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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Ponder this as well...
What
does Shelley show happening when we violate the natural order?
Shelley shows the audience the negative effects of violating natural order in Frankenstein. “This was the commencement of a nervous fever, which confided me for several months” (55). Violating the natural order caused Shelley to feel extremely ill and nervous for several months. Shelley was easily frightened after making the monster that violated the natural order. It never occurred to Shelley that finding a cure for death would violate natural order and mentally scar him for months.
As Shelley speaks with Victor, she points out that Victor "seemed to have lost all soul or sensation" (Shelley 53) from putting so much devotion into his fate. Since Victor violates the natural order of things he seems to become a part of the monster that he created. Victor's constant labors have deteriorated his mental and physical health. Ever since his solitary confinement he has been "nervous to a painful degree" and "alarmed at the wreck I perceived I had become".(Shelley 55). Victor who spent so much time in his occupation has now felt horror and disgust from playing the role of God , creating a abomination in the process.
Shelly shows that the violation of the natural order leaves an individual without sound mind or body. The death of Frankenstein’s mother drives his goal to triumph over life and death leading to the creation of a “monster”. The realization that this entity is unnatural and unbefitting of this world robs him of mental coherence and physical health, leaving in its place “a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account; and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter… [which] astonished him” (54-55). Frankenstein’ anomaly fails to yield success and moreover permeates his mind with “the form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence” (55). Frankenstein’s thirst for knowledge is an instance in which overreaching ambitions develop into the crossing of boundaries that produce turmoil.
In Chapter 5, Victor Frankenstein laments his disgust and horror at the creature that he took two years to create ["I had desired it with an ardour...and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (Shelley 56); "Oh! No horror could support the horror of my countenance" (Shelley 57)]. What Shelley is trying to convey through Frankenstein's disgust is that when one violates the natural order of things, it only produces chaos (literally and metaphorically) and fear. What is very ironic about Frankenstein's disgust is that he was slavishly devoted to creating a human being, yet when he sees the finished product, he despises it. Frankenstein has realized that his ambition has led him to create a monster; therefore, he has violated the natural order of things by trying to play God. His repulsive feelings toward his creation is a metaphor for the chaos that is produced when the natural order is violated. Frankenstein's fever, which is described on pg. 57, seems to be foreshadowing the horrific consequences Frankenstein will have to endure due to his uncontrolled ambition.
Shelly shows once a person violates the natural order the lose their humanity of all life and only see what their mind wants to see,"In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit"(Shelley 77-78). Frankenstein becomes a person who only believe what science proves what is real or false which enables him to do things that are disrespect to others which would be using body parts from the dead. Therefore by him violating this natural order he loses his mind and slow goes insane just as if poison slowly slipping through his body to his brain.
Shelley shows that the disruption of natural order causes the deterioration of ones mental state. "I sleep indeed but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams"(51). Frankstein's mind became consumed with grosteque dreams and hallucinations even in his sleep. His obsession with knowledge became hazardous to his sanity, isolating him from his family, friends , and the outside world.
Shelley show that when you violate the natural order, it leaves one mentally and physically deprived. As Victor began making his "creation,"' he began to shut out everyone and himself neglecting his health and his psyche. "My cheek had grown pale with study and my person had become emaciated with confinement" (Shelley 48). When encountering Clerval, his great friend, at an unexpected time he became frantic at the thought of inviting him back to his quarters. " 'My dear Victor,' cried he, 'what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill are you! What is the cause of all this?' " (Shelley 55).
Shelley talks about how he had to change his mind set from happy to sad in a way "changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflection upon self" . Also when he went to a party at such a young age it kinda reveild something that he probably should have been a little older to expirence "he had partically unveiled the face of nature".
In the novel, Shelly continues to express on how Victor Frankenstein's mind had become increasingly damaged after the death of his mother. In other words Shelly believes that one's mental institution must go through a period of insanity to truly violate "natural order". In Chapter 5, after Frankenstein created the "monster", he completely goes in a state of terror, and thus begins to vividly nightmare about his loved ones. "I thought I saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health...Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel..."(Shelley 43). At this point it could interpreted that Shelly needed to show the mental distress Victor Frankenstein is in because of his decision to change the "natural order" of life.
Shelly shows that violating the natural order can cause an imbalance in the state of a person. It can cause the violator to feel mentally and physically ill because they become careless about their health. Frankenstein is observed by his friend who remarks, “I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale” (54). This illustrates that Frankenstein did not devote any time to himself while creating a monster that violated the natural order, ultimately resulting in his illness. Furthermore, the violation can cause one to overlook their feelings and its receiver, as Frankenstein wished, “to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed” (49). The feelings mostly related to his family, whom he very much admired.
In the beginning of chapter five Shelly shows how the narrator assumes that the natural order of life is changeable because he believes the natural order of life is based on the ideas and feelings, and feelings are changeable . "The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature"(51). The narrator's thesis is soon disproved when his vision did not come out as he expected it to and his feelings changed. "I had finished, the beauty of a dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created."(51). The narrator's thesis was disproved as a presumed monster was created. Unnatural actions yield unpredictable and unnatural reactions.
