Week 7-9 Oranoos Shirvani

7. How does Frankenstein a) reference the Bible, b) foreshadow the Death of God and c) juggle genres as well as narrative points of view in its storytelling? 

 I will be answering question 7.

First, I don’t like this ghost story topic because its all about punishing people. Bring dead to life this is ghoulish. Mary Shelly is an English author who writes Frankenstein and published her novel book in 1818, Frankenstein has two different genres: Gothic novel and science fiction

 Mary Shelly’s was thinking about ghost then story came to her mind about a grotesque figure. She creates a fiction character called Frankenstein which is an unusual creature; she wants to frighten her reader that was her idea. They want story they wrote to create fear in their reader, the more fearful the better would be. When that monster in her mind came to life means through scientific experiment man could be created. It was science who created a man and people in those days forget about God. Science try to replace God, but the bible says: And God said, let us make man in our image (Genesis,1.10) “Male and female created he them“(Genesis, 1.26). Because God was perfect, he created a perfect man not a monster like ‘Frankenstein’. In other words, science could not create a perfect man.People feared Frankenstein because he was so ugly. Although he was a monster,but he tried to be fit in human society, but he was rejected, he was terribly unhappy about the way he looked he frighten everyone. Also, he was so lonely, so he seeks revenge against Victor who defines as a god and creator who died in Captain Walton’s ship while he running from monster and at the end he cry at Victor’s body because he felt he  lost his father (god) who made him but didn’t like him. Victor Frankenstein created him in the laboratory using the latest science, but then left him alone in the world surrounded by people who did not understand him and hated him, which made the monster very angry. When he finds Victor Frankenstein, he asked him to create a woman for him because he was looking for love and acceptance, but Victor didn’t want to create a monster race. Frankenstein mirrors the Bible creation story of Adam and Eve, and can be compared to Satan, as the fallen angel. He also wants miss monster and live with her in wilderness exactly like God created Eve for Adam because he does not want humans to be lonely. Certainly, Mary Shelly was not a Christian but a Pantheists (do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic God) as she starts imagining human becomes God. She believes human through technology can create life.

References:

Shelley, M. (1797). Frankenstein. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press.

Shelley, M. (2019). The Bible. Retrieved from https://www.shmoop.com/frankenstein/bible-symbol.html