DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHName: Baldaniya Vanita Velabhai

Semester: 2

Class: M.A.Part 1

Paper: 4 (Romantic literature)

Roll No: 29

Topic: Themes of Frankenstein

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ABOUT OF MARY SHELLEY

1797 to 1851.She is born in Somers

Town, London.She was an English Novelist, short-story

writer, Dramatist, Essayist, biographer

and travel writer. Frankenstein is Gothic

Novel.

Birth & Creatio

n

Alienation

The Family &

the Domestic Affection.

Three most important themes,

BIRTH AND CREATION

Mary Shelley does this trough the main character, Victor (Frankenstein), who succeeds in creating a “human” life form. In doing this, Frankenstein has taken over the role of women and God.

Shelly discusses how Frankenstein has used his laboratory as a kind of ‘womb’ as he has worked on his creation. He also refers to his task as his labour, suggesting that he has literary given birth to his creation.

ALIENATION Victor is one character who is alienated from other. This is due to his desire for knowledge, and the vast amount of time in which he spends in completing his scientific experiment. Victor choses to be alienated, despite that fact that he insists many times that the only reason he is isolated from other is because of the Monster.

Alienation is also shown through the creature which Victor creates. The suffering of the creature in the novel are also the result of being alienated, but unlike Victor, he does not bring this upon himself. Instead, others isolated the Monster.

THE FAM ILY AND DO MES TIC AFFECTIO NS

The Family and Domestic Affections is also demonstrated in the novel Frankenstein. In the novel, the family unit is something which is frequently idealized. The home seems to be a paradise where the woman is the presiding angel. In the case of the Frankenstein home, Elizabeth is first adopted, as she is described as being somewhat angelic .

Conclusion: Mary Shelley discusses the themes of birth and creation, alienation and the family and the domestic affections. In her novel Frankenstein. This themes represent incidents which occurred in her own life, in those around her, or debateable issues of the time.

The themes discussed show Shelley’s thoughts and feelings on these issues, and present the reader with interesting points to think about and reflect upon their own lives.

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