FRANKENSTEIN

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a Gothic novel which was published in 1818. The novel begins with a series of letters from the explorer Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville. It is Walton, who finds Victor Frankenstein near death, listens to his tale and records it in letters. The protagonist  of the story is Victor who creates an intelligent, but grotesque monster, from whom  be recoils in horror. The subtitle of the novel alludes to Frankenstein as a Promethean figure, striving against human limitations to bring light and benefit to mankind. His fall results from his failure and inability to give love to his creature. The monster seeks a female mate for him. When Victor refuses to create one, the monster narrates his tragic story. From the time be took birth, be endured rejection from mankind, but never retaliated. As a result, be decides to take revenge on his creator's family to avenge the injury and sorrow be endures from others. The monster kills his near and dear ones, even killing his wife on their wedding night. Victor Frankenstein vows to devote the rest of his life to find the monster and exacting his revenge and be soon departs to begin his quest. Frankenstein chases the monster through Europe and Russia. be is on the verge of death, when the monster comes to visit him for the last time. The monster mourns for all that he has done, but maintains that he could not have done otherwise, given the magnitude of his suffering. At the end of the novel, the monster disappears in the waves and darkness.