The Monster 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. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

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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 roots, which I gathered from a neighboring wood" (Frankenstein, 77). Observing how his actions were causing the family pain and suffering he sacrifices his own self-preservation out of compassion, and tries to ease the fami...

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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". ... However, on his wedding night, upon hearing Elizabeth scream he says "the whole truth rushed into my mind". ...

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Due to the time period in which a book is written, many misperceptions in the reality of relations between men and women as a utilitarian society arise. Mary Shelley explicitly expresses the unequal, yet made to seem inertial distribution of power and ranking solely into the hands of men in Frankens...

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Frankenstein Discuss the significance of the role of the mother in "Frankenstein". Throughout Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", there are many examples of mother and child relationships that are expressed both implicitly and explicitly. The crucial element of the inclusion of the role of the mot...

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. Also her husband Percy Shelley wrote a number of poems and was greatly into the Romantic Movement. Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley...

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A classic gothic novel emphasises fear and terror. It has the presence of the supernatural, the placements of events within a distant time and an unfamiliar and mysterious setting. Romantic writer Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein conforms to these conventional "classic" Gothic traits as well as t...

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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). ...

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Even after the death of his brother William, friend Justine and lifetime companion Clerval, he remains 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." ... In the absence of the familial, feminine characteristics in Frankenstein's life, madness, social isolation and physical sickness result - "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree... and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime....

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Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, is a modern Titan Prometheus of Greek mythology in his desire to overcome man's limitations and gain God-like power. The full title of Shelly's novel and the influence of the myth of Prometheus Bound may be noted. For the romantics Prometheus be...

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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). ...

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GCSE Prose Coursework: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein At the time Shelley was writing her novel, "Frankenstein", the world was discovering things daily, so her writings were relevant and justified at that time. Many scientists and explorers of the nineteenth century were conquering new ideas and dis...

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. J.A. HADFIELD The essence of the Frankenstei...

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