Analysis of Narrative Structure of Frankenstein 1818 version - Book Report/Review Example

As Victor describes his childhood, “No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself” (Shelley 37). Especially because he had the best friends and loving parents around him, Victor had the best childhood ever. Since he discovered the alchemists and their reasoning about the world, victor started studying about their reasoning about the world and the universe. This interest led him to begin enthusiastic reading books by scientists such as Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus.

However, Victor’s encounter with the professor of natural philosophy, M. Krempe who tells him that his research on the natural scientists was a waste of time, made him change his mind. As Krempe advised him, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost (Shelly 45).” Krempe discouraged the excited Victor, asking him to consider modern science rather than wasting his time studying unreasonable and unreasonable thinkers. When the professor succeeds in convincing Victor to study natural sciences, an agitated and disappointed Victor dedicates most of his time researching.

During these studies, Victor came up with the idea of creating a race that would regard him as their creator. After years of loneliness and seclusion, Victor succeeds in creating a human being. However, the day the creature opened its eyes, its nature not only shocked Victor, but also haunted the maker in his dreams. As Shelly describes the creature, “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing” (56). Further, “his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips” (Shelly 56).

Victor started having nightmares about the creature. Running away from the