The Horrors of Frankenstein

Location

CSU 204

Start Date

5-4-2011 9:00 AM

End Date

5-4-2011 10:30 AM

Student's Major

English

Student's College

Arts and Humanities

Mentor's Name

Mary Susan Johnston

Mentor's Department

English

Mentor's College

Arts and Humanities

Description

Mary Shelley‘s literary masterpiece Frankenstein illustrates the consequences of creativity unchecked. The reader learns in shock about how these consequences affect Frankenstein‘s mind, his friends and family, and even the monster he creates. Frankenstein seeks to be worshipped as the creator of a new species. However, once he realizes with revulsion what he had done, it is too late. The monster is gone, and the downward spiral of Frankenstein‘s existence begins. My project will examine the negative consequences of Victor Frankenstein‘s creativity. Unlike modern movie adaptations which glorify Frankenstein for his genius, Mary Shelley‘s novel depicts the horrors that follow the creation of this grotesque being.

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The Horrors of Frankenstein

CSU 204

Mary Shelley‘s literary masterpiece Frankenstein illustrates the consequences of creativity unchecked. The reader learns in shock about how these consequences affect Frankenstein‘s mind, his friends and family, and even the monster he creates. Frankenstein seeks to be worshipped as the creator of a new species. However, once he realizes with revulsion what he had done, it is too late. The monster is gone, and the downward spiral of Frankenstein‘s existence begins. My project will examine the negative consequences of Victor Frankenstein‘s creativity. Unlike modern movie adaptations which glorify Frankenstein for his genius, Mary Shelley‘s novel depicts the horrors that follow the creation of this grotesque being.

Recommended Citation

Wild, David. "The Horrors of Frankenstein." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 5, 2011.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2011/oral-session-11/2