Something for Everybody: Brooks’ Reasoning for Monsterism in Frankenste

Like all in all works that have been taught in English classes, Frankenstein has been explicated and analyzed by students and teachers like for much of the twentieth and all of the twenty-first century. Academia is correct for doing so because Frankenstein can appeal to the interests of students. Students, teachers and experts in the areas of medicine, psychology, and sociology can relevantly analyze Frankenstein in their respective fields. However, Peter Brooks explains in Godlike Science/ desecrate Arts Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein that Shelly had presented the problem of Monsterism through her words. check to Brooks, Monsterism is explicitly and implicitly addressed in Shellys run-in. While this whitethorn be correct, Brooks does it in such a way that requires ample fuckledge of subjects that some(prenominal) readers may not be knowledgeable in. later on summarizing and analyzing the positive and negative qualities of Brooks work, I will explain how the connec tedness of many different fields of study in literature creates a better work. Brooks attempts to prove his thesis by first explaining how the language in parts of the book relates to how the Creature is monstrous. He alludes to how the descriptions of nature in Frankenstein are more fearful when the Creature is around. For instance, a terrible drive occurs during the Creatures creation and the cold gales in the icy glaciers of Mont Blanc frame in Frankenstein when he meets the Creature for the first time after its creation (Shelly 80). overly commenting on the Creatures story, Brooks finds that his lack of spoken language and attempt to understand these languages allude to the Enlightenments noble ferocious (594). Brooks then associates the Creature with Satan and many top... ...ttempts to relate many fields to his paper so that even if the reader didnt know some of the scholars that were cited, the reader could glean the basic idea and then rightfully understand a section th at interested you if you knew about the sources he was using. kit and boodle CitedBrooks, Peter. Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts Language and Monstrosity in Frankenstein. New Literary History 9.3 (1978) 591-605. JSTOR. Web. 15 Oct. 2010. .Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Walter James Miller, and Harold Bloom. Frankenstein, Or, The modern Prometheus. New York New American Library, 2000. Print.Yale Office of Public Affairs. Humanities and neighborly Sciences. Yale Professor Peter Brooks Wins Prestigious Mellon Award. Yale University News. Yale University, 16 Jan. 2008. Web. 21 Oct. 2010. .