mary shelley's Frankenstein

“How far do you agree that Mary Shelley has created a monster?”



Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was published finally in 1831,There are many aspects to the novel that can be considered to be monstrous or the work of a monster. The most commonly referred to monster of the novel is Victors creation. Physically, the creature consisted of a tangled mass of dead body parts stitched together to become what nature would never have produced, hence the use of the word “monster”, meaning “unnatural”. This quality is labelled by horror philosopher Noel Carroll, as "ontological impropriety."-The perpetual taboo of blending categories between living and dead, animate and inanimate sets an absolute boundary between the dead and the living- and its considered monstrous. However,other aspects such as the novel as a whole when thinking about the traditional values of the time, and Victor Frankenstein’s part in usurping the power of god need to be analysed for their ’monstrous’ va...