Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the tale of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who experienced a creation opposite of what he expected. A life-changing experiment resulted to be one which was deleterious to the scientist’s mentality, as well as his physical state. Throughout his attempt to escape all encounters from the monster, Frankenstein experiences the trauma of losing multiple loved ones, along with the guilt of putting many people in danger. These encounters embody Mary Shelley's own life and guilty conscience through the use of the monster, and Victor Frankenstein's character interactions.
Initially, the monster has parental issues, just as Mary Shelley had in her life. Her personal life discrepancies sets up the whole underlying…show more content… If the narrative model is indignant of her mental state, then the structure of the story, and characters’ specific actions make sense. Mary Shelley is showing premature signs of dissociative identity disorder. Dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity(WebMD). Often times, people develop DID after undergoing major trauma. In Shelley’s case, multiple miscarriages, carrying the burden of her mother’s death, and facing rejection from multiple loved ones allpoint to Shelley’s DID. In the case of Robert Walton, “ I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans” (Letter 2, Walton).Walton’s state of loneliness is his catalyst for DID. The trauma accompanied from loneliness elucidates to his need for relief. This rings true for Victor and the monster, “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes-.” Through the monster’s creation, Frankenstein's trauma is established. The character’s are seemingly different, yet parallel actions all represent Shelley’s own multiple perspectives of the same event. The parallels established help to elucidate the truth as Mary Shelley sees it. The multiple consciousness from the various characters within the novel represent Shelly’s multiple
