VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ‘S CREATURE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY

    Inside our minds, we all look for analysis; to stop every thought and dream’s stages. When this is impossible, contradictions and all kind of psychic movements appear; the beauty of the mind is not the ability to forget but to conceal darkness within itself; and to go deeper down towards our souls, to seed something else; maybe a ghost whose only job is to torture us. As an image, we all seem to wander around a fantasy world trying to find tales, stories, rumours of the inexplicable:  the fiction. Regarding this, we also convey the impression to be compelled by our human nature to seek what we cannot find for it transmits a profound secret that lies inside ourselves, a full mystery, one that cannot be paid for.

  Frankenstein and sickness are also related to the Industrial Revolution. In this industrial age, diseases as Cholera and Typhoid took many lives.  These diseases appeared because of the lack of hygiene and the little knowledge of sanity care; they were caused by the conditions in what people lived and worked. They were specially spread through the water. However, the main killer in the cities was the Tuberculosis.

   The famous novel “Frankenstein”  introduced pseudoscience into the horror genre. He created an eight feet tall creature out of old body parts and strange chemicals, animated by a mysterious spark. Victor became famous and fascinated with the secret of life, discovered it and with his knowledge about modern science he brought a monster to life. Victor practised pseudoscience or a creation incorrectly presented as scientific but it did not add a valid scientific method, could not be really tested . Shelley used elements from nature to make the story frightened, like a  dark forest that made the readers really know about  what was going to happen.  

   In the book Frankenstein ‘s creature is rejected by everyone who sees him , even by his own creator. Since that, he is not welcomed in the cities and villages, so he starts living in the wood. Later, he finds a family who lives in a cottage and decides to help them because of their poor conditions, by ceasing to steal their food , and too many things more. This is one of the positive aspects of his personality we can see in the book, but later on, when the family  sees the monster, they decided to leave the cottage. It is debatable whether the creature was a monster from the start or whether he became one because of the way he was treated.

     In conclusion, Victor’s mind showed the  weak side of a man who had been once glorified by his genius, and also the lack of ability to face the responsibility of his acts for creating a monster and that the creature killed people he loved.   Furthermore, he took several days to recover from illness and it would mean that his body and mind needed time to recover from the shock of what was going on. Personally, I think  Shelley may be expressing that if you do not  act in a good way, you would not be healthy in a mentally or physically way; just because everything in life has a price, and their consequences too.  Furthermore, the book’ context was a time of changing and many people were frightened of them . As a result, this influenced their attitude towards Victor’s works. We can say that today’s society is not welcomed to a creature like Frankenstein with an open mind.