Monday, October 19, 2009

"It's alive. Again"

"It's alive Again."(Whitty). Stephen Whitty wrote an article about Mary Shelley's monster being alive again after 183 years of his literary birth. Mary Shelley was publicly humiliated and criticized. she lived a hard life of having many and most of her children die. i think that when she wrote Frankenstein she was putting her own life into part of the book and some of the character in it. this article makes sense in the fact that Mary Shelley wrote the book in comparison to her life. Shelley was different then most of the public so she didn't really fit in well with them. which was kind of the same in the case with the creature victor created. he could not fit in with man he had to struggle to live on his own. "Mary Shelley was not writing about the evils of science and progress. But suffering and loss and pain, the feeling of being ostracized-"(Whitty). the book did have horror and science but the book was filled with pain and suffering and loss as well. As Whitty says, "There's a bit of the creature in all of us." We all have some kind of creature in all of us and it is just waiting to come out into the world. Some of us have pain and suffering and others of us have joy and happiness. everyone goes through some sort of emotional even physical time on their lives, and Shelley put that in her book Frankenstein.

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