Religion In Frankenstein Research Paper

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David Fanaras
English 4A
Mr. Farrington
1/9/17

Genesis Remastered
In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the idea of religion is a basis of many events during the novel. The whole idea of Dr. Frankenstein creating an artificial person is to be a creator. Many other ideas in the book revolve around the idea of religion including sinning and confession. Many of the characters have their own personal experience with the topic closely resembling someone from the bible. There are two main allusions to the bible, where Victor resembles God and The Creature resembles Adam. In Chapter four Dr. Frankenstein is super fascinated by nature and natural philosophy. While studying natural philosophy at his university he stumbles across the secret of creating …show more content…
Shelley is basing all of the religious aspects of this novel based off the epic poem Paradise Lost and Genesis rather than general ideologies of the Christian church and christianity. Shelley adds her own twist to the idea of religion speaking out against it basically saying that we can reach conclusions by ourselves and that God isn’t always there for us. For example, in chapter 17 The Creature asks for a companion and based on Genesis God grants his wish and they move on, but Shelley on the other hand has his creator deny him of one. This can be interpreted as a shot against the church saying that God doesn’t always answer our wishes. Another way that Shelley is speaking out against the church is that we don’t need religion to make moral decisions. For example at the end Frankenstein and The Creature come to realizations of their wronging without and help from spiritual guidance. Frankenstein thinks that he should have been a better “father” and The Creature forgives Frankenstein for wronging him. Mary Shelley could have used this vehicle to captured people’s attention because at the time religion was huge in people's lives often making decisions for people. This is how Mary Shelley speaks out against the …show more content…
"Frankenstein." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, edited by Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker, vol. 170, Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center, libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=mlin_n_stjohns&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1410001725&it=r&asid=2a9e5aeff0d8b5b311743ddf7f39adce. Accessed 8 Jan. 2017.

This is a basic breakdown of all of the characters, plot, and major themes in the novel. It provides the skeletal structure of the novel presented in a critical way that is easy to digest. I used this is create the argument that the main reason that the creature is the way that he is is because he was abandoned, and Frankenstein doesn’t take responsibility to that until the end.

2. "Critically Examine the Nexus between God-Satan-Adam as It Emerges in Frankenstein."Survivingbaenglish. Wordpress.org, 16 Oct. 2013. Web. 08 Jan. 2017.

This article helps in analyzing the biblical resemblance of both frankenstein and the creature. It does a good job in connecting not only their biblical resemblance but how they were connected in the novel. The way that I used this article was to further the argument that The creature can be seen as Adam to us but Satan to Frankenstein because of his
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