English Literature

Frankenstein, also referred to as The Modern Prometheus is a novel which was written by Mary Shelley. Moreover, this novel speaks of a scientist, victor Frankenstein, who creates an monster with human characteristics but with larger than life attributes. In Germany, Frankenstein literally refers to stone of the Franks, which represents a region or a town. At university, victors interest in sciences urges him to research on how life decays. After creating the monster, he not only hates its features but also gets afraid of it and escapes. The first paradox which portrays itself is the fact that the scientist knowingly creates an object but at the end, he fears and abandons it. The creature experiences rejection and hostility from the humans. The second case of paradox occurs where victor fails to show responsibility to its creation although his parents cared for him when he was a child (Henry, 1992). He neglects his duties as a parent and his role as an adult which turns the creature into a vicious killer. The author tries to emphasize on importance of love which if not provided can change the personality of a person.
               
A theme which is predominant is that of loneliness. Both victor and his creation go through long spells of isolation. We see that his adventure detaches him from his relatives and he says that his only consolation was solitude. The monster on the other hand grew so lonely that he asked Victor to create another female monster.  

In the novel, we meet with the aspect of paradox as a rhetorical genre that is used to create an outcast of thematic expression of the anthology. By and large, paradox in the novel is used as a tool that aims at signifying the primary ideals in the essence of humanity without providing for the causal realization of what the same concept of humanity should uphold. Human life in this anthology is thus brought out as a form of paradox from the multiple contravening subjects that it is propagated through. Elsewhere, the novel is written in an alliteration form where scenic overviews tend to change in regard to the different settings of the novel (Henry, 1992). For instance, we hardly see at the very beginning of the novel that the important character, monster, is basically to provide and fend for himself using all the possible tactics and ways it may deploy.
Surprisingly, the same dogmatic scenario of the monster tends to abruptly change and lends him into personal writing and learning walking and talking. Either, observing the family of delacey, he finds himself obviously obligated in helping it maneuver from the agony of the hard life that it fetches from the hard way of living.

Rhetorical focus may also be underlined to the precept of verbal irony where, different characters express the ironic presumptions in a more verbal manner. For example, Frankenstein expresses is verbal ideology of ether been in deep love with the minister or wanting to kill it as an expression of total hatred (Henry, 1992). This imagination basically comes out to show his deepest concern with the role of the monster as it plays to him and the society as a whole.