Frankenstein Speech Outline :: Mary Shelley Shelly

Frankenstein Speech Outline Introduction What happens when you abandon somebody that you use to care for so dearly? Are they mad and want revenge because of this or do they keep on living their life? In the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts, to his sister back in England the progress of his dangerous mission. Successful early on, the mission is soon interrupted by seas full of impassable ice. Trapped, Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling by dog-drawn sledge across the ice and is weakened by the cold. Walton takes him aboard ship, helps nurse him back to health, and hears the fantastic tale of the monster that Frankenstein created and abandon. The monster in Frankenstein goes through a lot of phases and changes and has traits such as being confused, sad, evil, good, and depressed. In the story Frankenstein, it suggests that people must take responsibility for what they do. (First, let’s talk about the very beginning of the monster’s life) Body I. Monster’s misunderstood by everybody. He doesn’t understand why people didn’t like him at first, until later on in his wandering. Making him confused and depressed all of the time because of this reason. A. People run away in fear of him, or try to kill him to get rid of him. Even his creator abandoned him. Everybody won’t give him chance to be understood, he is a mystery to everybody, representing the question marks going down the face for his confusion. 1. I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. (115) This line evokes the motif of abortion: the monster is an unwanted life, a creation abandoned and shunned by his creator. 2. The monster Frankenstein travels alone by himself a lot so no one hurting or screaming at him since he is the eight-foot-tall, hideously ugly creation that everybody runs in fear of. The monster clearly understands later on in the story his position in the world, the tragedy of his existence and abandonment by his creator. 2 3. The monster assists a group of poor peasants and saves a girl from drowning, but because of his outward appearance, he is rewarded only with beatings and disgust. Making him having to fight back and run away. B. Wants to be loved and taken care of, he also wanted to know his purpose in life and why was he created.