Shelley shows that the violation of natural order can cause deterioration and imbalance of one’s physical and mental state. As victor creating this monster, he started to move himself further and further apart from people. So caught up in his creation he had forgotten all about his own personal hygiene, neglecting his body and health. "My cheek had grown pale with study and my person had become emaciated with confinement" (Shelley 48). Victor Frankenstein had his mind set on creating a creature that had the resemblance of a human being, but the ironic part about it is when he sees the monster, he is disgusted and horrified. Victor Frankenstein thought that he could play god, and there wouldn’t be any consequences and it later comes back to bite him.
Throughout the reading of Chapter 5, Shelly shows that when we violate the natural order a dramatic change happens in ones mental state. Frankenstein was trying to create something that he thought was pretty unique, but it turned out to be a monster and it messed with his mind mentally. As stated in the text, " I sleep indeed,but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams." (54). This shows how things can really mess with your brain mentally and have someone thinking about things totally different when a person violate the natural order.
As Chapter 5 commences, Shelley attempts to explain life as it relates to natural order, "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body" (Shelley 51). Later, Shelley reveals, through Frankenstein's actions, that violating natural order can lead to psychological sickness. As Frankenstein created this monster, he isolated himself from the outside world. As a result, his mental, emotional, and physical well being were in jeopardy. In essence, Shelley shows the dangers of mental incapability if natural order is violated.
Shelly shows that by violating the natural order we disrupt the way we have been set up to think and comprehend our surroundings. "... dreams that had been my foo and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the over throw so complete!" (Shelley 43) explains how his mentality had been attacked by this disruption. He is going going crazy with his newly disrupted through process.
Shelley shows that nature's order is not to be messed with. that the what you want will not always be what you get. Through Victor she shows that things go wrong and that you cant just do what you want and that you want get what you want. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and cares i had endeavoures to form?...I selcted his features as beatiful. Beatiful." (86,Chapter 5). Is intended to be an example of how you cant alter nature. that experiments can go wrong when you try to alter natures intentinal order. She shows that science can not alter natures order and the way that things are made and done.
Shelley explains life as it relates to natural order in a way that messing with the natural order if situations or people is not acceptable. Everything is meant to be the way it is placed without any disturbances. Interfering with the natural order shows the flaws that we have. I had so miserably given life is what Shelley says in Chapter 5 . Stating that things should be left in their natural state and affecting the order of them can intefere with many other things.
Shelley shows the audience the negative effects of violating natural order in Frankenstein. “This was the commencement of a nervous fever, which confided me for several months” (55). Violating the natural order caused Shelley to feel extremely ill and nervous for several months. Shelley was easily frightened after making the monster that violated the natural order. It never occurred to Shelley that finding a cure for death would violate natural order and mentally scar him for months.
ReplyDeleteMiss Pope, please remember that our Narrator, Victor Frankenstein, is separate from our author, Mary Shelley.
DeleteAs Shelley speaks with Victor, she points out that Victor "seemed to have lost all soul or sensation" (Shelley 53) from putting so much devotion into his fate. Since Victor violates the natural order of things he seems to become a part of the monster that he created. Victor's constant labors have deteriorated his mental and physical health. Ever since his solitary confinement he has been "nervous to a painful degree" and "alarmed at the wreck I perceived I had become".(Shelley 55). Victor who spent so much time in his occupation has now felt horror and disgust from playing the role of God , creating a abomination in the process.
ReplyDeleteShelly shows that the violation of the natural order leaves an individual without sound mind or body. The death of Frankenstein’s mother drives his goal to triumph over life and death leading to the creation of a “monster”. The realization that this entity is unnatural and unbefitting of this world robs him of mental coherence and physical health, leaving in its place “a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account; and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter… [which] astonished him” (54-55). Frankenstein’ anomaly fails to yield success and moreover permeates his mind with “the form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence” (55). Frankenstein’s thirst for knowledge is an instance in which overreaching ambitions develop into the crossing of boundaries that produce turmoil.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 5, Victor Frankenstein laments his disgust and horror at the creature that he took two years to create ["I had desired it with an ardour...and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (Shelley 56); "Oh! No horror could support the horror of my countenance" (Shelley 57)]. What Shelley is trying to convey through Frankenstein's disgust is that when one violates the natural order of things, it only produces chaos (literally and metaphorically) and fear. What is very ironic about Frankenstein's disgust is that he was slavishly devoted to creating a human being, yet when he sees the finished product, he despises it. Frankenstein has realized that his ambition has led him to create a monster; therefore, he has violated the natural order of things by trying to play God. His repulsive feelings toward his creation is a metaphor for the chaos that is produced when the natural order is violated. Frankenstein's fever, which is described on pg. 57, seems to be foreshadowing the horrific consequences Frankenstein will have to endure due to his uncontrolled ambition.
ReplyDeleteShelly shows once a person violates the natural order the lose their humanity of all life and only see what their mind wants to see,"In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit"(Shelley 77-78). Frankenstein becomes a person who only believe what science proves what is real or false which enables him to do things that are disrespect to others which would be using body parts from the dead. Therefore by him violating this natural order he loses his mind and slow goes insane just as if poison slowly slipping through his body to his brain.
