Mary Shelley essays

Mary Shelley essays The plot of Frankenstein was about a scientist who created a monster. When he saw how terrifying his creation was when he fell sick with a brain fever. For two years, he did not know about his were abouts or his creation. When his brother was murdered and the girl they were blaming was a close friend of the family, Victor the scientist was positive that it was not her. He blamed the creature he had created for killing his brother. Victor tried to save the girl but she was hung. Victor felt responsible for both deaths. He climbed the mountains looking for his creation and then he saw him. He began to talk to the monster and the monster started to tell him how he had survived for so many years. The monster told Victor how lonely he was and asked him if he could create another monster for him so that he wouldn't be lonely. Victor agreed after the monster told him that if he would create a companion for him, he would leave the civilized world and never be heard of again. As Vict or started creating another monster, he realized that maybe creating another one wasn't such a good idea. He visualized both of the monsters together causing destruction. So he destroyed his work and Frankenstein cursed him for doing so. On Victor's wedding night he hears a scream and he runs to his suite. He found his wife strangled. Victor pledges that he will follow the monster to the end of the earth until he can finally destroy him. The pursuit leads him to the arctic region. Robert Walton's expedition ship finds Victor Frankenstein almost dead. They take him aboard and Victor tells them his story only to die later on. Frankenstein appears in the scientist's room where he announces to Walton that he plans to make a huge funeral bier and burn himself in the fire. He jumped on an ice raft and was carried away by the waves. He was lost forever in the distance. The Scientific issues brought up in my book were how Dr. Victor Frankenstein created life in...