Book-Report: Frankenstein [Dartmouth]

A Story by Abishai100

An actual book-report of the iconic Mary Shelley work, which highlights what 'typifies' the quality of experimental diary-friendly creative-writing/novels.

Retiring with this 'book-report' of Frankenstein (Mary Shelley). Hope you like,

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I'm making a book-report for Mary Shelley's iconic work for Dartmouth. I've considered myself a great fan of female writers, including Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Mary Shelley, and Agatha Christie. However, Frankenstein is the book-report I'm selecting, since it's an iconic work which I remember greatly and can cast in an 'outstanding' form of literary appreciation diary-erection for the purposes of literary exposition --- a great way to retire from short-story writing, which I've been doing now for...6 years!

Frankenstein (1818) changed the way we looked at how female writers explored the written word/story, and it's fragmented in format, and the protagonist is a spiritually-tortured male, Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The story is presented in diary-within-diary like frameworks, with an explorer first recounting his first-encounter with the tortured Victor who starts telling him of his pursuit/evasion of his 'nature-monster' whom he 'created' by resurrecting a corpse with electric-energy as a medical 'wonder' experiment, only to regret it sheer scope of darkness and deformity! The narrative-account of the tortured doctor then delves into his young life and marriage and his obsession with his 'science-experiment' of his monster and how it led to his complete ruin and the unnatural demise of his beloved wife. This work has been translated into many media, including iconic works of cinema/cartoons/comics/toys. It remains a pronounced if not the most pronounced work of literature crafted by a female writer, Mary Shelley.

I'm erecting this Shelley book-report for a lovely literary-agent who's working on making me rich-and-famous. Nah, not true, but I love the modern media-landscape and how agents and educators and stimulators/inspirers have modern media/cyber resources to promote the circulation of shared works of creative writing and arts. I like to think that this cyber-report of the iconic and legendary Shelley work will reflect why literature and the history of literature, especially works written by women, can cast a long shadow over the conscious imaginative idea of what comprises the 'natural contours' of faerie-tales of discovery, celebrity, ingenuity, praise, and of course, magazine/media-drawing(s).

The end of the Shelley work is as tragic as the opening is eerie/haunting, which has made the iconic work of the 'science-abomination' a natural 'faerie-tale' (dark!) of the omens surrounding experimental science(s) and the marketing of the iconic monster as a very popular 'celebrity' Halloween-time 'avatar' for kids to hybridize with other iconic literary 'avatars' like Carroll's Alice (Wonderland), Stevenson's Long John Silver (Treasure Island), and Melville's Bartleby (Bartleby, the Scrivener). In fact, Frankenstein is a constant 'haunting' reminder of what divides the lines between science, art, and madness!