Indledning
Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to scare and frighten the audience or reader. There are three approaches to horror which is: a mirror of the human psyche, a mirror of society, and a mirror of human nature .
The themes used often in this genre are religion, class, the concepts of family and gender, and the possibilities and dangers of science.
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, she lets us experience the dangers of science. The main focus in this analytic essay will be on the characters.
I will also clarify the relationship between society and horror in general and analyze the relationship between the values of Victorian society (1837-1901) and the novel.
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Uddrag
Victor suffers a lot from illness and depression, due to all the lives he has ruined because of his creation. “… I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe” , this sentence is showing that he is in so much pain and is close to give up on life.
When Victor feels guilt and wants to heal from his grief, he finds comfort in nature. All the damage the monster has done, has made Victor determined to kill the monster -
“How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.” .
Victor is strongly driven by his desires and feelings when it comes to his actions, like when he decided not to make the female monster because he simply couldn’t live with himself if he did.
“The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness..” , this is the moment he destroys the second creature because he is afraid, that it would turn into a monster like his first creation.
Victor dies at the end of the story and he never got to kill the monster. Mary Shelley described Frankenstein as the modern Prometheus, because the Greek god is the creator of mankind, and he is associated with light and fire, referring to the electricity.
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