frankenstein question?

Question

How do you think the author makes the story scary, what kind of kind of strategies or devices are used by the author to accomplish that?

Answer 1

Boy, it's been a long time since I read it, but one of the things about Frankenstein is that it was scary when it was written more than 100 years ago, and it's still scary today. And I think perhaps for very different reasons.

In those days, science was starting to make great medical advances, and I think it was really scary for the reader then to think that mere humans could take over God's role in creating life. They knew that humans would make mistakes, because they weren't perfect like God.

These days, we've got a slightly different perspective, but a lot of people think science is scary because it not only can "create" life, but it can nurture what may be a horrible mistake. We've seen science goof up badly, so the fallability of science is with us even today. In some ways, Frankenstein is more relavant to us today, what with cloning becoming an almost-viable option. Where are a scientist's ethics? And at what point does is animation considered life? And if life does not have a voice to speak, does that mean it doesn't have feelings or love?

For me, those basic themes are still deep and scary. I can't help you with details though, because I don't really remember them.

Answer 2

In my opinion, the author used many images that, at the time, were considered gruesome, or ungodly.
The idea of creating an artificial person from spare parts is still something that both bothers, and fascinates people. The thought of a "Doctor" taking parts or dead people and fitting them all together with "mechanical" parts, and the detail used could really be unsettling to some people. Also the idea that the "Doctor" is playing "God" by creating this "monster" invites images that only the reader can create in their own head. The images are going to be different from person to person, which is encouraged by the writing style.
The Actions of this "creature" after it is brought to life, I think, is the kind of thing that worries people about cloning. You aren't really sure how the mind/thought process developed, and what the clone is capable of doing.
All in all, it was a great work of fiction for it's time, and still survives to this day as a story that makes people think. The seeds of imagination planted in the way it is written invite the reader to create the "movie" in their head, of what is happening.

Answer 3

Really I'm only 10 and don't know much, but what i would say is that she did a story web and than brain stormed her web and proly just followed the story on where it was going and then went from there. Hope i have helped!!