Frankenstein

This semester, in my studies of English Language, Literature and History, within the subject of English Literature, I must read the novel "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley, who wrote the novel with just 20 years. The novel has been versioned too much and the it goes much beyond the image the cinema, among others, is given to us.

The creature is benevolent at the moment of inception. It is the refusal of other human beings to accept him, starting by his creator, Viktor, what drives into an spiral of crime and violence. At the moment when the creature opens his eyes, it is him the benevolent and Viktor is the one who refuses any contact with him. Such is his disdain that he does not give any name to his creation. It seems that Mary Shelley adopted the idea, quite spread at that time, that society corrupted human beings, who by nature are born benevolent, even in the case of somebody built from corpses.

Nature plays an important role in the novel, which is mainly set in the Alps and Scotland, two impressive landscapes. The fight between the creature and his creator ends in the way to the North Pole, which provides a perfect background, amidst the powers of the nature. In this sense, Frankenstein is a perfect example of a novel from the Romantic movement.

But there are many more features there: feminist argue that the unnatural birth of the creature results in pain and suffering in Viktor, for breaking the rules of nature; the complex narrative structure may imply that the author wants to distance herself from the content of the novel; uncontrolled advances in science, without due care to their consequences, may be openly criticised;...

As you see, much more than a big head with two nuts in his neck.