Frankenstein Essays

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein presents the downfall of Victor Frankenstein, the tragic hero, as a result of his fatal flaw. Victor Frankenstein’s complex character, fits the guidelines of an Aristotelian Tragic Hero, which states that the hero must occupy a high status, epitomising nobility however, is not perfect – he possesses …

The monster’s physical grostequeness, as well as murderous deeds – his strangling of William, Clerval, Elizabeth and framing of Justine – tempts the unthinking reader to believe that the monster is the embodiment of evil. However, on analysis, the reader realizes that this is not entirely true. Mary Shelley has …

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelly are two novels which explore the mind and the morality of human nature. One, an epic work of psychic exploration and great depth, the other a tragic story of the cruelness of mankind. In Crime and Punishment, the rehabilitation …

“I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation… and diffusing a perpetual splendour” (7, 8). It is interesting to see how this person describes the North Pole because in reality the North pole is a place full of ice where few …

The gender roles of males and females is the most blatantly expressed theme in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. It is as if Mary Shelley saw the theoretical horse that represents gender archetypes laying alive and well in the middle of a exquisite field of grass, and then …

As he went on, I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. So …