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Hey Everybody! I'm writing an essay for my English class and I just thought I'd figure out what you guys think would make it stronger. Please tell me what you think. Tell me what I could do to make it better. Note: It has no conclusion yet, so if anyone has any ideas feel free to should them out! Friendship in Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a book that everybody thinks that they understand because of accepted steryotypes, but few actually know the complexity of the story. It is a tale about a young scientist who discovers the secret of life and then reanimates a body he built from various corpses. He then becomes horrified by the abhorrent “monster†he created, and abandons him. Throughout the story, friendship between the characters serves as a universal remedy for misfortune. In Robert Walton’s opening letters, he explains to his sister about how he needs a friend on his voyage to the North Pole. He worries that when he is glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be no one to take part in his joy; if he is assailed by disappointment, no one will sustain him in dejection. In Walton’s view, even if he does reach the North Poe successfully, it would be bittersweet because there would be no one to share in his happiness. “How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!†(18). If only he had a friend, he would be content and he’d be able to continue his trip to the best of his ability. Robert finds this friend in Victor Frankenstein, who he discovered exausted in the Arctic, and has a new sense of happiness. “I said in one of my letters, my dear Margret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.†(26). Being friendless on a ship in the North Pole made Walton depressed, but the friend he finds in Victor heals his sadness. Friendship also heals the woes of Victor. After he gives life to the creation, he becomes disgusted and abhorred by what he has done and abandons him. When he is raoming the streets the morning after the birth of his “monsterâ€, he meets his old friend Geneva, Henry Clerval. “I grasped his hand, and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune; I felt suddenly, and for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy.†(58). The introduction of his friend relieves Victor’s sadness, and makes him joyful again after months of creating, what was to him, a wretched beast. Victor soon becomes very sick and Henry nurses him for several months reanimating his spirits. When Victor is well again, Henry brings him out to admire the beauty of nature. “Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow creatures and rendered me unsocial, but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature and the cheerful faces of children. Excellent friend!†(68). Henry came to Victor when he was sick and troubled and revived his friend’s misery. Victor’s creation also feels that a companion could cure some of his grief. After being deserted by his creator, the creation lives a hard life of being rejected by all humans. The creation begs Victor to create for him a wife so that he could have someone to love him. “ I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.†(139). The creation’s entire existence had been marked by rejection and he figured that the only thing that could accept him would be someone else like him. “Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.†(139). The creature realizes that even with such a companion his life is not going to be happy, but he knows that it will be better.
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Very good. Only thing I would say is to go more in depth with it. What you've got here is well written, but you're outlining the plot and talking about the plot through the whole thing, when you could analyze the characters more, go more into emotions, reasons behind actions, authors purpose and effects on society.
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