The Human Need for Love in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Essay -- Franke

The Human Need for Love Exposed in Frankenstein Written in 1817 by bloody shame Shelley, Frankenstein is a novel roughly the modern Prometheus, the papistical Titian who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. The story takes place in several European countries during the late 1700s. It is the recollection of higher-up Frankenstein to a ship captain about his life. superordinate is a student of science and medicine who discovers a substance to reanimate dead flesh. In a desire to create the entire race he constructs a man more powerful than some(prenominal) normal human, exclusively the creation is so deformed and hideous that Victor shuns it. The creation then spends a year wandering searching for companionship, merely everywhere he goes he is shunned and feared. Hating life the creature turns its misery on its creator, chargeing off Victors family. Frankenstein chases the freak to the North Pole, in an attempt to kill it. Weakened by the cold and long chase, a dyi ng Victor is taken aboard a ship, where he relates his tale to the captain and dies currently after. The next night the monster visits the ship and looks upon Victors body, ashamed by solely of the killing he has done the monster flees into the Arctic Ocean, never to be seen again. Frankenstein appears to be a novel about the evil ways of man, but it is truly about the human soul and how it needs friendship and whap to survive. This theme is apparent from the opening letters from the ship captain to his babe in which the captain writes, I have but one privation which I have never merely been able to satisfy ... I have no friend (Shelley 7). The captain is about to embark on his lifes dream of sailing to the North Pole he has a good crew and a fine ship but still wants a friend to share the excitement with. ... ...nd misery, because he killed all that he love. It is at this moment that he realizes that he doesnt hate Frankenstein but actually loved him like a father, but was so consumed by self detestation and hate that he killed all he loved. With this passing thought the monster leaps from the ship into the ice filled sea, and is never seen again. At first it is seen as a story about man and the evils he can do, yet Frankenstein is actually about the friendship of the soul. Without this basic need the body every withers away and dies or turns to another source, like murder or drink, to fill the hole. Both fatalities can be seen in the story, with Victors friendship and the monsters anger. incomplete one fills the gap in their soul, but eventually consumes them until they die. Work Cited Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein. Great Britain J.M Dent & Sons LTD. 1959.