Shellys Frankenstein

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Shelly's Frankenstein

In the world we live in, it is nothing new to hear of young men fathering
children and then disappearing, leaving the child to be raised without a father.
A term for these filial flunkies has even become a part of our vernacular; the
“deadbeat dad.” Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel concerning the
creation of life by a man, and his refusal to take responsibility for the life
he has created. Victor Frankenstein, in his abandonment of his own creation at
its “birth” and in his rejection of that creation when it seeks him out, is
that parent who is not there for his child. Shelley’s Frankenstein, in those
passages of the creation of the monster and the monster’s confrontation of
Frankenstein, contain ample proof that Victor Frankenstein was indeed a
“deadbeat dad.” Shelley shows that Frankenstein rejects his creation, is
disgusted by it and doesn’t offer the parental guidance, love and compassion
the creature so badly needs. Frankenstein’s abandonment of a being of his own
creation directly leads to his personal downfall. When the reader reaches the
creation of the monster in the novel, it is known that Frankenstein has not
previously fathered a child. Frankenstein is actively engaged in this task of
creating a living being out of inanimate flesh, he wants to bring life forth, it
doesn’t happen as an accidental occurrence. This is important to note in that
Shelley sets up Frankenstein as one who willingly brings life into the world.
Chapter Five begins with Frankenstein’s account of the night he created the
monster, or as he says: “ It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld
the accomplishment of my toils” (p.42). Right off, Shelley gives us two ideas
about Frankenstein as a father figure. First of all, we know that Frankenstein
looks back on that night he brought life into the world, and he remembers it as
“dreary.” This immediately sets the scene as an unpleasant one, a tone that
will last throughout this passage. Secondly, we know that Frankenstein has been
indeed working for this end in that he calls it the “accomplishment of his
toils.” Frankenstein then recalls how he felt about what he had accomplished:
“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?”(p.42). It would be an understatement to say he is disappointed.
Frankenstein calls his creation of a new life a “catastrophe.” He describes
the being he has willingly, eve...

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