Frankenstein

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In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Shelley does an excellent job of keeping the readers informed on what is happening from both characters perspectives. Shelley creates a very strong grasping effect by presenting different characters viewpoints throughout the novel which keeps the reader hooked as well as adding to suspense being built in the novel. using the method of showing each character's perspective Shelley creates a very strong gateway for foreshadowing throughout the novel allowing the reader to digest little bits and pieces of future information to build questions within the reader that will soon be answered. Shelly's writing style produces questions in the readers mind while she is also posing questions about science and society and the positive and destructive sides of human nature.Shelley begins the novel with the story of Victor Frankenstein's childhood leading into his adult years. She adds in his obsession with science and learning about it. As she goes into his teenage years he begins to study at Ingolstadt and speaks with 2 professors, one of which teaches him that what he has learned is not been very true and gets him hooked on something else, creating life “every instant that you have wasted on those books is entirely and utterly lost.” (Shelley, Miller, and Bloom 31).   Victor was a character with many obsessive tendencies. Throughout the novel he had multiple obsessions such as creating life and then chasing his creation to the end of the earth to kill it. Victor is so obsessed that he takes it upon himself to create life on his own “-more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold the worlds deepest mysteries of creation.” (Shelley, Miller, and Bloom 33). Frankenstein making his own inanimate life proves to be a horrible idea due to the fact that the outcome of the monsters existence is his whole family dying and him spending a lifetime of...