... tries to convince Victor to create a female counterpart for him, but when Victor destroys the female the Monster swears revenge against Victor, promising to be with him on his wedding night. The Monster subsequently murders Henry Clerval and implicates Victor for the murder. After Victor is acquitted, he marries Elizabeth and on their wedding ... night the Monster murders Elizabeth, fulfilling his promise that he would be with Victor and Elizabeth on their wedding night. Consequently, Victor's father dies of grief and Victor is driven mad with grief and guilt. The Monster's pursuit of t...

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... insane fondness for the dead; he surrounds himself with death, projecting the love for his mother onto all of the bodies and bones that are his constant companions day and night. "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree I shunned my fellow-creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime" (60). Victor feels the guilt of ... in the light of day. When not with man, he is usually found in a climate of ice. Victor describes events from his life, which mostly occur in the dark of night. Victor spends most of his isolation in boats on the water, ...

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... fallacy, when the weather is used to create atmosphere, mood and to establish emotions. Particularly the weather is related with what is about to happen, and Shelley often uses the night, and stormy weather to signify that something bad is about to happen. At the beginning of chapter five the creature is brought to life and the ... night was described as 'a dreary night' and the rain 'pattered dismally against the panes'. This immediately sets the scene, and the reader senses a feeling or foreboding about what is about to happen. During chapter seventeen Frankenstein ... ...

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... (pitty). Initially, the monster had been stealing some of the family's food and firewood as a way to secure his own self-preservation, he states "I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption; but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and ... how his actions were causing the family pain and suffering he sacrifices his own self-preservation out of compassion, and tries to ease the family's suffering by "during the night, I often took his tools, the use of wh...

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... aboard the vessel. This man answers to the name of Frankenstein. It is here Frankenstein retells the story of one dreary night in November when he "beheld the accomplishment of his toils" (34). In chapter five Victor recalls the night he gave his monster life by the spark of electricity. Likewise in the Greek myth, Prometheus also gives life to ... ...

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... he believes his intelligence and eloquence will allow them to accept him. Victor obsesses over the fact that the monster will attack Victor himself instead of Elizabeth, on his wedding night as he believes "the daemon [would] employ every art to destroy me". Victor fears the monster will strike directly at him and neglects the possibility that he will ... attack anyone else out of his fear and naivety. However, on his wedding night, upon hearing Elizabeth scream he says "the whole truth rushed into my mind". He has realised he was naive and is now helpless to prevent catastrophe. This c...

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... an important role in foreshadowing dark evil acts, events and confrontation to come in the novel. In foreshadowing the birth of the creature, the weather was described as being "a dreary night" with "the rain pattered dismally against the panes". The bleak weather therefore, serves as an indication of the hideous result to come of Victor's creation. It is important to note ... of creating the creature and Victor's inability to realise the vulnerability of others around him from the creature's attack also resulted in the violent death of Elizabeth on her wedding night. Shelley described ...

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... so entirely fixated on himself that he cannot even comprehend the possibility that the monster would not target him when given the threat: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night." (p163). Just as Rousseau remained unmoved by the impact his selfish ambitions had on his mistress and their children, Frankenstein proved knowledgeable only to how his creation would affect himself ... work from familial affections is what leads directly to his downfall. In the absence of the familial, feminine characteristics in Frankenstein's life, madness, social isolation and physical sickness result -...

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... as the monster of the book. Shelley incorporates Gothic elements in her writing when Victor explains that no one could "conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air" (Shelley 50). The usage of the word "anguish" and the presentation of a gloomy, dreary atmosphere through visual imagery ... ...

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... inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream" (173). Instead of staying with her and guarding her on his wedding night, he patrols the premises. Elizabeth became a victim to the game of insanity and male-centered mayhem. She has been demeaned to just a tool that can be used as revenge. Though ... ...

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... not appreciate Mary's fictions because it conflicted with the beliefs of religious doctrines that held God as the creator of all live. Frankenstein's theme was based on a question discussed the night of June 22 "whether or not the principle of life could be discovered and whether scientists could galvanize a corpse of manufactured humanoid" (Woodbridge Summer of 1816). As very many critical ... ...

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... is derived from twentieth century imaginations and interests, not the novel itself. For good reason, the novelist chose not to begin her story with the chilling event of the dreary night in November. Instead of a major event, the book opens with a series of letters from Robert Walton. It is not his want for the voyage of discovery, but his obsession with ... ...

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... as a male-mother is visible after the creation of the monster, when Frankenstein's health deteriorates. Frankenstein's description of his condition can be compared with that of a woman giving birth: "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree". While these circumstances appear to support the theory of Frankenstein as being a mother in the basic sense, Shelley ... ...

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... this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. Before he gives life to the monster, Frankenstein shuns the creature because of his appearance but he continues to ... ...

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... achieve a union with both the natural and human order by taming fire. He learns to tame his fire to his own purposes, using it to provide warmth, light during the night, and heat for cooking his food. More importantly, he attempts to connect himself with the De Lacey family by bringing them gifts, which are bundles of firewood. But finally, this ... ...

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... an advantage to the animals since fire gave man the ability to make weapons and tools. Prometheus is punished now by Zeus who chained him to a rock in Caucasus. Every night, he's been visited by an eagle who eat from his liver grow back to its original state: I shall nail you in bonds of indissoluble bronze on this crag far from ... ...

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