Dear all, you give convincing proof that Victor wants to be a creator and nothing less. The novel is explicit about it, indeed, although at one point the overcoming of death, motivated by Victor's loss of his mom, seems to be the highest goal. But as you well show, it's not. More is at stake: the desire to be the creator of a new species. This answer begs another question, which my perceptive friend asked in a very direct manner "why did Mary Shelley make her protagonist so ambitious; why does she have him play God rather than Jesus?" It's tempting to answer this through Shelley's biography, but I wonder how we'd answer it, if this were an anonymous novel (and there were plenty of them in Shelley's time). So just taking the novel as our only resource, why do you think this novelist (let's say we have no clue that she's a woman, and one called Mary Shelley) finds the creator figure more enabling than a story about overcoming death (one dead body brought to life). In other words, what ideas does the novel convey through this creator-figure that cannot be equally explored through a more straightforward story of resurrection?
Téo
21/4/2018 17:22:32
Hi Enit,
Olena
23/4/2018 15:20:29
At first I thought that perhaps creating a new being – rather than resurrecting one – is more conducive to the terror that the Creature wreaks. However, there is no guarantee that a resurrected corpse wouldn't experience the same alienation and anger, or react in the same way.
Giulia
23/4/2018 16:18:44
I think that by having a character such as Frankenstein (a creator male figure) it is possible to tackle the discourse of gender from a different point of view. Comments are closed.
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