Sympathy in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Essay -- Mary Shelley Frankens

Sympathy in Mary Shelleys FrankensteinIn her novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley employs many innovativeliterary techniques to brace feelings of humanity for the monster. Sympathy is created by the author both by reservation the readers pity themonsters loathsome existence and by hauling(p) them to understand hisviolent and cruel actions. We pity the creature because of the way heis treated by mankind and we can identify with his feelings andreactions and understand wherefore he be pee-pees as he does. Shelley usesdifferent narrators throughout the novel and the reader sympathiseswith the views of these people to differing degrees. The languageused when describing the physical appearance of the monster and hisfeelings is very strong and evocative. The settings and motifs withwhich the monster is associated ar very dramatic and add to oursympathy for his lonely existence. The monsters use of rhetoric iseffective and his wrangle is eloquent, this is a strong technique bywhich t he reader is drawn in. Commentators have often compared themonster to Adam, or to a newborn baby, this challenges the readersview of him. Another technique employed by the author is to lead thereader to draw parallels between the characters of Victor Frankensteinand his creation.The novel is told from the viewpoint of divers(a) narrators, a techniqueexplored by Emily Bront in Wuthering Heights, which was popular withwriters in the 19th century. In Frankenstein, like in WutheringHeights, the first narrator is an outsider - Robert Walton - further asthe novel progresses the narrative moves in closer - to Victor, thento the monster. separately narrator contributes their own feelings anddescriptions of both Victor and the mo... ...r the period that Mary Shelley was pen in challenging the social conventions of the epoch. Parallels are drawn between the perplexity of the monster and the grieffelt by Victor Frankenstein. These strong emotions are portrayedagainst some of the harshe st, most desolate scenery in the world. The product line between these settings and the warm and pleasant scenes whenVictor is with his friends and family only serve to underline themonsters loneliness and isolation. Images of light and dark, heavenand hell, warmth and cold, chivy and ice, high and low, joy and despaircan be traced throughout the novel. all(a) of these bring to mindMiltons Paradise Lost. The novel shows demonstrate of Mary Shelleysinterest in scientific ideas of the time, a time when the conversationof intelligent, well-educated people often turned to recent scientificdevelopments.