Mehmet Yiğit Güntekin

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Response Paper

George V. Griffith’s Criticism

In his article, the critic states that his book is the book that best reflects the Romantic era among the
books written at that time. Which is true because throughout the book the concepts of "subjectivity"
and "an emphasis on individualism" "spontaneity" and mostly "solitary life rather than life in society"
stand out. In particular, the character of "solitary life rather than life in society" frankeistein lives on
his own, in isolation, rather than in public. Actually, this is quite normal considering the character is
seen as a monster of abnormal size.
“His 'sin' is not solely in creating the monster, but in abandoning him to orphanhood at his birth, The
monster' unnatural birth is the product of what the romantic poet Wordsworth called humankind's
'medding intellect'. Childlike in his innocence the monster wants only to be loved, but he gets love
from neither his 'father' nor from any other in the human community. "
with this expression, the author emphasizes that a newborn child is innocent and hungry for education.
He says that Victor's crime is not creating the monster, but leaving him as an orphan by not protecting
and educating him. I think Frankeinstein was not a monster when he brought him back to life, he was
an orphan. Staying in isolation and living an isolated life caused him to turn into a monster.As a matter
of fact, maybe if Victor had not abandoned the monster, his son, but had become a father, it would
have been a different story. As a matter of fact, maybe Victor didn't abandon the monster, that is, his
son, and became a father. It could have been a different story.

"In other words, Victor and the monster are the same person. Hence, Victor must keep the monster
secret. His hope to create a being "like my self" is fulfilled in the monster whose murders we must see
as expressions of Victor's own desires . Victor calls himself "the true murderer" of Justine, who, along
with his brother William, he labels "the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts." Driven by
remorse, he wanders "like an evil spirit," his own wandering a When we see both in the outer frame of
the book, Victor pursues the monster, but it is the monster who has pursued Victor, whom he calls "my
last victim." Since Victor's story is a story of creation , murder, investigation, and pursuit,
Frankenstein is ultimately a book about our pursuit of self-discovery, about the knowledge of the
monster within us."
With this statement, the critic emphasizes that Victor and the monster are the same person. Maybe
this monster can be symbolized as the executioner of the suppressed emotions in Victor. Also, we
cannot call this statement of the author wrong. Because all these murders were indirectly committed
because of Victor. If he had not attempted an experiment or had taken a different approach towards the
monster after creating it, so many would not have died.