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Literary Analysis Essay By: Trent Johnson

Literary Analysis Paper Mary Shelly’s Gothic novel Frankenstein showed a different side of creation, which a monster was created by a misunderstood scientist. The monster was the product of corruption but lived his life like the way people lived back in the distant past, an eye for an eye. Frankenstein wanted to undo what he had created so no one would suffer. In the end, the monster may have caused the mad but brilliant doctor Frankenstein demise. The monster was the brain child of a doctor Frankenstein. He was obsessed with bringing a dead body back from the dead. He had hoped that his creation would let the world know that you can piece together a perfect man and make him an intelligent being. But when his creation came to life he realized that the brain of the creature was not what he wanted. He created a monster that had the need to even out the world in a since the eye for an eye concept. It tore Frankenstein apart and it had caused him great agony. “When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the site of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.” Page 56. There is an underline subject in the story, what happens if you do something against nature and gods will? What will be the consequences for acting like a god? When Frankenstein saw that the monster was an abomination of nature, he realized that the monster would ruin him for his crime of playing god. “For as long as science has existed to satisfy man's appetite for knowledge and exploration, there have been people with the belief that science is none other than man's attempt to play God,” www.bookrags.com. The monster would try and destroy the things that Frankenstein holds dear to him and he must be punished. The monster was brought to life and to try and equal out the balance of power, someone has to die so things can equal out, an eye for an eye. By the time that Frankenstein wanted his creation dead, the monster had already killed and was on the move to go into hiding from the world. The monster wanted someone to love him and to accept him. Pg. 98 “Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees. I gazed with a kind of wonder. It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path; and I again went out in search of berries,” Frankenstein monster. When he sees the light of the moon he hopes that one day he will be accepted by someone. He was created and he was left to rot by himself. He wanted the companionship of another person but knew everyone saw him as a beast and not as a person. When he was alone by a lake, he saw the moon shinning in the sky. He was born afraid like the rest of humanity is. When the moon shines upon his deformed body, he sees that the moon is not afraid of him but he so desperately wants to be accepted. When it rose from the trees he felt that all his fears wash away and finally felt at peace with himself. When he wakes up, to see the moon in the sky shining a peaceful light, he feels calm and at peace. He can see it rising from the trees. It shined upon him as a glimmer of hope that he would be loved and accepted. When he went to Frankenstein, and wanted him to create him a wife so he would not be alone in this cruel world. Frankenstein turned it down and the monster was furious. The monster thought to himself that if I cannot be in love and accepted by anyone then my father will not be accepted by any one either. Frankenstein decided to track down Frankenstein’s love, Elizabeth and his family. Frankenstein began to wonder what he had done and decided to go after the monster. The monster found himself hiding from everyone during the day and only traveling at night. He swore to make Frankenstein pay for every pain and suffering that he has caused him. When he found a child, he said,” this little creature was unprejudiced, and had lived too short a time to have embodied a horror of deformity,” Page 144. He hoped to educate the child into not liking anyone that was a regular human. Finally he hoped to have a friend. When the kid screams at the hideous site of the monster, the monster immediately tries to explain the situation but to no avail. When the kid tells the monster that his father is M. Frankenstein, the monster seems to snap and decided to end the child’s life. Now part of his eternal revenge towards Frankenstein was complete. When the monster gets to Frankenstein’s wife, he has no problem in ending her existence. The monster has by this time successfully laid to rest everyone who Frankenstein cared about the most. Frankenstein had everything he could have every wanted, but when he created something against gods will, the monster took revenge on Frankenstein on behalf of god. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation were alone, they had no one to love them and now Frankenstein will end his creation to seek revenge. Now the monster is on the run again and Frankenstein wants him dead. The monster had taken Frankenstein’s wife for not giving him a wife of his own. Frankenstein took the lives of children and men to make up for the parts of bodies that Frankenstein unearthed so it would equal out the balance of power in the world. Playing god is one thing that should never be done in this world. No one should be able to bring life to something that is already dead. The monster shows what would happen if something like him was unleashed upon the world to seek revenge on the person that created him. In the end, Frankenstein’s death was not actually caused by the monster but by what the monster did to his family and life. That is god’s revenge in human form. Taking the life of the man and his family that created him. No one should ever tamper with the power of god.

Bibliography •	Book Rags.com, web page, http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2006/4/28/12116/2721 •	Frankenstein book, Mary Shelly, copyright 2011, originally written in 1818