Questions For Exam

What is a monster?


A monster is shown in great detail in both books. From a monster that is created by a human being to a monster being created by spirits and thoughts. This is shown in both books when Victor von Frankenstein has made a creation from his own hands and when the witches start to tell Macbeth that he will become king and what not. A monster is someone who is mentally and physically different from what we would consider and normal human being. If you were to "Google" what a monster was you would get a noun for something that is an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening. This is what most humans believe a monster is, but really in Frankenstein and Macbeth this is not true. Macbeth is mentally triggered to becoming a monster because the witches are changing his real thoughts to what they believe is true. Macbeth mentally deteriorates and becomes a totally different person after listening to the witches multiple times. Victor has created an actual monster to definition, but this monster that he has created is mentally ill too. He figures out that he does have feeling and wants to be able to love somebody, so he starts killing people to show and tell Victor that he is trying to be known and is trying to find true love. 




Why and when do Macbeth and Victor become uncontrollable in their actions?


In the paly Macbeth, Macbeth's mind has vitrually been taken by the witches. He is persuaded to kill the king and in that process he is told that he will become king. The witches are putting this certain image into his mind and that makes him pretty well go insane. His state of mind has changed dirastically and he is now almost ill because of it. In Victors case he did this to himself. In the building of the creation, he thinks everything is going to go over well, but he starts to regret making this creation. He is obviously mentally ill because he is digging up dead remains from a grave site to make this particual creation. When the monster becomes alive, it starts going pretty well uncontrollable and Victor goes insane. His mental state is ill as well and he is unwilling to be apart of his family because he is too overwelmed at his descion of making this monster. Victor cannot regret enough of making this monster because it is killing all of his family member and close friends. Victor then goes on to misleading the monster on his wedding night. He thinks that the monster is going to kill him but the monster is set to kill his wife, Elizabeth. He is then tremendously uncontrollably upset and is set to find the monster. The monster ends up killing Victor on his ventures.


Why do you think Victor created the monster? Explain why and the factors that influenced him.


I believe that Victor created the monster to feel power in some sense and I believe that Victor wanted to create the monster because the challenge was at hand and he wanted to see if he could accomplish it. This makes Victor strive more to make the monster become and to feel this power. Creating this monster is a big task and will take a lot of time, strengeth, patients, and thought. Victor was an intellegent man and I beleive that he knew that he could do it. This brings me to think that Victor wanted to be like God and have some aspects like God. God has a lot of power and that is something that Victor wanted to feel. Victor most likely wanted to have the same power as God because he would be able to bring "body parts" to life and make it a creature that lives.

What is th signifigance of Lady Macbeth's unsex me scene?

I believe that Lady Macbeth wanted to be the one in power and not her husband. This may show that she is selfish in a way because she is the one wanting the attention. This also shows that she feels that women don't have a lot of power in the world. Back in her time, women really didn't have much power because the king must be a male (and it still is today) and the lady was to be the queen. I understand that this is still a major factor in soceity today, but that still doesn't mean that she could go and try to become something else to feel like she has power. She is wanting to become fully a man, and not endure the female body parts in her life. She wants all of those parts taken away and wants to be masculan so she can have the power of a man.

What are the similarities and differences in Macbeth and Victor? List 8 different similarities and differences in them.

Victor and Macbeth are similar and different in many ways. When brainstorming ideas, i could find more similarities than differences. Macbeth and Victor both go crazy and are mentally ill because of their descions and what people had been telling them. They both have a vision in their minds and are set to that goal that they have in their mind and strive to accomplish it. Macbeth and Victor both had lovers in their lives and that was also a problem and conflict in the story because in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth wants to be the man so she can have more power over Macbeth and become king. Where in Frankenstein, Victor misreads the monster and thinks that he is set to kill Victor so Victor goes away from Elizabeth to keep her safe, but little did he know, the monster was out to kill Elizabeth. In both stories, the objective is to kill someone or something to obtain power or get rid of a bad thing like when Macbeth needs to kill the king to obtain power, or when Victor has to kill the monster to get him out of his life and to stop him from killing his family. Some differences that i found in Macbeth and Victor was that Victor has to create a monster to feel power and Macbeth has to kill the king to obtain power.

(Rough Brainstorm)
similar
-both go crazy
-both have a vision set in their mind
-both have a goal that they believe they can achieve
-both have lovers
-both have to kill someone or something to obtain power or get rid of the bad things
-both mentally ill

differences
-victor creates a monster and macbeth is the monster
-victor is looking at a creation when macbeth is looking at a death to become powerous