Enlightenment in Frankenstein

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enlightenment. Science was a large part of the Enlightenment era, but not in the way in which Victor used it. Victor ends up playing god himself by creating life through his scientific research. Victor finally realizes that he has the ability to create life with the following quote from “Frankenstein”, “After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter” (Shelley, 42). This quote from “Frankenstein” shows that Victor has figured out how to create life. Realizing that he can create life would argue the existence of god. He has spent months trying to figure out how to create life, and once he finally accomplishes the task, he realizes it was not what he imagined. The way in which Victor created life did not have much reason, in which the Enlightenment was based on. He almost went mad trying to create the monster. Shelley critiqued ...

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the Orkneys, Chamounix, and the summit of Montanvert. Each of these descriptions set the mood of Victor’s character. Shelley allows many of the characters in the novel to have desires. She lets them have these desires even if they were nearly impossible to reach. Mary Shelley uses Romanticism throughout “Frankenstein” to critique original views of Enlightenment.
John Locke would defend the Enlightenment against the critiques in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. John Locke believed there was a god, and would have argued against Mary Shelley’s idea of a human creating life. Having a human being creating life would go against Locke’s state of nature. “A state also equality, ...

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