the monster’ expresses and existence her surprise to a man’ composition. The writer argues that a man seems to be a mere scion of the evil principle that he hardly can fathom how a man can turn and kill his fellow (Shelley, 118). In this novel, the monster specifies that there ceases to be a flawless man. Such that money, power, and beauty do not define an honest and good man. In other words, a good looking man does not suggest that the man is happy. The monster in this novel does not imitate others as it recognizes the difference between individuals within different societies.
The writers take the monster via society structural depictions without understanding where it belongs. In this context, both the monster and the writer have interesting insights. At first, the monster does not want any comparison with human beings. In the other perspective, the monster has realized that it does not belong anywhere based on the concept that it is not a man. Thus, Shelley tries to strengthen the ultimate course of his writing by designing a monster that has supernatural forces. The monster becomes a result of scientific enthusiasm and a destroyer.
In the novel, characters are considered monstrous based on their behaviours that attract the reader’s attention. On his first encounter with Victor, Mr Walton seems to search a person who fled from him (Shelley 17). Victor replied by describing a person who appears to be a daemon (Shelley 18). Victor’ utter the statement and readers understand that the figure is an evil representative which incorporates every negative circumstance like any character in most narratives. Victor Frankenstein and Mr Walton express attitude and fear while depicting the monster as a daemon and a being (Shelley 15). In this context, readers are persuaded to follow Mr Walton’s lines of letters to his sister. Even though Victor perceives the monster as a “daemon, he understands that there ceases to be a demonic link with his monster’ structure.
The writers focus on displaying specific features of the monster such as ugliness where she has to incorporate simple details that may draw the reader’s attention by evoking supernatural forces’ atmosphere. For instance, the writer describes that “his limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his feature as beautiful. Beautiful!-Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath” (Shelley 50). Although the writer uses the monster to create fear, readers have to recognize the mastery of the novel based on writing technique. In this context, the writer tends to combine contradictions following the positive expression such as oxymoronic adjectives. In essence, words like “pearly witnesses” and “luxuriance” depicts the monster’s enormity (Shelley 50). Readers understand that the writer is a reviewer of her novel and evaluates the creation of the monster without seeking any assistance.
In the novel, the monster is displayed to have endless loneliness since its father and creator, and Victor disturb the most fundamental principle by abandoning the monster instead of raising it. In this context, the loneliness is considered as the main cause of the monster’s monstrosity. Such that the monster holds Victor’ responsible for the evil it has towards innocent people. The idea is supported by the phrase “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou divest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded” (Shelley 98). The monster view Victor as the creator who should be its guide via its life and stronger supporter as a father. In essence, Victor needs to introduce the monster into society by displaying its roots and origin to help the monster find its place in society. However, people are happy about new discoveries, but it takes time to persuade people to accept the invention. For that reason, the monster criticizes its creator of making its life without companionship and sending it to exile.
Readers understand that the monster chases Victor, which increases its misery and sorrow and challenges the creator’s animosity to encounter one another. The phrase is supported “Prepare! Your toils only begin; wrap yourself in furs, and provide, for we shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred” (Shelley 212). The monster intends to pressurize its creator also to feel its own life experience where he invites him to far places across the world where there ceases to be anyone. The monster strives to make Victor understand the outcomes of his actions and the absurdity to dismantle it. By inviting its creator to be uninhabited and distant places, the monster displays the life quality he has for himself. Readers sorrow are evoked by the fate of the monster based on the choices made between the life of happiness and the offered life. From this viewpoint, the monster could hardly choose between evil and good. The monster is displayed as a dangerous creature which cannot be controlled, including its designer, so the monster must be ended.
When the monster is killed, Victor justifies his action claiming that “He is eloquent and persuasive; and once his words had even power over my heart: but thrust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and friend-like malice” (Shelley 215). Mr Walton also gets in a better position to end the monster life but allow it to vindicate self. The monster claims that it can hardly believe that it was the same.
