- Stephanie Moore (Peer Critique)

Nature can cure the mind more than most medicines. Whenever Victor Frankenstein is suffering from an ailment of the mind he seeks out nature to help him rather than the medicines of a doctor, after the guilt of Justine's hanging took over him he sought the healing of mother nature and traveled all over the world. Victor finds nature to be peaceful, he can admire the calmness and let it melt away his problems.

 How would you feel if everything you had ever created has been copied by somebody else? That is the idea that Mary Shelley tried to convince her audience that had read Frankenstein. She identified how life creation should only be developed by the eyes of god. What this means is victor created a creature ( acting like god, trying to pursuit in the creation of life) to fulfill the life of many, making life extended. He creates life to destroy life. Thais a reason on why the motif is death. it was repeated throughout the story even before the creature was created. Starting with Caroline. Death plays a major effect because it affects the storys feeling and how it makes a hand in hand connection on how the characters are effected. Overall Mary Shelley created Frankenstein to tell us the pressure and effects of life, and how we can not be the reason for creation. 

 

Nature plays a major role in the novel Frankenstein. Not only does it seem to restore and affect the characters’ moods. The association of nature and human feeling shows how Shelley prefers to use metaphor of a natural setting rather than other descriptions. Nature acted as a restorative agent for Victor’s health and his spirits. When he was sick, he was not completely healed until he breathed the fresh air. Nature, however, did punish him when he tried to obey its rules. When Victor tried to create life in his own terms nature gave him a monster. On top of making a creature, he neglected it, so nature further punished him by having the creature turn into his downfall as well as the downfall of all the people he loved. Shelley probably chose this theme due to the loss of her baby. No matter how bad she wanted to bring it back, she could not because that is how nature works and it should not be messed with.

Callie Rife

Austin French

Justin Leis

Nature cures the soul in many ways. In Mary Shelley’s novel one of her characters, Victor Frankenstein goes on many adventures throughout nature to get away from a lot of the conflict between characters and himself. As the no name monster starts to kill everyone Victor Frankenstein loves, Victor starts to go into depression. Alphonse (Victor's Father) wants nothing more than Victor and Elizabeth to get married, but Victor has his mind elsewhere. He tells his father he wishes to go to London to study. Both Henry Clerval and Victor  journey up the Rhine River to the North Sea. Mary Shelley mentions the places along the way that are important to her like the vineyards, the cliffs, the islands in the river, and the ordinary people who carry on their lives on such a beautiful land. So when Victor and Henry was sailing down the river he got to see the beauty of nature; the wonderful colors and smells. He also loved how happy Henry was, and how Henry always had a smile on his face. While Victor sat there on that boat, looking at the beautiful scenery. Looking at Henry; he forgot his worries and fears. Victor sat there and smiled his depression slowly disappear for awhile.   Ashlee Stiefel

In the novel Frankenstein there is a secret that victor is keeping from his family and friends.

The secret of creating life which leads to Victor’s brother, William his Friend, Henry and his wife Elizabeth’s  death. As  Victor keeps this secret it causes the ones he loves around him to be hurt. Victor doesn’t want anyone to know about the hideous creation which is the monster. When Victor creates the monster he leaves him to figure things out on his own which makes the creature mad so he goes around killing Victor’s friend and loved ones. 

Edited by: Maddie Shoup

Max Webb

Edited by:Skyler Wise

Edited By: Dustin Austin

"About this time we retired to our house at Belrive. This change was particularly agreeable to me. The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock, and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour, had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me. I was now free. Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat, and passed many hours upon the water" (62) There is a sense of responsibility in creating something important like life. Victor like a parent births the monster then fail in taking responsibility for his “kid” Victor did not realize his actions have consequences. Victor fails his duty to take care and teach creature right from wrong. Because of this the creature gets made fun of and picked on then unleashes hate on his creator's family. The creature gets revenge on Victor and takes away everything “that” Victor ever loved and had.