The text I
am going to write about is a Gothic Novel. It is always fun for me to read text
with gothic elements. It increases our curiosity to know more and more about
it. Let’s see something about this in brief.
Frankenstein;
or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley. It
is a story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a weird but
wise creature in an unusual scientific experiment.
Shelley
started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel
was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Her name first
appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
This text is
written when electricity was new in town. So we can see the contemporary
effects of that time in this novel.
It also
highlights the over excessiveness of anything. We can see the good verses bad
effects of Science.
Victor
creates a creature and then he himself rejects that creature. Being rejected by
his own master, he seeks revenge and destroys Victor’s family.
A question
might arise here that Is victor innocent????
Who is the
monster Victor or the creature????
Victor is
the one who created him and then left him alone.
We can
compare this text with Dr.Faustus. Dr.Faustus also in his pride does something
unusual which leads him to his downfall.
To feel the
gothic elements do read this book. The
Movie version of this film is also available.
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