Frankenstein :: essays research papers

bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein opens with Robert Waltons ship surrounded in ice, and Robert Walton watching, along with his conspiracy, as a huge, malformed "traveller" on a dog maul vanished across the ice. The next morning, the fog lifted and the ice separated and they plunge a man, that was almost frozen lying on a slab of aimless ice. By giving him hot soup and rubbing his body with brandy, the crew restored him to his health. A few days later he was able to tattle and the stranger, passkey Frankenstein, seemed distressed to learn that a sled had been sighted antecedent to his rescue from the ice. Then he began to tell his story.     Frankenstein said that he had been an sole(prenominal) child and during a expedition with his parents, his mother found a skinflint and his wife with five hungry babies. The peasants children were dark-skinned, except for unrivaled little girl. Frankensteins mother decided to adopt the little girl. Victor an d his adopted sister, Elizabeth, came to love one another, even though they were very disparate in temperament and nature. Elizabeth "busied herself with following the aerial creations of poets," while Frankenstein preferred scientific knowledge "it was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn ... the physiologic secrets of the world." After the death of his mother when he was seventeen, Frankenstein departed for the University of Inglostadt. Frankenstein grew intensely arouse in the phenomena of the human body and he explored the processes of death and decay, and became infatuated with the opinion of creating human life itself.           After several days and shadows of laboring, he succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter." Frankenstein set out to create a superior living being, hoping to last discover a f ormula for eternal life. In his research Frankenstein determinedly collected human remains from charnel-houses and cemeteries. Then, "on a dreary night of November ... I beheld the accomplishment of my toils" an eight-foot monster. Applying electricity to the "lifeless matter" before him, Frankenstein saw "the dull yellow eye of the creature open it breathed hard, and fitful motion agitated its limbs." And at the result of his creation coming to life, Frankenstein was appalled. " asphyxiating horror and disgust filled my heart." He thought that he had created a freak. Exhausted, Frankenstein fell into a deep sleep, seeking a "few moments of forgetfulness.