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taglamigssssssszssszz · 3 years ago

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Frankenstein👨‍🔬✍🦿

A Short Literary Text Analysis

Critique by Jan Yzabel A. Gaza (12 - Wyeth)

The novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, was a masterpiece meant to enlighten everyone about how our obsessive ambitions, irresponsibility, ignorance, and even our differences might lead to a different unpleasant circumstances. It was a lovely story with a satisfying resolution. It reminds me of how their society works from the time it was released until now. This story is more than just a story written in 1818; it is a masterpiece that exposes the reader to a new level of experience by demonstrating how alienation and ambition can destroy people, relationships, and even people's lives.

I recall being enthralled by the author's use of several characters to explain their experiences to the audience while reading the novel. The first is Robert Wilson's perspective, in which I saw him as a dreamer who aspires to do something enormous that ordinary people at the time couldn't possibly attain. Wilson's point of view was a fresh start in showing the audience the possible future serious scenarios of the stories, which mostly focus on Victor Frankenstein's ambition and obsessions to build and find something huge about life's mystery. In addition, I was taken aback by the author's presentation of the various issues that are currently affecting the world, particularly when the author began describing the monster's condition. Many people who will read the novel will, I believe, expect the monster, the story's antagonist, who is characterized as terrible and horrifying, to be a bad creature. However, he is not an evil person by nature. He was only a victim of society's harsh treatment of him. He was no different from us in that he is a creature who just seeks love and companionship, but all he receives from others is hatred and wickedness.

I constantly remember Victor Frankenstein's life lesson, which is it was natural for us, as humans, to seek answers to our never-ending curiousities. T However, the story reminds us that "nothing is impossible," and we can achieve anything in this world with the right information and experiences. However, we must constantly keep in mind our limitations as human beings. Because we are only humans, God's creation. We should never cross the line that has been set for us, and everyone should learn from Frankenstein's life. In addition, I'd like to bring up the situation of the monster, with whom I sympathize. That society was hard on him because of his appearance. That society punished him cruelly due of his appearance, which I believe he did not deserve. In conclusion, I will keep in mind that when you look closely at a story, there is always more to it. Not everything that we see in other people, or what we imagine others to be, is true. Like the monster, who appeared to be an awful, terrible beast on the outside but was really just an average person escaping alienation on the inside. In life, sometimes the man we think is good is actually the bad guy. So, in conclusion, as human beings, we must always be open-minded, embrace the differences of others. And to always assess the situation before engaging into something that could haunt you in the rest of your life.

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References

Mary Shelley Biography, Works, and Quotes. (n.d.). SparkNotes. Retrieved December 8, 2021, from https://www.sparknotes.com/author/mary-shelley/

SparkNotes. (n.d.-a). Frankenstein: Full Text. Retrieved December 8, 2021, from https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/full-text/

SparkNotes. (n.d.-b). Frankenstein: Point of View. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/point-of-view/

V. (2010, October 13). Video SparkNotes: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein summary [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRppXdKDY_c&feature=youtu.be

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Submitted to Mr. Darren Joe Follero

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World (21LN11S)

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[Yayyy! It’s already 6:16 AM, I can finally sleep! Bye! Good mornight! <33]

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autistic-victor-frankenstein · 4 years ago

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Did you read the 1818 or 1831 Frankenstein? Or if you read both, which one do you prefer?

I think the version I had was 1831? But I may have read a mix. I initially started reading the book for class as an assignment, and later on when the pandemic hit,and I no longer had access to the books/the online one my teacher gave was shit,I found out that sparknotes has not just the summary but like. The entire book out there free to read. That's where I read from Victors loss of Clerval til the end.

Whether or not I read a mix,I've looked the 1818 ones and 1831 ones that compare the differences pretty religiously,and whilst I can't recall every detail from the top of my head,I'd say I don't really have much of a preference entirely?? Some good things were added and some not so good too.

#i think that whoever didnt let the quote in about victor hating his marriage and not seeing Elizabeth like that in is a coward.#i think that was in a ver called the thomas text which was i think a draft of 1831??#but anyway. yea.

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lostitfernmargetson · 5 years ago

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein is written in the form of a frame story that starts with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister. It takes place at an unspecified time in the 18th century, as the letters' dates are given as "17—". In the story following the letters by Walton, the readers find that Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that brings tragedy to his life.

