Challenges Confronted in Life Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

Question: Discuss about the Report for Challenges Confronted in Life of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Answer: An Individuals Response to the challenges confronted in life with regard to Mary Shelleys Frankenstein: The urge of an individual to pursue against the set norms and the natural standards of the universe and master the art of creation makes the protagonist of the novel, Victor Frankenstein to undertake the process and rise above the Gods will. He ignores the authority of God and with the innovation of science and technology enables the creation of a living being without the creator or more precisely devoid of the processes that involve the two sexes in the creation of another living. Frankenstein acts as the mother and father or more appropriately the creator of the creature that he creates. He feels the joy of success after the achievement of his creation, because of the fact that he feels himself to be the superior being who has proved his capability by the creation of a living creature by going against the natural processes. The author very deftly portrays through the story and the events that take place in the novel, that the elimination of the natural factors that rule the entire universe by the human beings in order to realize their superiority above the God and his Nature results only in destruction and imbalance in the lives of the individuals who remain involved in the act. This idea remains the major one in the story upon which the author develops the entire novel and the events related to this proposed fact. In accordance with the authors view or idea that has been mentioned above, the readers are able to confront throughout the novel the challenges, both spiritual and moral that the characters face because of challenging the ethical and natural principles of life. Both Victor Frankenstein and the monster created by him through his knowledge of advanced technologies face the adverse consequences of such a creation. However, it is Frankenstein who undergoes the spiritual and moral purgation throughout the novel. The act of creation of the monster by the scientist and leaving him alone completely without any assistance or companion in the entire world makes the creature or the monster aggressive. He remains devoid of the love and care of a mother or father or any other companion. Frankenstein sets a very gruesome example by the creation of the monster, he shows his cruelty firstly in giving the living creature life devoid of any companion, and secondly the monstrous and dreadful features a nd the appearance rendered to the living creature by the scientist also make the monsters life very difficult and impossible to lead peacefully. The monster feels rejected by his creator, he feels as if he is rejected and left alone by his parents. The feeling of dejection and injustice on the part of the creator makes the monster set rebel against his creator. The monster is dreaded by all the human beings at all the places that he visits. He comes across and all the kinds of human relationships and the emotions associated with those relationships. He confronts the love affair between Frankenstein and his beloved, the monster also gets attracted towards his creators beloved. The monster also gets the realization of the true relationship of love between the parents and their children and between the two honest and true lovers come in contact with the family of Delaceys. However, the sad part of the monsters life remains that he is left all alone in this world without any sustenance by his own creator. He only gets the taste of the real life affairs from the observation of the various life events by remaining far away from the society. Thus, the monster challenges the realities of life all alone and rises to fight against the injustice by revolting against the contentment and peace of his creator, on the other hand the creator of the monster, Victor Frankenstein confronts all the challenges that were required for the arousal of the moral and spiritual development of the protagonist. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, although undertakes the creation of a living creature and attempts to prove himself a superior being , he fails to sustain his creation and do justice to it. It is for this reason that Frankenstein he faces the challenges and hardships in his further life. The monster after the observation of the humane aspects of real life acquires the moral values that one should develop within oneself, however he sets forth to take revenge against his creator for the sake of attaining the moral justice. Therefore, in the process Frankenstein loses his would be wife who is murdered by the monster. The monster seeks answer from his creator and demands for the creation of a mate. Frankenstein, although creates a mate for the monster he kills her dreading their future life. This makes the monster more aggressive that makes him kill William, the younger brother of Frankenstein as well as his wife Elizabeth on their wedding night. Thus, the scientist in his pursuit to gain superiority with the help of science by defying the norms of Nature loses his near and dear ones and has to deal with all adverse challenges that doom his life for the injustice that he commits with the innocent life of his creation. The loss that Frankenstein suffers purges him and makes him understand the moral and spiritual values of life. Frankenstein loses his life at the hands of his own creation, but he realizes the truth of life and his faults. He learns through his mistake. On the other hand, the Monster after confronting all the challenges during his pursuit to receive his identity in the society and strives to reconcile his own perception of himself. In this process, the new creation attains the self realization and realization about the ethical, spiritual aspects of life. Even though set apart from the society and civilization he grapples with the society by observing the acts and interactions of the people that give him knowledge about the facts that rule the life of the beings on this earth. Thus, Shelley through her novel emphatically puts forth the idea of the power of the Supreme Spirit or God and Nature that pervades over life, devoid of which the development and survival of a human being is unthinkable and will bring obliteration. References: Ingersoll, Andrew M. "Prometheus Unbound: Direct Current Electricity and Shelley's Response to Darwin's Savage Universe." (2014). Koretsky, Deanna P. "Unhallowed arts: Frankenstein and the Poetics of Suicide."European Romantic Review26.2 (2015): 241-260. Lger-St-Jean, Marie. "A Portrait of the Monster as Criminal, or the Criminal as Outcast: Opposing Aetiologies of Crime in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein."Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net62 (2012). 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