We know, Frankenstein is the most widely read and have been influenced! Question is, If creature hasn’t narrate the story than do we define ‘Victor- as a real monster? Why we seek for the true meaning of Frankenstein, who is the real monster instead of who is the real human!

1. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Batch year: 2019-21
Romantic Literature
How would the story and its
meaning differ if we never got the
creature’s side of the story?
Enrollment number: 2069108420200018
MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR
UNIVERSITY
Presented by: Ruchi Joshi
ruchivjoshi101@gmail.com

2. Creature is created by Englishman but can’t accepted by
English society as Victor called him Monster

3. Narrated in the
first-person by
different
characters
Captain Walton (writing
a series of letters to his
sister Margaret)
Victor Frankenstein (tells
Walton about his life and
how he came to be
wandering in the Arctic.
Walton appreciates
Victor’s experience after
listening his story, first
Switched yet again
to the monster,
who narrates in
the first person
describing his
experiences.
Monster
Frankenstein tells
his own story and
goes beyond the both
Victor and readers.
At last returns to
Victor, who continues
his story.
Ends with a
return to
Walton’s point
of view and
first person
narration.

4. Language bears within itself the
necessity of its own critique,
deconstructive criticism aims to
show that any text any inevitably
undermines its own claims to have
a determinate meaning, and
licenses the reader to product his
own meanings out of it by an
activity of semantic ‘free play’.
“When falsehood can look so like the
truth, who can assure themselves of
certain happiness?”
Language speaks, not us
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’

5. Creature
Victor Frankenstein variously
condemns his creature as a
‘demon’, a ‘devil’ and a ‘fiend’.
Without having Monster
Frankenstein’s narration,
could we see we see if monster
hasn’t confess this:
‘I was Benevolent and
Good;
Misery made me a
Fiend’
To not name
something
dehumanizes it
and makes that
think an It- lack of
identity due to no
name fear of
unknown.

6. Fact of creature’s help to De Lacey family
• The monster learns that the De lacey family is
hungry, so he stops stealing their food and
feeds himself by foraging. He also starts
cutting wood for the family to burn in their
fireplace, freeing Felix's time for other
needed tasks.

7. I am thy creature:
I ought to be thy Adam
• From Creature’s aspect
• A matter of Morality and Spirituality
• Creature & Victor Frankenstein
“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from
all the world; but on that account we shall be
more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein

8. Victor Frankenstein
• Resemblance of identity
of beast
• Victor’s relationship with
his family is dying
relation
“Nothing is so painful to the human
mind as a great and sudden change.”
• Demonstrates his eloquence
• Convince Victor to listen his
own story.
• “Listen to me, Frankenstein.
You accuse me of murder;
and yet you would, with a
satisfied conscience, destroy
your own creature. Oh,
praise the eternal justice of
man!”
To whom we have soft corner ?
Creature

9. Real monster of ‘Frankenstein’-
Victor Frankenstein –
perhaps he mightn’t if creature didn’t discover his story
Beautiful soul
in ugly body.
Beautiful soul
in beautiful
body.
We might have suppose to agree that
outer beauty is all that matter!

10. Why we seek for the true meaning of
Frankenstein, who is the real monster
instead of who is the real human!
If creature hasn’t narrate
the story than do we define
‘Victor- as a real monster?

11. Though we got narrative of creature’s side, our
quest of questioning is on the right path?
Who is real monster
in Frankenstein?
Who is real human
in Frankenstein?

12. Story & meaning would have totally
changed
• Unreal demand
• certainty of future in derogatory sense
• Total opposite mirror the examination of
internalized consciousness.
• Creature would have been neglected and
not paid attention at all

13. Work Cited
Cottom, Daniel. “Frankenstein and the Monster of
Representation.” SubStance, vol. 9, no. 3, 1980, pp. 60–71. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/3683905. Accessed 24 Feb. 2020.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, et al. Frankenstein, the Modern
Prometheus. Macdonald & Co, 1988.
Mayer, Laura Reis. A Teachers Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of
George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion. Penguin Group.