Outline

Outline
I. Thesis: The creation and consequence of a monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrates the creation and consequence of the Industrial Revolution.
II. In Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein, it talks about a scientist who earns to create life through technology.
a. Victor Frankenstein dreams of banishing disease from humans and invulnerability to a violent death. (Shelley 34).
b. Victor creates a wretched creature on the night of November and the creature leaves the area (Shelley 55).
c. Victor returns home to Geneva to find his little brother murdered by the Frankenstein monster (Shelley 80-81)
d. Victor learns of the monsters lust for another, to love and be with (Shelley 177).
e. Victor learns how creating a bride for the monster would create another consequence so he destroys his work (Shelley 205).
f. The monster is aggravated and kills Victor’s wife (Shelley 241).
g. Victor is furious and begins a long pursuit to destroy his creation (Shelley 251)
h. Victor shares his remaining pieces of his story before he dies, the monster then weeps for his creator (Shelley 269-275)
III. The Industrial Revolution brought many positive effects such as an increase of production by factories but a consequence that followed was child labor.
a. Young child laborers working age 5-15
b. Children on the streets and orphanages
c. Abuse and working conditions of the factories
IV. As well as we had gained transportation such as cars and trains we have also distributed smog and pollution.
a. Cars produce smog and pollute the world
b. Factories provide pollution and increased smog
c. Death to the environment near factories
V. As technology grew people would migrate to certain cities and they would become over populated and creating urbanization.
a. Migration of people to one city
b. Over populated city
c. Problems due to urbanization
d. Life expectancy drop
VI. Conclusion: Although we have gained much from the Industrial Revolution our creations come with long term consequences.