... he leaves home shortly after his mother has passed away. At Ingolstadt, a highly prestigious university Victor begins to learn about all of the great minds in science and starts to understand the human body and its wants, needs, and basic way of life. He wants to do something exceptionally wonderful for the scientific world, to be known as an incredible scientist. "A new ... completely as I should deserve their's. Pursuing these reflection, I thought, that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time renew life where death had apparently devoted the body ...

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... role of God throughout the entire book. Victor had a relatively good childhood, which can cause one to wonder why he became this way. He starts to think as if he is God when he excels in his studies in college. Throughout the novel, a common theme of self-centeredness continually ... the role of God was with the creation of his human being, which turned out to be a complete horror to him. It all starts when Victor becomes fascinated with natural philosophy and chemistry. He begins to think of how an animal is provided with life. Victor says, "After ... labor and fatigue, I succeeded in ...

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... makes people fear and reject them. While the Monster's ugliness consists only in his physical appearance, Hyde's attaches more to his soul than to his body. Hyde is hideous, wicked and therefore represents evil. He is a strange, offensive man who looks faintly pre-human. There is something that makes ... everyone is aware of the Monster's awful appearance, which ironically, right at the first sight horrifies Victor. He has a grotesque smile, shape, and a body with enormous strength and speed. His presence causes an old man to tremble and run away in fear. In the village, people flee at th...

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... his works after prototype. With the wispy "light" he follows, he then proceeds his ardor with perseverance, he uses his unprecedented technology to successfully endow a life on a dead body which is assembled from different dead bodies. But this creature has a rotten sense, rather than the beautiful, lively image that Frankenstein sees previously. It is true that he has a robust ... body and kind of advanced logic, but anyhow, this creature which is created by humans, having the similar body structure with humans, having the same individual will that humans have, tremendously strikes Fra...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... house as his lab to create the monster. Besides, the charnel-houses, dissecting room, and also the slaughter-house supply many of the materials to Frankenstein. He applies these dead body parts to piecing up the appearance of the monster. At the last step of his experiment, he collects all the instrument of life and infuses a spark of being into the ... monster. Then, on a rainy day at midnight, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, the monster opens its dull yellow eye. It starts breathing with a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. The monster is alive. On the contrary, in t...

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... house as his lab to create the monster. Besides, the charnel-houses, dissecting room, and also the slaughter-house supply many of the materials to Frankenstein. He applies these dead body parts to piecing up the appearance of the monster. At the last step of his experiment, he collects all the instrument of life and infuses a spark of being into the ... monster. Then, on a rainy day at midnight, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, the monster opens its dull yellow eye. It starts breathing with a convulsive motion agitating its limbs. The monster is alive. On the contrary, in ...

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... Monster seems noble: "I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now find it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. However, beneath Victor's elegant and philanthropic surface lies a more unattractive trait, which makes readers doubt whether his true intentions with the creation really were as noble as he ... the creation, before venturing upon the task of creating a living thing. When he leaves his family with the intention of studying science at the university in Ingolstadt in Germa...

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... -extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs" (58). That is the point in the novel when she starts to describe the features of Frankenstein's creation. At this point, she makes it easy for the reader to generate an unpleasant vision of the discolored being. The reader is not ... given much information on what body parts were used to build the monster. He or she only knows that Frankenstein had used the body parts of large males. This scene in the book is very important because this is the first time Fran...

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... genre. It centralizes on Herster Haper the eccentric, crippled and surrogate mother to Katherine, an unwanted child who together commit a crime. Adding to this psychological thriller is the apparent mystery body down the well. Gothic novels are horror stories of a more or less macabre nature exploring the darker side of life. They are tales of the supernatural, the paranormal, and set ... change over to beef died. It is these sentences that causes the reader to feel bewildered by the inappropriateness of the information to which the sentence actually leads. The sentence starts with a ly...

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... idea of bringing in his "own "family member when his mother passed away. Elizabeth was very precious to him and he cared for her tremendously. "No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me - my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only" (35). This phrase right here shows ... between the both of them and since they were not really brother/sister it was okay for them to have this kind of relationship in the family. When the Monster starts killing his family members one by one, he makes Victor contemplate the idea of what it is like...

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... my beloved Elizabeth . . . tears . . . [stream] from my eyes" (161). On his wedding night, Victor hears a "shrill and dreadful scream" (168). Victor goes into the room and finds his wife's lifeless body draped across the bed. After Elizabeth's death Victor declares: "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change" (188). Elizabeth's death is a huge burden on Victor ... he tries to warn Walton of the risks. The only thing that Victor believes can console him is to hunt the creature down and kill him. At this point, Victor starts to lose human qualities and character...

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• Grade Level: High School