Ambition in Your Life

What is ambition? Ambition is described as eager for success, power or fame. For Macbeth. Ambition was what drove him to become great, it forced him to change his nature towards evil. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth was portrayed as a courageous soldier who fought for his King without mercy. But once the witches planted the seeds of greater things and Lady Macbeth fuelled his ambition, which lead him to become greedy and power hungry.

“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” – Buddha. Buddha was a wise man and knew that someone who is ambitious can get very impatient when it comes to delaying their plan and having rivals that share the same goals. Ambition is often the result of one good thing happening which leads to one pursuing their dreams more and more. Although ambition can be a good thing, it can also be bad. Twisting people 's judgment on reality and making them perform actions they wouldn 't normally do. Such is the case in Macbeth where ambition causes Macbeth to go through with a murderous plot to become king that involves his wife plotting the murder and going insane. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare expresses the theme of ambition by

Victor knew that what he was doing was hurting his body physically and mentally, “My labors would soon end, and I believe that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease” (Shelley 42) Victor felt this way when he was in the midst of the creation of his monster. Victor knows that his decisions were hindering his body and his ruining his limited time that Victor has on this Earth. The hindering of someone’s body and wasting of time is going to be a direct result of Victor’s demise. The actual creation of the monster also took a toll on Victor; Victor describes the monster by saying “No moral could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch” (Shelley 44) Another example of Victor’s description of the creation of the monster the night before “I trembled exclusively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night” (Shelley 46) Even the next day, after the monster was created, Victor still was hurt by the creation of the monster which then led to Victor being very sick, only to be nursed back to health by Clerval. All of this could have been avoided by Victor if he would have not of created the monster. But because Victor decided to create the monster, the consequences of these actions were the ultimate demise of Victor with the person responsible for the demise being victor

Victor thought “for this I had deprived myself of rest and health. 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”(page). This quote demonstrates that once Victor had concluded his work of creating the monster, he realized that it may have been a huge mistake. He was not satisfied with his creation instead he was filled with terror. In result of his realization, he left the monster to fend for himself and suffer. Victor shows an evil side of himself by abandoning the monster and leaving him to be universally shunned by society. By Victor doing this one evil act, it causes the monster himself to go off and initiate evil acts of his own.

The monster doesn’t deserve to be destroyed because he has done nothing to have to be. Victor created the monster because he couldn’t get past the fact of his belief in him being able to bring life back after its deceased. Once he proved his point, he immediately regretted it. The monster came out weak and child like. He didn’t know how to walk, or talk. He knew as much as a newborn. Once Victor abandoned him, the monster set out on his own and made something of himself. He learned to read on his own, talk on his own, walk on his own, and be kind on his own. Victor abandoning him after being his father type scarred the monster which caused him to lash out and start taking out Victors happiness too by killing his loved ones.

1. Yes, the creature blames Victor for all the actions that he does. As the creator of the creature, the creator owes his creation acceptance and owns up to the responsibilities of the creature. To teach and control one who knows nothing just like how a parent takes responsibility for their child. I think this is evident when “Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind.”(83 )The monster not only blames Victor for all the actions that he has taken, but also has a very valid point. If a man kills someone with a gun, is it the guns fault? The wielder or the one controlling is at fault for his actions. Controlling one's creation at a basic level equivalent to controlling one’s weapon. Actions that occur because of the creator are at the hands of his master.

In Frankenstein victor messes up pretty bad. He created a monster and now has to pay for his choices, he can help the monster find love or he can let his family suffer for his choices. Victor, when faced down to it, he choices to kill the girl monster. I think that victor was wrong for destroying the girl, I feel like he’s obligated or even owes the monster for creating him and then leaving it in the wild.

The monster did not look like everyone else.”It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candles was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”. His essential features were not human like. This made others not like him that well. He was different and as not much has changed people still do not like those who are different. “But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my creature I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimidated that the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations”(166). This shows how much Victor regretted creating his monster. He feared for his family's life, but now he has to face it and face how much he messed

“William, Justine, and Henry-they all died by my hands.” Victor claims that all of this is his fault! If so and Victor is the monster, how then can the creature be so? Victor could have prevented all of the murders in this book! The creature committed all of the murders, could you blame him? Forced from the house of man, the creature takes a path that leads to both Father and son’s demise. Frankenstein would so gladly kill his own creation, why would the creature not be glad to kill Frankenstein’s race? That my friend is because the creature is no monster, but a man forced into the darkness, and became one with it.

Once the monster and Victor start talking, the monster tries to get Victor to understand how he (Victor) is responsible for the monster’s wellbeing by stating, “remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” It is certain that the monster believes that Victor is a bad “parent” to it. Victor never felt like the creature was his responsibility - only an experiment. However, when the creature tells Victor about his responsibilities, Victor despises the creature for what has happened to his

Everyone has a since of ambition built inside of them. Your inner self determines whether you keep it under the surface or let it all come out. In the play Macbeth ambition gets the best of the main character. This is also evident in the novel Frankenstein with its main character. Both of these characters were fallen victims of their own inner ambitious ways. Ambition in both of these books is key to the understanding of each character’s actions.

Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, with determination and hard work. Neither Macbeth nor Frankenstein are monsters, in fact at the start of their stories, both show acts of courage and loyalty, which are later diminished by their wants. These desires, they both obtain leads them to their major downfall. To work hard for something you want is not bad as long as you don’t take things too far. In both Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Marry Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, ambition creates negative consequences.

“[A]void ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.” (Shelley 193). This quote accurately introduces the idea that ambition leads to negative consequences for both Macbeth in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Victor in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. In the two pieces of literature the consequences of severe ambition negatively affects both the protagonists and others. More specifically, Victor and Macbeth’s rash ambitions cause mental illnesses for themselves and persistent hardships for those around them.

Griffith further supports the idea of Victor being the problem and his ignorance becoming increasingly detrimental to his family’s health. Victor’s actions inevitabely brings death and pain to his family although the monster is responsible. Victor is the real monster for creating the monster and negleting his very own creation. Also, after creating the being, he neglects its needs and wants and runs away from his responsibility as the creator. This quote from Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, shows that Victor, being too binded in his ambitions, did not think through the process of creating a human and rushed it creating a bitter and crushed soul:

Victor is given the knowledge of creating the monster, yet he doesn’t use that knowledge to think about the consequences of what he’s making. He only contemplates whether he should make something simple or advanced. He doesn’t contemplate not making it because he’s already made up his mind to make the monster. Victor would have done well to heed Kass’s warning: “Repugnance… revolts against the excesses of human willfulness, warning us not to transgress what is unspeakably profound” (Kass 20). Even if people have “good” ideas, they are really bad ideas, and Victor should have stuck to his “gut feeling” that was telling him it wasn’t morally right. Victor realizes his mistake after it’s too late. After his cousin, Justine, is murdered by the monster, Victor feels like it’s his fault because he created the monster. He expresses regret at creating the monster when he says, “Remorse extinguished every hope. I had been the author of unalterable evils, and I had lived in daily fear” (Sheley 95). Looking back on what he created, feeling sorry for himself, sorrow and fear are the only things on Victor’s mind. Victor can’t change the fact that he created something evil. He knows deep inside he shouldn’t have created the monster, but now it’s too late to do anything about it, and he lives in despair and fear. Victor has a burden of