Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein is a 200 year old book written by Mary Shelley and the plot is about a Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster made from the parts of people who have died, which he wanted to resemble a man, but he is not viewed well by the public and things dont go very well.

It is a short novel, only 24 chapters, which is good as i think it works, its named science fiction,but there are nothing to show this except for Frankenstein creating the monster. He created a female companion for the monster, but all goes wrong and he has to destroy her and thats makes the monster want to hurt him.The novel is very slow and starts with when Frankenstein is young and then into after he has created the monster. Some of it is hard to read, as it is quite old, as it is the language is of that era. 


Victor Frankenstein at the start seems very smart and innocent and he starts to read books and becomes interested in philosophy, but he gets into the scientific way of thinking, as he studies in Ingolstadt at the University intending lectures with professors and finding out things and what he wants to do.

I think that it shows the way it was suppose to happen, not like the movie version with quotes such as "Its Alive", which i think sounds like a cheesy line and was a way to make it interesting, but he doesnt actually really say very much when he creates him, it kind of skips it, and i think that Frankenstein really regrets it though, as he rejects him and the monster doesnt understand or like it, so he goes and tries to destroy everything his maker has and holds dear to him.

 Frankenstein was a good scientist, but when creating this, and he thinks about the consequences later, so the novel shows more of what the monster did afterwards and how Frankenstein dealt with it. Its show his character to be very selfish as he makes it and then decides he doesnt want it as soon as the murders start, so then you are left thinking why did he makes this creature.

Overall at the start Frankenstein studies very hard and hardly leaves his laboratory, as he wants research and experiment, so he has hardly slept at all, as he has had his mind and body on it so much. He seems very obsessed with creating this and seems very anxious of what will happen, but as you get into the novel he seems to be scared of what will become of him as he has created this, because he retreats to his room, very nervous, pacing up and down, when he eventually falls in bed with his clothes still on.

It seems as though he doesnt want to be around this thing and fears it, and even calls it a daemon, and doesnt see him as to do any good, and even suspects he could have murdered his brother, as he thinks no human could do so, and which is why he has come back to his home town of Geneva and to find out who did do so.




























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