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Frankenstein Essay Research Paper Birth is a

Frankenstein Essay, Research Paper


Birth is a natural process of creating a new life.


Birth symbolizes life, giving future hope to people. In


Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character, Victor


Frankenstein, creates a being with his own hands; he has


created something magnificent and terrible at the same


time. Upon the moment of birth of this creature,


Frankenstein runs away in horror. In relation, the author


herself as she wrote this story, puts her life events


into the book. Mary Shelley s mother died soon after her


birth; and Mary, herself, had four stillborn children. To


Mary, you can t have life without death, and vice versa.


In the birth scene of Frankenstein, this creature means


failure of creation and death.


When Victor is putting his ideas together to create


this creature; he describes this creature as beautiful


and proportioned. His limbs were in proportion, and I


had selected his features as beautiful. (Volume 1, page


935) Like an expecting mother, Victor thought that the


process of creating this creature was going to turn out


marvelous. But upon looking at the creature moving,


Victor thought I had desired it with an ardour that far


exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the


beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and


disgust filled my heart. (Volume 1, page 935) It was


like as if Victor failed to create something beautiful as


life.


The creature does not represent life; it represents


death, destruction and hopelessness in Victor s eyes.


Through an unnatural process, Victor uses science to give


life to this being that he put together through limbs of


what it used to be living beings. This is an important


part because the creature not only brought death upon


Victor, but also to William, Clerval, Justine, and


Elizabeth. It is impossible to get life from dead things.


From a creation that supposed to be marvelous turns


disastrous. What would one get from trying to create life


from using the source of death is the result of more


death.


Victor knew that by creating the Creature, he has


brought death upon himself. Cursed! (although I curse


myself) be the hands that formed you! (Volume 2, p961)


Victor curses himself because he only has himself to


blame for this creation. In the book, the creature


follows Victor wherever he goes; as if, it s a daily


reminder that he is getting closer to death day by day.


On a similar term, death is an unavoidable event in life.


The creature also sets as a reminder of death that he brought on to everyone that he loves.


When the creature request Victor to create another


being alike, Victor fears that it will eventually being


destructi

on to the human race. And a race of devils


would be propagated upon the earth, who might make the


very existence of the species of man a condition


precarious and full of terror. (Volume 3, Page 1001) As


this quote indicates the fact that Victor is afraid if he


creates another female companion for this creature, he


will bring destruction and death not only to himself but


also to the human race itself. Since more death result in


creation from death, this means that it will bring death


to others on this world. If one creature represented


death to a few, it will bring destruction to the world if


another creature is created.


Death is an event that intertwined with death in


Mary Shelley s life. Mary Wollstonecraft had many


stillborn births; and, Mary Shelley was the only child to


survive. Unfortunately, Mary Wollstonecraft died soon


after giving birth to Mary Shelley. Similarly, Mary


Shelley herself had one child survive to adulthood. In


Frankenstein, Victor runs away after he sees the creature


comes to life. What follows is a dream about Elizabeth


and Caroline, Victor s mother. I thought I saw


Elizabeth, I the bloom of health, walking in the streets


of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her;


but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they


became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared


to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my


dead mother in my arms (volume 1, page 935) The


significance of this dream interprets what will become of


Elizabeth. As if it foretells Elizabeth s destiny.


Although Elizabeth is Victor s companion, in a way, she


replaces in place of Victor s mother. In a very same way,


Elizabeth will also risk her own life to take care of


Victor. Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to


your younger cousins. (Volume 1, page 927) Caroline has


placed her duty upon Elizabeth as the lady of the


household. Death is an event that happens often in


Victor s life. But because this creature represents


death, it was like seeing his mother. This is the reason


why Victor runs away in horror after the birth; it is


because he sees Elizabeth s death in the creature.


From what is supposed to be a wonderful creation of


life, it turned disastrous. The creature haunts Victor


through out the story, remind Victor that death is near


by. Victor creates this being from the dead, and resulted


in death upon him and others. The creation of this


monster presented the fact that life and death are always


related in some ways. The biography of Mary Shelley is


relevant to Frankenstein because it interpret birth into


different meanings. To both Victor and Shelley, death


resulted from creation.

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