... and him, and their perfect compassion for their neighbors which leads his mother to adopt Elizabeth from an impoverished family. Elizabeth is the perfect sister, companion, confidant, friend, and mooorrre. Chapter Two: A second son, Earnest, is born. We meet Victor's perfect friend, Henry Clerval, a lover of medieval romance literature. Victor's own obsession is with magic and science and the blurry lines ... has just arrived to visit. He brings Clerval back into his rooms, whereupon find that the monster has disappeared; he suffers the first of several complete mental and physical brea...

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... the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me- (Chapter 10) Sometimes we as humans cannot love or accept somebody if it is ugly. We always look for beauty first. This reaction could be explained as ... open country, and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village."(Chapter 11) Racism is an obvious similarity with Frankenstein and today's society. These similarities are shown the moment that the monster is brought into this wo...

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... that I actually skimmed over to perform my analysis allowed me to begin reading from two main angles. Either I could begin at the Table of Contents and read one chapter at a time - read a chapter, back to the Table of Contents, read another chapter, back to the Table of contents. This form I found very discontinuous and disconcerting. I could choose to begin and end with whatever ... chapter I so choose. While for a hypertextual work this porosity forms an essential ingredient in the whole process, for a traditional piece of literature I found this method very unsettling. The second man...

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... of the 1790's and her mother wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. After miscarrying a baby, she had dreams, one of which became chapter 4 of Frankenstein. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a gothic science-fiction novel told through the letters of Robert Walton, who, in his letters ... word choices are very formal and stiff in spots, very close to Shakespearean language, this example of formal, stiff language is from the beginning of chapter ten: "I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a g...

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... as. Are we all born initially good? Is evil something humans learn or is it some thing in our animal instinct we all have? The first chapter I"m going to analyse is chapter five. In this chapter the Monster is created by Frankenstein but is rejected thus starting the whole problem of neglect. Frankenstein's response to his creation was one of horror and regret ... while Frankenstein was ill this makes the Creation's advances seem even bigger and shows the Creature's natural instinct to learn giving a case that nature is stronger than nurture. Next in chapter sixteen the Creature saves a...

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... can be read on so many levels. In many respects it is a traditional horror story. As a reader we are first confronted with the typical horror scene at the beginning of chapter 5. We are cast into "dreary nights in November" and "rain pattering dismally against the panes". She certainly follows the convention in many respects, and successfully sets the scene and creates ... , were turned on their head as we came to the second half of the book and the monster spoke for himself Frankenstein's monster is first "born" at the beginning of chapter five. He has been hinted at before, but this is...

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... vengeful because the isolation fueled hatred and anger within him. Ultimately he just wanted Victor to experience the same pain that he, himself had had. The Monster expressed this in chapter 10 by saying "All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy ... time of animation by calling him a "fiend", "wretch" and "daemon". In the scene were Victor finally gives life to his monster he suddenly is not excited any longer and in chapter 5 he states this very clearly "I had desired it with an ardou...

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... has "pale yellow skin", which describes the non-human looks. The weather features frequently in the novel as a reflection of impending doom and tragedy, such as the opening words in chapter 5, where the setting for Frankenstein's monster happens on a "dreary night of November", with the rain, "pattering dismally against the panes", of Frankenstein's laboratory. In ... chapter 5 Frankenstein tried to create a beautiful being, but is disgusted by its ugliness. This is where Frankenstein abandons the creature at birth when it is most in need. Frankenstein also feels ... sickened by what ...

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... and radical feminist, passed away 10 days after her birth, leaving her and her half sister to be cared by her father, William Godwin. Her father married their neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, who was a widow and had two children of her own. Shelley began her writing when she was very young, and she was observing many other writers becoming interested in ... ...

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... and radical feminist, passed away 10 days after her birth, leaving her and her half sister to be cared by her father, William Godwin. Her father married their neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, who was a widow and had two children of her own. Shelley began her writing when she was very young, and she was observing many other writers becoming interested in ... ...

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... he loved his daughters, the responsibility of raising them on his own was too much for him and soon began looking for a wife. Godwin married four years later to Mary Jane Clairmont. She turned out to be a mean and shallow woman who favored her own two children over Mary and Fanny. Mary was a lively child and was often treated unfairly by ... ...

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Chapter 10 Frankenstein's decision to hear the monster's story does not redeem him in my eyes. Frankenstein has acted very unjust and irresponsible to his creation and will have to do ... out if he really killed his brother and just out of plain curiousity. That is why Frankenstein's decision to hear the monster's story does not redeem him in my eyes. Chapter 11 When the monster is exposed to society for the first time, the society treats the monster badly and immediately see's him as a cold blooded murderer. They start to run ... ...

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... monsters but on that account we shall be attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free of the misery I now feel (chapter 17). Victor received the orders and clearly understood them. Had he created a mate, the monster would have banished to a far away land: "If you consent [to create a mate], neither you ... can help him climb out of his depression and state of loneliness: "[Victor must create] A female for me, whom I can love with and interchange those sympathies necessary for my being" (Chapter 17 page 153). The monster is just looking for som...

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... by the crowds and are banned for the reason of being different. This is the case of the wretch; he first broke the "standard" when he entered that town. In chapter 11 the wretch states, "One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted ... to not be accepted by the figure that created of him. Victor Frankenstein was one of the individuals of that community that saw him as an abhorred and evil. In chapter 10 Victor says to the wretch, "Devil," I exclaimed, "do you dare approach me? And do not yo...

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... , will I achieve; treading in steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." Page 33 Victor says this in Chapter 3 as he is explaining to Walton how his chemistry professor, M. Waldman, ignited in him an irrepressible desire to gain knowledge of the "secret of life." Victor refers to himself in ... the same time, many questioned these humanist notions, stressing the limits of human capacity. Shelley details this theme in her book, making an allusion to the counter- humanist idea in chapter four when Vict...

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... himself to let go of his creation proving that playing god will unconsciously blind the consequences of his actions. Victor makes the most "memorable" decision in the first chapter of the book by choosing his "future destiny" (pg.63) in leaving his loving family in Geneva to go study alchemy, natural philosophy and rudimentary physics. "No ... ...

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... will unfold. In Frankenstein, the two main characters, Victor, and Frankenstein are in an intimate setting where they take the role of "Master (parent) and Slave (child)". In chapter 5 of the creature's creation, Victor is alone with the progress of his work thus far. Even with the body of the creature inanimate, it is clear to see Victor playing ... ...

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... he should act. The monster cannot befriend anyone in society, except a blind man because he does not run in fear when he sees the monsters grotesque features. For instance, in chapter 14 when he speaks to the blind man, he accepts the monster but when the couple return back to the cottage they chase the creature out and beat him. This ... ...

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... through his creation. Although Dr. Frankenstein has come to realize his mistake in creating the Burns 3 monster, he is excited while explaining the search for scientific knowledge to Walton. In chapter three of the novel, Walton's voyage for a passage to the other side of the world is on the brink of destruction, and Victor is pushing his ambitious nature upon Walton ... ...

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... to side with the previous three definitions, Frankenstein's monster does in fact have a soul. According to the first definition, a soul is the immaterial essence, animating principle of an individual life. Chapter 11 begins the Monster's story. From this time on he begins to learn with no recollection of a past, just like a new born baby. "One Day, when I was oppressed by cold ... ...

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... creates him and then runs from him, because he just realises what a dangerous thing he has done, he abandons him. In birth the creature is described near the beginning of chapter four of the first volume as one whose "yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath- of one whose " hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing- of ... ...

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