The novel fiction Frankenstein was authored by Mary Shelley. The novel is about a science student, Victor Frankenstein, who, in his experiments, created a monster that could turn out to become a problem for him. He has always been attracted by nature. Victor endeavored to craft what he thought as excellence. He intended to create a creature that was beautiful, immortal, mighty, and of intelligence. He was trying to come up with a complete human being that is a physical manifestation of the spiritual man he is. To his surprise, he came up with an ugly and hideous figure from what he had coveted. Though he had prospered in carving his own image, he was puzzled by its unbelievable woe. Although he expected a beautiful image, his work resulted to what set him fleeing as he always did in times of adversity.
The monster had emotions and feelings and lacked most of the qualities Victor looked for. Though it could show gentleness, kindness, and love, it epitomized unexplainable wickedness. Its appearance turned out to be a huge problem that people even feared and hated him. However, it was not in him to slay people because there was a moment he tried to deliver a girl though he was afraid that someone wanted to kill him as he would, a giant (Sherry Ginn, F). One moment Victor's younger brother shouted when he saw the giant and as he tried to quiet the boy, he strangulated him. The monstrous being, therefore, requested Victor to recreate him as female so that he can flee with a companion never to come back to the public. Victor was not hesitant. He agreed to make him a female, but against his expectations, the monster produced undesirable consequences until Victor decided to kill it. The beast even paid back by killing the wives to Victor (Mary, 93). Hence, despite the many positive comments of success about this story, it also encountered negative reproaches from different authors.
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Many critics count it as a sickening novel. Alienation is the theme that is distinct to all the critics.
One of the criticisms concerning Frankenstein is through collected works – Professor S. Gin. The author's thesis defines the novel as a fiction of science because it is founded on legal, scientific investigation. The novel forecasts possible scientific discoveries in the imminent. I agree with the statement of the thesis for the novel gives out a humanistic evaluation of the actual pattern of scientific thoughtful or specific discoveries in technology. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein exposes various subjects hence the diversity of interpretations. Three main themes are evident namely: creation, parental nurture and responsibility, and alienation. As you read the novel, it is evident that Professor Sherry Gin is led to settle that the novel is a fiction of science. It might not be so logical like the modern narrative of science, but it means that Mary did not introduce a new factual genre.
This novel discloses Mary Shelley's unfairness in society, and they are evident as we study; for example the treatment given to the monster. Naturally, the novel is autobiographical, as Professor Gin argues due to the author’s need of a firm family and room for women empowerment. Another reason to support this is that based on all elements that are essential, all facts are the author’s life; a child without a mother, a child rejected by the father, a grieved mother crying for her deceased child, and an undergraduate student performing bewildering experimentations. Nevertheless, it’s not clear if Mary had the goal of accusing her father for his infantile mistreatment.
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Secondly, we have Naomi Hetherington’s criticism, a tutor at the university. She pursued Theology and Religion at Newnham College in Cambridge. Naomi has a degree in Masters from Victory Literature also known as Victorian in Manchester University and a Ph.D. from Southampton. Naomi has had four years' experience of teaching at London University in the Humanities and English Department. Naomi contends that the novel carries an allegoric genus. Her criticism differs from the first critique in that the latter declared that the story is autobiographic in various aspects. She claims the novel shines out with a Christian illustration of the aspect of conception and fall, with allusions of paganism from the fable of Prometheus and Zeus (Hetherington, 97). I therefore agree with Naomi’s thesis; that the novel is a story of a debate of the modern public and concerns scientific greed along the Christianity concept of the pre-existing eternal soul.
Conclusion
The two prominent critics differ in their perspectives because they appear to sightsee dissimilar themes offered in the novel. Professor Sherry Gin (the chief critique) argues that Mary needed to upgrade the place of fiction because it is founded on lawful scientific study, just as the novel presents a humanistic evaluation of wither the reality about logical thinking or explicit inventions of technology. On the other hand, the second critique, Naomi Hetherington, claims Mary to have desired to research about fiction and how it tastes, and what it implies to be human in this preent universe.
