Frankenstein-
MORTAL RESTRICTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE
The cautionary novel ‘Frankenstein’ drove parallel to ‘The Island” in attempts to pursue the journey of knowledge. Shelly began her writing with the influence of the industrial revolution which created ideas that became the back bone to this narrative. Victor Frankenstein is continually related as modern day Prometheus in parallel to Dr Merrick, in attempts to defy natural order. Victor begins his demise as he is “left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge”, such complimenting metaphors which both accompany each other in solidifying Victor’s relation to a childlike curiosity for a child evidently provokes within the audience ideals of his attempts to gain knowledge. Through the metaphoric comparisons of Victor to a child’s lust for knowledge, Shelley successfully begins in her attempts to brutally shape the audience in…show more content… With such religious connotations of “elixir of life” his ideals of his Godlike powers to animate life through death begin to be produced. Shelley reinforces her ideals of stepping past mortal boundaries in the search for such “Godlike” attempts to discovery.
MORAILITY VS AMORAILITY
The desire to remain alive is a natural sensation, a natural human imbedded instinct. Shelley proposes the desire to live long does not oppose what it means to be human, yet the obsession to avoid death regardless of price is the overhauling determinant to destruction. Humanity falls within the features of natural tendencies and yet the audience continually witness an internal argument within the characters of amorality. ‘Frankenstein’ elevates ideals of amorality by juxtaposing two such characters Victor and “the monster”. Victors narcissistic views only come to light as the narrative progresses, his ideals of “One man's life or death were but a small price to pay”
