science vs nature in frankenstein
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Presented by: Ranjan P. VelariClass: M.A. Sem. 2Paper No. : 5 (Romantic Literature)Batch Year- 2014-16Enrolment No. : 14101032Email id: [email protected]: Heenaba ZalaSubmitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi
Department of EnglishM. K. Bhavnagar University
Science vs. Nature in Frankenstein
Biography of Mary Shelley
Born- 30 August 1797
Death- 01 February 1851
English Novelist, Short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer and travel writer.
Best known for her Gothic novel “Frankenstein” or “the Modern Prometheus” (1818)
Historical Novels- Valperga (1823), Perkin Warbeck (1830)
Apocalyptic Novel- The Last Man (1826)
Final two novels- Ladore (1835) & Faulkner (1837)
Science vs. Nature Science related to machinery, lightening and also
technology. Nature related to natural elements and another meaning of ‘nature’ is human behaviour.
Victor represents Science and Monster represents Nature.
Mary Shelley represents life as “pathetic game”, which has other meaning than depression, and grief.
Death of Elizabeth’s parents, the sickness of Elizabeth, the sickness and death of Victor’s mother, murder of William and the beheading of Justine.
She also represents Nature and life as very pleasant. This is done by the illustration of love, kindness and compassion.
Science and Nature depended upon each other.
Nature and Science have a life and death relationship.
Combining life and death into a situation.
Mary Shelley gives us an idea or warning towards Science and Scientific knowledge.
The idea of human nature.
Victor’s nature represents possession, anxiety, greed and the desire for supremacy.
Return to Nature
Victor is trying to create life artificially to destroy death itself.
Victor rises against natural laws.
Victor is trying to overtake God’s work and power.
Similarity between him and his creation.
Both are against their own creators.
Monster is the another side of Victor.
Example of Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost
We can conclude that Shelley compares them in a way which only is not in favour of both Science and Nature.
