1978. Choose an implausible or strikingly unrealistic incident or character in a work of fiction or drama of recognized literary merit. Write an essay that explains how the incident or character is related to the more realistic of plausible elements in the rest of the work. Avoid plot summary.
In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein there is booth an implausible event and an implausible character. The character of Frankenstein’s monster is the most implausible character. Mary Shelly uses Frankenstein‘s monster to show that humans ultimately destroy the world.
First the monster relates to the other characters by being a symbol of evil. In a moment of Distraught Dr. Frankenstein tries to create new human life but ends up creating a great foe. Later the monster kills Dr. Frankenstein’s brother. This shows that even when the intention is good the things humans crate are destructive. In the end of the novel the Monster asks Frankenstein to make him a wife. Frankenstein refuses and the monster kills Frankenstein’s friend. The way that this relates to the other characters is that Mary Shelly argues that humans are all created from evil and they all create evil.
Next the monster relates to other characters by because he is the antagonist. He prevents his creator from of having a clear conscious. This is yet another symbol of everything Humans create is destructive. Frankenstein cannot shake the feeling that he has done something wrong. He is to blame for his brother’s death and the other deaths from the monster. Mary Shelly uses this quilt to create a sense of guilt in the reader.
Mary Shelly uses the relationship between Frankenstein and his monster to prove that humans are to blame for all destruction. She shows that we as a race should feel guilty and that everything we do will eventually come back to bite us in the butt.
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