Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft)

Frankenstein, the story of creator versus created. Mary Shelley as a young almost teenage female writer explores the agony of being with the deep voice of experience. The narrator is male and for most part Victor Frankenstein, a mentally fragile scientist who succeeds in creating life out of death. A monster becomes alive by his doing and creation, a begin that escapes and is shunned by the world. The creature is endowed with all the emotional and feeling capacities of a human being but is ugly since he is clothed in decayed human flesh as he is fashioned out of materials from the morgue.   

What is Mary Shelley trying to say? - Often the story has a tale of it's own and I can't really say that I come to grips of what it is. I didn't really enjoy this novel partly because the language wasn't consistent, at times it was very modern and at times very old and hard to decipher. Also, Mary didn't stay consistent with the plot and narration but those were minor flaws. I don't want to beat down on the text because of her age or sex, rather I would wish to know the enigma behind the story and it's teller, there is something more to Frankenstein (the book) and I believe this is a topic worthy to explore further. If I should now name just one takeaway key from the story itself it is this: kindness. The Creator is required to hear the created (an Universal truth well proved for example Job, and yes, Christ referred to him as a historic person, that's enough to convince me that Job did exist). Furthermore Mary Shelley was a smart young woman, she realized early on that in this fallen society of mankind, justice dies first, hence the death sentence of Justine Mortiz early on in the story, naturally her name means exactly that Justice Dies but revenge lives on.

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