em into her novel. Mellor discovered that the day and date on which Walton first sees the creature, Monday, 31 July, had coincided in 1797, the year in which Mary Shelley was born. This fact and other internal evidence led Mellor to conclude that the novel ends on 12 September 1797, two days after Mary Wollstonecrafts death. (Ty 19) Mary consequently merged the beginning and ending of her life with the books beginning and end, just as she combined many morals of her time period with the same morals that one may relate to today.Because Mary did such a terrific job thinking up the saga of the hideous creature and relating it somehow to life during this romantic time period, many readers find it easy to relate the morals of the story to their own personal lives. Everyday, readers learn the moral lesson that is it important to look within and see a person for who they are and not for what they look like. One major theme of Frankenstein is the thought that beauty lies within. Dr. Frankenstein believes that if he pieces together beautiful body parts from different corpses, he will end up with a beautiful body. His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful (Shelley 60). This, however, is not the case. The monster ends up being a hideous creature that the doctor cannot even bear to look at. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep (61). Dr. Frankenstein does not give the monster a chance. He does not know what this beast is like on the inside. The monster could have a heart of gold, but that is not important to the doctor. What is important is that he escapes from this hideous looking individual. The e...
