Frenkenstein
The modern Prometheus
_Mary Shelley
- Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
1) why victor was not able to accept his dream experiment and it's results?
Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
When Victor goes to the university in Ingolstadt, Germany, however, he discovers what it means to be a true scientist in the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century. He learns how to use systematic, objective, and empirical observation in the study of the natural world through the scientific method.
He becomes intensely interested in harnessing the power of life and death to create a new Adam, made in his own image, instead of God's.
Little he didn't know is that the monster has no aim to live. As an infant baby this world is very new for him he's behaving as human being is treating him.
We live in a judgemental society.
Eg.
We do judge strangers often and same as that people do judge us to.
concept of
The virtuvian man
The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius is a drawing made by the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in about 1490.It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the Roman architect Vitruvius. The drawing, which is in ink on paper, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square.
2) what made creature a monster?
What is human?
I Believe a human being is someone that cares and helps others and tries to be the best person they can be, So who is more human The Monster or Victor Frankenstein?
The Creature is more human.
In the real world kids are influenced by what happens in their childhood and shaped by what they experience. The Creatures surroundings made him what he became. He had rocks thrown at him just for looking different, shot for saving a girl from drowning and chased away from a village. Anyone that is treated like they are evil and unwanted for no reason you cannot blame for becoming evil. The moment the Creature was given life he was already being treated like a Monster or mistake,
”I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom i had created.”
His own creator called him a Monster. Frankenstein was the Creatures father and he ran away from him, left him all alone hoping he would just go away so he didn 't have to deal with what he just did created.
So, rejection from his own creator made him a monster.
3) why society has rejected victor's idea of experiment and then the result of his experiment?
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, society continually regards Victor's creation as a monster, both physically and psychologically. Though the being has the physical characteristics of a monster, it is only after he is repeatedly rejected by society that he adopts the personality and behavior of a monster. Thus, society plays a large role in shaping the monster's personality and behavior. Because society expects him to act like a monster, he inevitably becomes one. The being is clearly a victim of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Victor Frankenstein’s sin was to play god, to attempt to create life out of non-life.
“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.”
The scientist in this story tried to apotheosize himself by creating, like Prometheus did, his own living creature who would laud him as divine. But, says author Shelley, this action violated what was sacred and the sacred, like Zeus, retaliated by letting loose a monster on the world.
4) can appearance overpower reality?
Of course society would mind they will judge and critise you for your looks the way you behaving.
Here in the novel , the monster has a hideous look which made society hate him.
5) who decides what beauty is? Is it for real or superficial?
The Ancient Greeks believed the gods blessed good people with beauty.
Comparably, the Romantics shared a similar notion that inner goodness would externalize into physical beauty. Mary Shelley’s Romantic novel Frankenstein explores the theme of whether outer beauty correlates with inner morality via the Creature, a sentient artificial life who is highly intelligent but grotesque. The Creature’s monstrous appearance causes others to ostracize him and transforms him from an innocent creature to a morally ambiguous antagonist, contributing to the greater theme of outer beauty and inner good.
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