Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed ... own Father, Victor tells himself, "I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable, " "the raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favorite authors" (Shelley 46). Victor wants to cure disease and raise the dead: perhaps, he wants to reuni...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate