"Frankenstein"

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This paper discusses the novel, "Frankenstein," (otherwise known as "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus") written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It particularly focuses on Shelley's choice of first name (Victor) for her character of Frankenstein. It discusses the meanings behind the name and how these add to the character that she is trying to portray in her book.

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"Victor is the God of modern science, he embodies the close and often fuzzy boundaries of the nature of life and death, creation and destruction that to most are supposed to be decisions and actions reserved for God. Shelley, conceived of her Victor the scientific naturalist with secular unsentimental reasoning as a man with a desire to do good, who goes about it in all the wrong ways and creates a life that he cannot control and cannot force to do good. The world is ten left with his legacy, "the beast" holding himself from humanity but unsure of how to end or even begin this life he did not choose. The beast is left to continue to wander or to possibly choose his own death, but it is unlikely given the nature of the "good job" Victor had in creating him if he could venture to do so without the aide of another human hand, one he is destined never again to touch."

Sample of Sources Used:

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