Frankenstein English Lit Gcse
...bodies. ‘Frankenstein’ is not the monster that everyone thinks it is. It is just the creature which was created by Victor Frankenstein. At the time he thinks that the creation is beautiful and clever, but as the creatures eyes open he realizes what he has created. All of this reflects on what was happening in real life because at that time scientists were just discovering, and obsessed, with electricity and how it could potentially bring people back to life. Mary Shelley was writing the novel while this was going on. Mary Shelley shows that Victor enjoys nature and is fascinated by its power. He witnesses a powerful thunderstorm and becomes interested in what electricity was. He realizes that electricity can be harnessed as power because it has the power to create or return life to dead bodies. Mary Shelley wrote this book as a warning to scientists, trying to show the consequences of playing with electricity and trying to play God. Scientists at that time were trying to conduct experiments on people to try to revive them after they had passed away. Victor became fascinated with creation whilst he was attending university; his classes involved dissecting dead bodies and studying composition. It was at this stage in Victor’s life that he became obsessed and stayed up well into the night working with dead bodies. This is how Victor started, gradually, creating a man. While he is doing this he slowly isolates himself from society, even from his father and family. He only thinks of achieving his ambition and nothing else.
This chapter is a crucial moment in the novel because it is the chapter in which the creature is created. From the very start of the chapter Mary Shelley indicates that Victor isn’t delighted with achieving his ambition. She uses different types of language including negative weather imagery, “It was on a dreary night”, “the rain pattered...
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