- Paper: - 5 The Romantic Literature
- Name :- Hitixa Goswami
- Class :- M. A. Sem 2
- Roll No :- 8
- Beach :- 2019-21
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- Subject :- The Romantic Literature
- Assignment Topic :- Frankenstein as a gothic novel
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- Submitted to :- S.B.GARDI Department of English Bhavnagar University
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Frankenstein as a gothic novel
Introduction :-
As we all know that Frankenstein is novel written by English author marry Shelley. Frankenstein is a story with many ideas. The main being scientists should not play god and judging by appearances. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteenth, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.
About the author
Frankenstein is written by Mary Shelley. She was born on August 30,1797. Her mother died immediately after giving birth to her.
Mary married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814. In the 1816, the Shelley visited lord Byron on Lake Geneva. It was here that marry got the idea for writing her novel, Frankenstein. This book made her famous. Mary, however, always remained in need of money. She wrote novels, articles, poems and short stories. In 1826, The last man was published.
About the novel
The novel is about a young swish student victor Frankenstein, who discovers the secret of how to create life, Frankenstein carefully assembled body parts of human corpses in the hope of creating something beautiful. Frankenstein is a novel about victor Frankenstein, who is scientist creates the monster as a scientific experiment, obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but, upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creatures hideousness.
Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be come of the earliest example of science fiction.
Opening the novel one person Robert Walton. One day he would make a voyage to the nothpole. Robert’s ship was surrounded by ice and thick fog. After a few hours, the fog cleared and they saw large sheets of ice floating away. They saw a sledge drawn by dogs going northward. The sedge was being driven by a giant of a man.
As well as Robert say to Margaret about latter Robert told to Margaret story about victor Frankenstein Walton write about victor. He wrote a letter of Margaret victor was born in Geneva in a family of famous counsellor who held important position In the government. His father was a man of high public rank one of his closest friends was a rich Marchant who fell and hard days and lost his business Elizabethan is Adopted girl. Adopted by Victor’s family. She is Victor’s companion henry is Victor’s close friend and William is brother mother and father full family.
Victor’s family gave to victor in university for higher education. Victor’s passion is natural philosophy. Victor Frankenstein continually wants to transcend boundaries and limitation. This is Romantic drive towards transcendence or “enlightenment “ which due to the gothic nature of Frankenstein is translated as being a transgression. In understanding Victor’s need for transcending human limitations, Mary Shelley continues to highlight the boundaries that victor can in fact not break through. He is continuously confident.
Definition of Gothic Fiction
Gothic Fiction is a type of novel or romance popular in the late 18th and early 19th century. ‘The word ‘Gothic’ had mean ‘wild’, ‘ barbarous ‘and crude’.
Gothic is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death and at times romance. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The castle of attranto. In gothic fiction, characters are overcome with anger, sorrow and terror.
Frankenstein as a Gothic Science fiction
Frankenstein is an example of a gothic novel. In Frankenstein by marry Shelley, the Romantic, Gothic and Science fiction elements are combined to create a my serious and supernatural novel.
The situation were victor Frankenstein use body parts to create a monster gives a sense of terror and the idea of creating life is just unbelievable and terrifying. The way victor develops this task with science and technology is a new element for the readers at 1818,which adds to the story science fiction and cause the public to question or give an opinion on victor’s use of death for scientific experimentation and the creation of new life.
There is no logical or valid reason why victor decides to create a monster other than ambition. This feeling is oftrn being presented as wrong, and this is why it is represented by Frankenstein, a monster. Because it is typically one of the first things we read in a novel, a story’s setting holds great importance to the tone that the rest of the book will carry. Victor Frankenstein himself is a highly romantic character and dreams of breaking the boundaries of rationality and using his knowledge go beyond them.
Creation of monster of supernatural beings.
It is one of the themes of the gothic novel and gothic fiction which is common to the two works of fictions. In Frankenstein, the hero decides to invent a creature that will resemble a human being. He says :
“ I resolved to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet, in height, and proportional large”.
He start assembling materials:
“ I collected bones from charnel – house and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the Human frame The desecration rom and the slaughter house furnished many of my materials “.
The readers witnesses the Creation of the monster in chapter 5. The weather anxious. The operation tacks place in a “dreary night”.
The time is symbolic :- “It was already one in the morning “.
Frankenstein also has a creation spiritualism and you could say that marry Shelley wants to give the reader a kind of warning and teaching through the death of victor ‘s brother William and the tragic events that the Frankenstein family experience due to this fatal experiment the monster, his own creation.
Nature’s supernatural effect on Frankenstein and his monster nature influences us everyday, weather it is noticed by us or not. However, nature
Rarely has a supernatural effect on us in comparison to victor Frankenstein and his monster. Nature controls the plot of marry Shelley’s book frankenstein. The monsters existence represents the theme of the supernatural. The monster was created by unique bodies of the deceased.
The Gothic nature of monster
Marry Shelley ‘s novel Frankenstein implements many elements of the gothic genre in order to enhance her horror story. The two elements that animate this genre within the text the most are isolation of characters and the dark, gloomy setting where they are isolated. Shelley also incorporates scenes containing a sublime nature in order to make the monster appear more bizarre, however the scenes where he appears in a gothic setting provide a greater sense of terror for the reader, and increases the rider Sense of his looming presence and vengeful spirit.
The monster is a more effective character when he appears in these dark and gloomy setting sure, there is a sense of and granular when victor encounter him on mont Blanc amidst the beauty of nature. But the monster is Victor’s tormenters a demons to haunt him until he has his vengeance. The esence of this horror is only captured when the monster appear in the gothic nature.
Conclusion
Frankenstein by marry Shelley is a gothic scientific fiction novel in genre. And we prove this thing with help of this all the things Frankenstein is an example of a gothic novel. In Frankenstein by marry Shelley, the Romantic, Gothic and Science fiction elements are combined to create a mysterious and supernatural novel.
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Colin, Nicholls. Element of Mystery and the Supernatural in Frankenstein. 7 May 2014. March 2020 <https://prezi.com/ycnu-hiw2c4-/elements-of-mystery-and-the-supernatural-in-frankenstein/>.
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