In a series of letters, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister back in England the progress of his dangerous mission. Successful early on, the mission is soon interrupted by seas full of impassable ice. Trapped, Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling by dog-drawn sledge across the ice and is weakened by the cold. Walton takes him aboard ship, helps nurse him back to health, and hears the fantastic tale of the monster that Frankenstein created.

Victor first describes his early life in Geneva. At the end of a blissful childhood spent in the company of Elizabeth Lavenza (his cousin in the 1818 edition, his adopted sister in the 1831 edition) and friend Henry Clerval, Victor enters the university of Ingolstadt to study natural philosophy and chemistry. There, he is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life and, after several years of research, becomes convinced that he has found it.

Armed with the knowledge he has long been seeking, Victor spends months feverishly fashioning a creature out of old body parts. One climactic night, in the secrecy of his apartment, he brings his creation to life. When he looks at the monstrosity that he has created, however, the sight horrifies him. After a fitful night of sleep, interrupted by the specter of the monster looming over him, he runs into the streets, eventually wandering in remorse. Victor runs into Henry, who has come to study at the university, and he takes his friend back to his apartment. Though the monster is gone, Victor falls into a feverish illness.

Sickened by his horrific deed, Victor prepares to return to Geneva, to his family, and to health. Just before departing Ingolstadt, however, he receives a letter from his father informing him that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. Grief-stricken, Victor hurries home. While passing through the woods where William was strangled, he catches sight of the monster and becomes convinced that the monster is his brother’s murderer. Arriving in Geneva, Victor finds that Justine Moritz, a kind, gentle girl who had been adopted by the Frankenstein household, has been accused. She is tried, condemned, and executed, despite her assertions of innocence. Victor grows despondent, guilty with the knowledge that the monster he has created bears responsibility for the death of two innocent loved ones.

Hoping to ease his grief, Victor takes a vacation to the mountains. While he is alone one day, crossing an enormous glacier, the monster approaches him. The monster admits to the murder of William but begs for understanding. Lonely, shunned, and forlorn, he says that he struck out at William in a desperate attempt to injure Victor, his cruel creator. The monster begs Victor to create a mate for him, a monster equally grotesque to serve as his sole companion.

Victor refuses at first, horrified by the prospect of creating a second monster. The monster is eloquent and persuasive, however, and he eventually convinces Victor. After returning to Geneva, Victor heads for England, accompanied by Henry, to gather information for the creation of a female monster. Leaving Henry in Scotland, he secludes himself on a desolate island in the Orkneys and works reluctantly at repeating his first success. One night, struck by doubts about the morality of his actions, Victor glances out the window to see the monster glaring in at him with a frightening grin. Horrified by the possible consequences of his work, Victor destroys his new creation. The monster, enraged, vows revenge, swearing that he will be with Victor on Victor’s wedding night.

Later that night, Victor takes a boat out onto a lake and dumps the remains of the second creature in the water. The wind picks up and prevents him from returning to the island. In the morning, he finds himself ashore near an unknown town. Upon landing, he is arrested and informed that he will be tried for a murder discovered the previous night. Victor denies any knowledge of the murder, but when shown the body, he is shocked to behold his friend Henry Clerval, with the mark of the monster’s fingers on his neck. Victor falls ill, raving and feverish, and is kept in prison until his recovery, after which he is acquitted of the crime.

Shortly after returning to Geneva with his father, Victor marries Elizabeth. He fears the monster’s warning and suspects that he will be murdered on his wedding night. To be cautious, he sends Elizabeth away to wait for him. While he awaits the monster, he hears Elizabeth scream and realizes that the monster had been hinting at killing his new bride, not himself. Victor returns home to his father, who dies of grief a short time later. Victor vows to devote the rest of his life to finding the monster and exacting his revenge, and he soon departs to begin his quest.

Victor tracks the monster ever northward into the ice. In a dogsled chase, Victor almost catches up with the monster, but the sea beneath them swells and the ice breaks, leaving an unbridgeable gap between them. At this point, Walton encounters Victor, and the narrative catches up to the time of Walton’s fourth letter to his sister.

Walton tells the remainder of the story in another series of letters to his sister. Victor, already ill when the two men meet, worsens and dies shortly thereafter. When Walton returns, several days later, to the room in which the body lies, he is startled to see the monster weeping over Victor. The monster tells Walton of his immense solitude, suffering, hatred, and remorse. He asserts that now that his creator has died, he too can end his suffering. The monster then departs for the northernmost ice to die.

Source: Sparknotes

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