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This 5 page paper discusses the types of obsession portrayed in “Frankenstein,” including the obsession of Frankenstein for his experiments in creation; his subsequent obsession with fleeing from the creature; and the creature’s obsession with revenge. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the book. Discussion In the book, we can argue that Frankensteins attempt to create life is an obsession because its not something that is approved within the constraints of his
society. In fact, he can be seen as subsuming Gods position as the creator of life. Today, of course, we are becoming used to science pushing back the frontiers of
knowledge to include such things as human cloning. While there is a great deal of opposition and uneasiness associated with it, it can at least be discussed, and is not
automatically disregarded as something completely outrageous or unnatural. But in Shelleys day, Frankensteins work would have been considered reprehensible and blasphemous; he is obsessed with it. Frankenstein reveals that he
has always been an obsessive personality when he says that his passions are "vehement," and that he had an "eager desire to learn" (Shelley 49). He wasnt interested in languages,
government or politics, he wanted to learn the "secrets of heaven and earth," and directed his inquiries "to the metaphysical" (Shelley 49). His life takes its fatal turn when he
comes across a volume by Cornelius Agrippa and begins to read it (Shelley). He becomes excited by the mans theories and approaches his father, who dismisses them as "trash" with
no further explanation (Shelley 51). Frankenstein says that if his father had bothered to explain that Agrippas theories had been overturned because science had proven them wrong, it would have
been different, but as it was, it seemed that his father simply threw the book aside without really trying to understand it (Shelley). Frankenstein was thus far more interested in
it than he would otherwise have been; in other words, he has a typical young persons reaction to a parents comments: he does just the opposite. And he soon becomes
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