Frankenstein Questionary

1) In Frankenstein you can find many different elements of a horror story. What strategies and devices does Mary Shelley use to make the story scary? Use examples from the story.

Well the devices that Mary Shelley use is the diction and imagery, she also use literary figures to demonstrate what I am saying I will use some examples:

-diction: I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings. (Here we think that the is

-imagery: While I watched the tempest so beautiful get terrific.

-personification: Dear mountains! My own beautiful lake! 

2) How does Mary Shelley go beyond the usual horror stories? Think of other horror stories and their plot.

In the history that Mary Shelley creates is not like a common horror history because in the usual horror history the antagonist is bad you can’t change that but in the Frankenstein history the situation make you thing about the monster and how he evolve in the book. Also in the usual horror histories the monster tries to make suffer the person that he is trying to attack but in Frankenstein the monster is not in knowledge of what he is doing.

3) Who is the actual monster in Frankenstein? Why?

For me the monster in the story is victor and also the monster because victor don not take care of the monster because he scares of what he creates and he leave him alone with no knowledge about the world, but the monster also killed members of victor family and that make him bad.

4) What were the motivations for Victor to create the creature? Use examples from the story.

The motivation that victor Frankenstein has been the electricity because one day was a big storm and a tree near his house fell down. He was studying philosophy in the university but he suddenly change to anatomy because he was interested of creating life with the power of the electricity.

5) What responsibilities did Victor, as the creator, have towards his creature?

The responsibilities that victor have towards the creature is that he have to take care of him, feed , give him home, and teaching him all about what he have to know to leave in peace with the humans.

6) Why did Victor abandon the creature?

Victor abandoned the creature because when he a create it he scares because is not what he expect that is going to be.

7) Why do you think Shelley had Robert Walton tell Victor’s stor? Was this technique employed by Shelley as an effective way to tell the story?

Mary Shelley use Robert to tell the story because in my opinion she is trying to add more like a first person way to see what is happening in the book and adding personal feelings, definitely is a good way to tell the story.

8) To what extent is Victor’s story believable to Robert Walton?

9) Compare and contrast Robert’s and Victor’s goals and interests.

10) In the novel, Victor warns Robert that acquiring knowledge can lead to misery and destruction. What serious consequences might the acquisition of knowledge have?

Well everything have the good and the bad side if you acquire knowledge it depends on how you use it but just put in the case that you are attempt to create a new medicine that will help the people that have an X problem but let’s imagine that in the attempt only one thing go wrong you could create a new virus or other sick.

11) One of the novel’s conflicts is that the characters were unable to recognize the humanity of the creature. What qualities make us human?

What make us humans is that we have the ability of reasoning if someone put a human in a X situation you can reflect  and take care of what is happening, also that we have feelings.

12) What qualities make the creature human?

What make the creature human is that he have feelings the ones that are show in the book are that he says that he hates the humans and also that he fell alone.

13) Some critics use the story of Frankenstein as an argument against scientific technology that creates life forms; others argue that it is not technology itself but the use to which it is put that presents and ethical issue. What is your position?

The position that I will defend in this situation is the number two because I think that victor use the medicine in a wrong way he was trying to be like a god and that is not possible at least you are sure that the results are going to be what you expect, that type of medicine could be also with a big benefit if we studied well.

       14) Is the novel popular nowadays? Why?

      The novel is still popular nowadays because in the novel the author combine many aspects as the gothic literature, the science fiction(this is the first novel that is of science fiction genre), also that the novel has the creating life theme that is a theme of actuality.

15) How might you apply the story to today’s society?

Well we can apply the part that victor is a scientist and he is trying to create life we can apply that in the actuality that the biologist create new cells and change it with the old ones so they turn  normal again.