Mary Shelley discusses many important themes in her famous novel Frankenstein. She presents these themes through the characters and their actions, and many of them represent occurrences from her own life. There are more than five significant themes that appear in the novel such as creation, danger of sciences, and alienation. Yet, the most important theme that I have found in the novel is fate vs. personal choice. People believe that things happen the way it is because of their fate, so they do things
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a story of a man, Victor, who created a creature, Frankenstein. Frankenstein was created because of Victor’s ego and overindulgence in science. This was in reference to the Industrial Revolution, a period of new technology replacing man’s work, going on at the time the story was written. Frankenstein was forced to live alone because of his gruesome looks, and became an outcast from the world. When Victor ventures into the woods, he is confronted by the beast who
The way people become who they are has been argued for many years through the Nature vs. Nurture debate. Both sides have their merits, but in the end, it all comes down to your beliefs. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the theme of Nature vs. Nurture and how people learn important life lessons is very prominent all throughout the novel. She believes that who we are is learned from our environment, For example the learning process the Creature goes through, from a mere “child”, unable to speak and