Frankenstein
In this essay I will discuss how chapter five is significant to the rest of the novel and also what it tells us about nineteenth century life. I will do this by discussing what we learn about Frankenstein’s character in this chapter and also how language is used to create tension and suspense.
The novel is about a character called Victor Frankenstein who goes to university to study science, on how to create life. However he becomes addicted and determined to bring someone back from the dead. When he succeeds in creating life he realises his monstrous creature was a big mistake, so he abandons his monster. However the monster follows Frankenstein and kills several members of his family and friends in the journey.
Mary Shelley wrote the novel in 1931 while she was only twenty-five. It was written because Mary went on holiday with her boyfriend/ husband and whilst they were on holiday one night the weather wasn’t very pleasant. Mary her husband mother father and friends gathered together one night to tell ghost stories. Mary Shelley won their competition of having the best ghost story, which was based on Frankenstein. Her family and friends persuaded her to publish her story, but in the nineteenth century women were thought not to be intelligent.
As this story was written hundreds of years ago it frightened many people, because stories were written but not many were as frightening as Frankenstein. In the nineteenth century scientist were discovering the possibility of bringing the dead back to life. They were learning how blood circulates and how the nervous system works. This also made the story more horrific because the story had real life in it and it was going on at the time.
The novel is also relevant today as some parents have designer babies. A designer baby is still in its mother’s womb when scientists will be able to change whether the baby will be born with particular diseases.
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