Essay

Glenda Matute

ENG 242-51

The full title of Mary Shelley’s novel is Frankenstein, a book published on January 1, 1818. Prometheus, who was the son of Lapetus, was a wise titan who love human kind more than the other gods. He was considered a traitor because he tricked Zeus into allowing mankind to keep the better parts of the animals that were sacrificed. Zeus punished Prometheus for this and left him chained on a rock for eternity, but he was later rescued by Hercules without giving in to Zeus.

In the year 1816, Mary Shelley and her stepsister Claire Clairmont spent some time together in Geneva, where they shared stories and talked about Galvanism and reading ghost stories. This provided Mary Shelley with great ideas to write her sketches of what is now the novel known as Frankenstein.

Victor Frankenstein was a very smart young man, who was very precocious as a child. His curiosity got him involved with his studies, and considered a plan to bring back to live a dead body. He then, combining: chemistry, alchemy, and electricity to achieve his plan and make it a reality, brought a creature to life. The monster is pretty much representing Victor’s Frankenstein personality, ego, and conscience

Most of the stories a writer presents in their writings, is very likely linked to represent part of their own experiences and part of their life as well. I see sublime nature and dangerous knowledge when Mary Shelley presented this story in a contemporary science where Frankenstein represented the consequences of experimenting without a female to create an unknown result. Elizabeth also represents a character much like Mary Shelley herself, by aiding the poor, respecting all classes of common people. Justine the housekeeper of the Frankenstein family represented common people who deserves equal treatment and fear accommodations.

Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797 in London, England. She died of brain cancer on February, 1, 1851 in London, England. She suffered...