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In Frankenstein, the impossibilities of fantasy are overshadowed by the power and reality of science. By its publication in 1818, electric batteries, steamboats, and locomotives were all recent developments. Dalton had just published his atomic theory, and the first asteroids had been discovered. Science was growing to replace fantasy with evidenced rational, but it was […] Continue reading →

Having never read the original text of Frankenstein nor seen a film adaptation (a truly humiliating confession considering Wikipedia informs me there have been no less than six to date), I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect of the first volume of the celebrated novel. Popular culture has for decades parodied the mad-scientist-and-his-monster relationship, with […] Continue reading →

The first thing that struck me in particular upon picking up Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” for the first time since graduating High-School English was that the language was a great deal less confusing than I remembered it to be. The second was that I still didn’t like it much, but for very new reasons. I find […] Continue reading →

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley begins in a relatively unique manner by starting with letters from Robert Walton to his sister instead of jumping straight into Chapter 1 of the main story.  This interesting literary device immediately sets the principal theme of family and friendship, using the correspondence format to highlight the importance of these relationships.  […] Continue reading →

Sort of inspired by Ashley’s post before reading the entirety of volume 1, I found a lot of parallels between Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein.  Walton, an explorer and adventurer, is faced with the dilemma of continuing his travels and risking his own life, as well as his crew’s, or realizing his dream and continuing …

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Volume one of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was not quite the novel I expected it to be. In the first volume, Shelley provided deep insights into the character of Victor Frankenstein’s early life,  going back to his early childhood all the way through his experiences studying science at Ingolstadt. Shelley also introduces us to family members […] Continue reading →

            Through my reading of the first volume of Shelley’s Frankenstein, I found Victor’s readiness to correlate his emotions with images and actions of nature to be deceiving as they come from a man determined to undermine the importance of natural selection in the wild. Natural selection allows only the strongest animals in the wild […] Continue reading →

 This is the second time I have read this novel and what jarred me reading it the second time around are the beginning letters that Walton is writing to his sister. In a lot of ways, Walton’s wants and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I first read Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein, when I was in high school. At the time, I was far more concerned with the television show Gossip Girl and the hot guy I was crushing on then I was with engrossing myself in Mary Shelley’s timeless work. However, as I opened Frankenstein a second time … Read more Continue reading →

Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by […] Continue reading →