How Mary Shelley Presents the Monster in Frankenstein Essay -- Mary Sh

How Mary Shelley Presents the Monster in FrankensteinThroughout my essay, I am going to explain and show the ways andtechniques that Mary Shelley uses to present the monster through thenovel. I will also describe how wee feel virtually the monster at variousstages in the novel, and how our views and understanding of him mayhave changed. I will begin with a brief introduction to Mary Shelleyherself, and how she was brought up, as I think this has had a biginfluence on her writing in Frankenstein.Mary Shelley was brought up by her yield since the age of around equitableten days old. Her mother died just shortly after giving birth to Mary.I believe Mary Shelley blamed herself for her mothers death, andwriting Frankenstein was her way of let out and incorporatingher misery and hate through the characters in the book. I think thatshe is referring to herself as the monster because he only had afather, and although I think Marys father did love her, she was stillmissing something and I t hink she felt like she wanted to be loved.The novel is set in Geneva, Switzerland which is a very(prenominal) dim andisolated country. This gives the feel of loneliness and makes thenovel slightly more frightening knowing it is set in a lonely,mountainous area in the middle(a) of nowhere. Mary Shelley tells us thestory of how Victor Frankenstein became interested in naturalphilosophy, electricity, chemistry and mathematics. Frankenstein leftfor Germany, to attend university. There, his interest in naturalphilosophy speedily became an obsession. He was particularly fascinatedwith the human body and the concept of life. After four years offanatic studying, not keeping in contact with his family, he was ableto ... ...ns friend and dislikes themonster for murdering Frankensteins wife and brother, he also pityshim because he has not been brought up to learn right or wrong, so hethinks that its not his fault. The use of three points of view is veryeffective because it really helps yo u to decide your own point of viewfor yourself.To conclude my essay, I think that Mary Shelley has been very cleverin her use of emotive language especially. I think she really shows ushow the monster is persuasion at all time during the novel, and thisshows us his true character. I think our views change of himthroughout the novel, but we will always have the slight sense offeeling sorry for him more than anything, sluice though he does murder.It was never his fault that he was hated and rejected and I thinkthats why we have such a strong feeling of understanding towards him.