Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Frankenstein: Hope and Despair

Q10. Frankenstein swings between "hope" and "despair". Explain?

The whole novel Frankenstein swings between hope and despair, first it gives us hope of something and then we have despair at last. There are so many characters in the novel who express the theme of Hope and Despair:-

1. Character of Elizabeth



Character of Elizabeth swings between hope and despair. At first  she hopes for happy married life. She wants to marry with Victor. She dreams a lot for future, but what she get is only despair. Victor leave all his family members and went for creating monster who serve humanity. Elizabeth remains all alone.

2- Character of Victor



Victor hopes for serving mankind and for that he make a creature,who has super power than normal human beings. But he also get despair because his creation turns into evil monster who started killing mankind to take revenge.

3- Character of Monster



Monster wants someone who understand his feelings, with whom he can share all his thoughts. He also met De-lacey, blind old man and communicate with him because he is the only one who can't see monster's ugliness. But there monster also get disappointment because De-Lacey family left out that place.

4- Character of Justine



Justine is the nanny of  William, younger brother of Victor. Justine is very much attached with him, But when monster kills William, all the blame goes to Justine and she was killed by public linching. Therefore Justine gets despair in cost of serving William.

In this way most of the characters of Frankenstien are swings from hope and despair.

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