Chapter 5 of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Essays -- Mary Shelley Victor

Chapter 5 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Within this essay I intend to discuss how Frankenstein and his creature change and how subconsciously they love each other. Chapter 5 will be used to show different themes as well as seeing how Frankenstein acts around his creation. Also the way Frankenstein has played God will be seen in this chapter. I will start this essay by looking at chapter 5. Shelley shows, in chapter 5, Frankenstein and the creature’s reaction to the ‘creation’. Shelley conveys Frankenstein’s horror at the creature he has brought to life and his reaction to it. ‘How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?’ This quote shows how Frankenstein is amazed that although he worked so hard to create a being, it has ended in tears. Frankenstein therefore has reacted with horror at his creation. Rather that creating a superior healthier human, he ended up creating a monster. In chapter 5 we learn next to nothing about the creature. It is living however it is like a newborn child and therefore doesn’t do much. In paragraph 3 in Chapter 5 we see how the creature tries to smile at Frankenstein just like an animal, the creature looks upon Frankenstein as its parent. ‘His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks’. This quote from paragraph 3 shows that already the creature is trying to communicate to his ‘father’. Despite the fact that all we learn about the creature in chapter 5 is that he is hideous and seems harmless however, later in the book we read how the creature evolves into a character of his own. The creature later in the book comes acro... ...haic using short sentences throughout the novel to cause impact. ‘Beautiful!’ and ‘Great God!’ are both examples to show this impact. I conclude by talking about what Shelley was trying to convey by writing this novel. I feel as if the novel is very personal and direct to Shelley’s life. She used her own previous life experiences and used them to write Frankenstein. I think Shelley was critical of Victor’s creation. She wrote about the creature in such a horrible way and really made the reader feel sorry for the creature even if he was an 8foof, ugly, repulsive, scary monster. Shelley also made Victor a very complex yet overly focused character. Mary Shelley made Frankenstein a best selling book for many years to come after the first copy. This book would continue to sell until it became what it is today, one of the best Gothic Horrors ever written.