Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
(Questions with Answers)
Frankenstein
as a Science Fiction.
Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein can
be read from two main level; as a science
fiction and as human nature. The whole
novel moves around the invention of
a scientist and the result of it. Dangerous
aspect of experience in scientific field
is the subject matter of the novel.
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The monster, Victor's reaction
itself is a kind of scientific
achievement around which the
whole plot structure is designed.
The protagonist Victor Frankenstein
is a scientist and driven
by ambition of scientiric
curiosity. His quest for absolute
knowledge and power has ended
in his own destruction. So
the novel shows that thought-lessness
causes destruction to themselves.
Shelley shows the dangerous
aspects of modern scientific
world. How the scientific
investigation goes beyond
human control due to the excess
focus on it without proper
attention has well been presented
in the novel. Read
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Frankenstein
as a gothic Fiction.
The
word "Gothic" originally referred
to the Goths, Gothic novel carries a
typical story focussed on the sufferings
imposed on an innocent heroine by a
cruel and lustful villian and made large
quantities use of ghosts, mysterious
dissappearances and other sensetional
and supernatural occurances. Read
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Central
theme of Frankenstein.
The
novel carries several themes together
with its subject matter. Mary Shelley
relates the different aspects very informatively
while relating the main focus of the
novel. One of the most common central
theme of the novel is scientific interest
of contemporary people and its development
together with destructive results. Read
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The destructive consequences of single
minded obsessions are the heart of Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein"
Discuss.
No
doubt the destructive consequences of
single minded obsessions are the heart
of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Because the whole novel is about the
very state of the mind of Frankenstein
which is completly filled with the thoughts
of only one paritcular thing of single
mind which gives the destrcutive consequnces
at the last because of his single minded
obsessions. Read
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