Lack Of Love And Frankenstein

Part I of Essay
Love is an emotion that is essential when bringing a life into this world. It instills morality into the newborn and develops traits that come only from the goodness of the parents. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portraits a life lacking other’s concerns and filled ....

Part II of Essay
.... Shelley was none other but the mother of death itself, which influenced her novel. “Frankenstein is indeed a birth myth , but one in which the parent who brought death into the world, and all our woe, is not a woman but a man who pushed the masculine prerogative past the limits of nature , creating life not through the female body, but in a laboratory” (220, Kate Ellis). In the novel, Shelley turned her ideas around, creating Victor, who, desperate after the loss of his own mother, goes out to find the secret to life, and in a way, ....