ESSAY ON: Being Human/Shelley's Frankenstein

Number of Pages 4

This research paper: A 4 page essay that examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Frankenstein is very familiar. A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, robs graveyards for body parts, assembles them and reanimates them as a monster. While the emphasis in film adaptations of Mary Shelley's gripping nineteenth century gothic thriller has been on the horror that the monster elicits, both in his creator and the townspeople, the emphasis in Shelley's novel is on the nature of what it means to be human and the destructive nature of regarding those different from ourselves as less than human. In Shelley's novel, the "monster" is not intrinsically evil, rather he is a window on what it means to be human in a world that defines you as a "monster." No additional sources cited.


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