ReplyDeleteShelley shows that the disruption of natural order causes the deterioration of ones mental state. "I sleep indeed but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams"(51). Frankstein's mind became consumed with grosteque dreams and hallucinations even in his sleep. His obsession with knowledge became hazardous to his sanity, isolating him from his family, friends , and the outside world.
ReplyDeleteShelley show that when you violate the natural order, it leaves one mentally and physically deprived. As Victor began making his "creation,"' he began to shut out everyone and himself neglecting his health and his psyche. "My cheek had grown pale with study and my person had become emaciated with confinement" (Shelley 48). When encountering Clerval, his great friend, at an unexpected time he became frantic at the thought of inviting him back to his quarters. " 'My dear Victor,' cried he, 'what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill are you! What is the cause of all this?' " (Shelley 55).
ReplyDeleteShelley talks about how he had to change his mind set from happy to sad in a way "changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflection upon self" . Also when he went to a party at such a young age it kinda reveild something that he probably should have been a little older to expirence "he had partically unveiled the face of nature".
ReplyDeleteIn the novel, Shelly continues to express on how Victor Frankenstein's mind had become increasingly damaged after the death of his mother. In other words Shelly believes that one's mental institution must go through a period of insanity to truly violate "natural order". In Chapter 5, after Frankenstein created the "monster", he completely goes in a state of terror, and thus begins to vividly nightmare about his loved ones. "I thought I saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health...Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel..."(Shelley 43). At this point it could interpreted that Shelly needed to show the mental distress Victor Frankenstein is in because of his decision to change the "natural order" of life.
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ReplyDeleteShelly shows that violating the natural order can cause an imbalance in the state of a person. It can cause the violator to feel mentally and physically ill because they become careless about their health. Frankenstein is observed by his friend who remarks, “I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale” (54). This illustrates that Frankenstein did not devote any time to himself while creating a monster that violated the natural order, ultimately resulting in his illness. Furthermore, the violation can cause one to overlook their feelings and its receiver, as Frankenstein wished, “to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed” (49). The feelings mostly related to his family, whom he very much admired.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of chapter five Shelly shows how the narrator assumes that the natural order of life is changeable because he believes the natural order of life is based on the ideas and feelings, and feelings are changeable . "The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature"(51). The narrator's thesis is soon disproved when his vision did not come out as he expected it to and his feelings changed. "I had finished, the beauty of a dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created."(51). The narrator's thesis was disproved as a presumed monster was created. Unnatural actions yield unpredictable and unnatural reactions.
ReplyDeleteShelley shows that the violation of natural order can cause deterioration and imbalance of one’s physical and mental state. As victor creating this monster, he started to move himself further and further apart from people. So caught up in his creation he had forgotten all about his own personal hygiene, neglecting his body and health. "My cheek had grown pale with study and my person had become emaciated with confinement" (Shelley 48). Victor Frankenstein had his mind set on creating a creature that had the resemblance of a human being, but the ironic part about it is when he sees the monster, he is disgusted and horrified. Victor Frankenstein thought that he could play god, and there wouldn’t be any consequences and it later comes back to bite him.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the reading of Chapter 5, Shelly shows that when we violate the natural order a dramatic change happens in ones mental state. Frankenstein was trying to create something that he thought was pretty unique, but it turned out to be a monster and it messed with his mind mentally. As stated in the text, " I sleep indeed,but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams." (54). This shows how things can really mess with your brain mentally and have someone thinking about things totally different when a person violate the natural order.
ReplyDeleteAs Chapter 5 commences, Shelley attempts to explain life as it relates to natural order, "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body" (Shelley 51). Later, Shelley reveals, through Frankenstein's actions, that violating natural order can lead to psychological sickness. As Frankenstein created this monster, he isolated himself from the outside world. As a result, his mental, emotional, and physical well being were in jeopardy. In essence, Shelley shows the dangers of mental incapability if natural order is violated.
ReplyDeleteShelly shows that by violating the natural order we disrupt the way we have been set up to think and comprehend our surroundings. "... dreams that had been my foo and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the over throw so complete!" (Shelley 43) explains how his mentality had been attacked by this disruption. He is going going crazy with his newly disrupted through process.
ReplyDeleteShelley shows that nature's order is not to be messed with. that the what you want will not always be what you get. Through Victor she shows that things go wrong and that you cant just do what you want and that you want get what you want. "How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and cares i had endeavoures to form?...I selcted his features as beatiful. Beatiful." (86,Chapter 5). Is intended to be an example of how you cant alter nature. that experiments can go wrong when you try to alter natures intentinal order. She shows that science can not alter natures order and the way that things are made and done.
ReplyDeleteShelley explains life as it relates to natural order in a way that messing with the natural order if situations or people is not acceptable. Everything is meant to be the way it is placed without any disturbances. Interfering with the natural order shows the flaws that we have. I had so miserably given life is what Shelley says in Chapter 5 . Stating that things should be left in their natural state and affecting the order of them can intefere with many other things.
ReplyDelete