Frankenstein´s monster

Based on documentary: Mary Shelley's Monster

1.    Define Romanticism

This was an artistic and intellectual era. This movement put emphasis on freedom, emotion and imagination. Through art people could express their feelings. They would rather paint rural places than urban ones. Nature , landscapes ,cathedrals, sun shines were the preferred paintings in that time.

2.    Who was Mary Shelley? What were her contributions to Literature?

 

She was an English novelist writer. She is known for one of the best known gothic novel: Frankenstein. One of her contributions to literature was to create the most memorable monster Frankenstein. Her parents also left an important legacy for liberalism and feminism.

3.    How did Frankestein come about? 

It reflects the family´s life. Mary and her sister Fanny had a big depression because of their mother´s death, also due to the stepmother who was completely different as their mother. Besides, the loneliness and indifference of their father. Frankenstein is a monster who is alone and abandoned by his creator, the same as Mary who was alive but her mother was death.

4.    Briefly discuss Frankestein's plot.

A man named Victor Frankenstein was a scientist who born in Switzerland. He made a lot of studies of how to make a person alive. He created a monster that become his worst nightmare. Times goes and Victor forgot about his creation until the day that his sister is murdered. He thinks that the monster was responsible for that crime so Victor starts to look for it desperately. He finally finds him and the creature have learned many important information such as how to read, how to survive in the hills and cold and he already know that human beings do not like him. This monster tells Victor that he have been miserable, lonely and he needs him to create another creature for him to share. So Victor agrees with the creature but in the moment when Victor is in the laboratory he gets scared that the new creature could be even more devil than the other so he destroys the work but the creature saw what he did. Furious, he swore revenge. Weeks later, Victor married Elizabeth Lavenza the women who he has always been in love with. After that Elizabeth appeared death by the creature. Victor looks everywhere to kill the creature but in a trip he dies. After that, the creature cries in Victor´s coffin and then he dies.

5.    What themes are present in this novel? Explain

The relative indifference: it shows how the creator of a creature refuse to love and help what he has done.

Death: the death of people loved is shown as something that hurts and destroys welfare.

Guiltiness: it is described when Victor´s relatives die, he feels devastated and guilty because of the creation of a monster.

The harshness: it is reflected when people mistreats the monster which is reflected in Mary´s life by her step mother.