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Frankenstein
Published in 1818, Frankenstein, the full title of which is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel with Gothic elements and Romantic ideals written by Mary Shelley. It warns against the unchecked pursuit of scientific knowledge. The story describes how Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, creates a powerful man-like being whose horrific appearance makes him a lonely outcast. When Frankenstein will not create a mate for the being, his creation decides to take revenge. In the book, the creature built by Frankenstein is never given a name.
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Where did Mary Shelley get her inspiration for Frankenstein?
dr frankenstien was based on a very real German "mad scientist" who allegedly attempted to electronically conjoin and revive dead body parts
How does Victor Frankenstein think that his creation will regard him?
Victor fears the creature's power. He fears that it will harm his family, friends, and other people with his size, strength, and frightening appearance. He's also afraid that, if a female creature is created and they procreate, Victor will have been responsible for creating a race that is a danger to humankind.
Where did Robert Walton hire the ship and crew for his trip in Frankenstein?
the ship gets stuck in ice
Actually I don't think it would have been wise for him to make a female creature.
The creature told Frankenstein that if he would make him a wife,
he and she would go far away from the world of men and he would
never again harm a living thing. Frankenstein, as many people know,
did not do this, fearing that the female might not agree with the creature's
plans or that they would hate each other. This, in my opinion, would to little
to change the creature's ways. Besides this, there is not telling what the female's
actions would be. Also, Frankenstein thought, even if she did agree to join the creature in exile, they might reproduce, and so he destroyed the nearly completed female,
setting the creature on to more murders.
The solution to the reproductive problem, of course, is devastatingly simple:
Frankenstein should simply have built a female without reproductive organs.
What is the story of Frankenstein about?
Frankenstein turns to forbidden sciences and discovers how to recreate life. When he does, however, he believes that he has created a monster and flees. The monster chases him and demands that he creates a "mate" for him. Frankenstein almost does, but winds up refusing. The monster kills everyone close to him. He turns to pursue the monster. He dies. A sailor finds his written works and tries to continue the quest. the book ends.
Who was Frankenstein author Mary Shelley's father?
Her father was William Godwin (1756-1836), an anarchist philosopher and one of the earliest proponents of utilitarianism.
What novel was written by Mary Shelley at the age of 19?
Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
Why is chapter 5 in Frankenstein so crucial to the whole novel?
In Chapter 5, Victor is successful in bringing his creation to life. However, he becomes horrified because of the creature's appearance. He runs from the room and does not return until the creature has left. This leaves the creature all alone and without a guide or father-figure. At first the creature is good and well-meaning. But without Victor or anyone to guide him, he must find out about life by himself and people treat him terribly. This eventually leads to the creature's change into a monster and the death of most of Victor's family and other important people in Victor's life. So this chapter serves to set up the change in both the creature and the creator.
When the monster and Frankenstein finally meet again how are they different?
frankenstein is tortured by guilt whereas the monster is tortured by rejection
How is Frankenstein compared with the modern Prometheus?
Prometheus was one who, in Greek mythology, stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. As punishment for his misdeeds, Zeus, chained Prometheus to a rock and sentenced him to have his innards pecked out everyday by vultures.
Dr. Frankenstein is a fictional character in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. In the novel, the doctor creates life using ground-breaking technology and methodology. His experiments climax when he reanimates a dead man, which he had stitched together from several corpses of other dead men. Not moments after his creature had come to life, Frankenstein was filled with hate and disgust for his 'son'.
Frankenstein was essentially 'punished'. He had stolen a gift of the gods -in this case life, as opposed to fire- and now had to have his innards eaten out, so to speak. His punishment was that he hated his own creation, which he thought he would love unconditionally.
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is a fantastic novel that can be seen as a trial of the soul, a political allegory, an existential work, representation of Greek mythology and so forth, but, what it ultimately tells the reader is a tale about human nature and discovering who you are and what your purpose is on Earth. Hope this helps!
Where is the Frankenstein letter writer located?
No, Robert Walton was writing the letters to his sister, Margret. In the fourth letter, he was telling her about Victor, who later tells Robert his story. Victor created the Frankenstein monster.
How did Frankenstein and Clerval spend the next several months?
False. It takes Frankenstein 4 months to recover then decides to go home when his 5 year old brother is found murdered.
When was the first Frankenstein film made?
The very first movie about Frankenstein was made in 1910 starring Charles Ogle as Frankenstein. It ran for 16 minutes and was a silent movie. The very first talking movie about Frankenstein was produced in 1931 and starred Boris Karloff as Frankenstein. It was simply called "Frankenstein". It was based on a book by Mary Shelley. There have been many movies and TV shows about this character made.
What is the full name of Frankenstein?
Victor Frankenstein Remember- Frankenstein is the creator not the monster!
All of their emotional responses are overly-intense as the Romantics fancied themselves
preternaturally aware of sensory and emotional experience.
Dr. Frankestein never had any children. He was engaged to marry Elizabeth but the monster killed her.
In Mary shellys Frankenstein who played the monster?
The Frankenstein monster: Boris Karloff
Victor (Henry in the movie) Frankenstein: Colin Clive
What books should Frankenstein's creature have read?
Frankenstein did not read the books. It was the 'monster.' But the four books were Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, the Sorrows of Werter, and I guess you could consider the fourth to be Volney's Ruins of Empires. (Found in Chapter 12 & 15)
How is victor Frankenstein a byronic hero?
Because he is an incredibly seductive and desirable yet quit a flawed male lead character.
Not only is educated, attractive, socially and sexually dominant: he has lived for more than a century and inherited his family estate, he had time to gathered money. Above all those things he sees himself as a monster, his looks makes him irrestible to humans being wich is a good way to lure his victims and because of this he views himself as a soulless monster wich is why he behaves so unfriendly towards Bella who loves him but can only be with him by becoming like him, that's why he hates himself. The woman he loves has to become a monster just to be with him. This can explain his bipolar behavior towards Bella. When she becomes pregnant to his child, she has to endure unbelievabel pain and death.
Victor plans to study natural science, and physical science in all its forms.
