Consequences Of Death In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '

B. Background about text (names, plot points, ideas that are essential to following essay): Throughout the course of this gothic novel, readers are transported into the world of a brilliant but unfortunate scientist named Victor —who passionately undertakes the gruesome task of creating life. However, when he loses control of the abomination that sprung from his experiment, he pays the price for his for his crime against nature in the form of the deaths of those whom he loves—either directly or indirectly.

As Victor continues his studies, he finally feels like he has acquired everything there is to know about the body. He then dangerously seeks the deep dark and underlying secrets to life. Victor wanting to make a difference in the world says, “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation” (Ch. 3). Vowing to this statement, Victor envisions creating a race with superior beings. He confines himself in his apartment and begins to passionately work on his creation. “Cloistered in scholarly pursuit, Victor goes into hiding in his study and fully loses touch with the primacy of physicality”

Victor obsession with his creation represents the dark side of ambition. By creating the monster, “darkness” follow him wherever he goes through the representation of deaths and daunting weather like lightning. After his release from prison, he saw around him “nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me” (Shelley 160). By trying to turn himself into a god through the creation of the monster, that is, the unnatural, Victor is deprived of joy and is tormented by fevers, anxiety, and stress because he had thrown nature into the state of imbalance. Rather than feeling a sense of accomplishment through his scientific achievement, he lives in fear and guilt knowing that he is the cause for the destruction of his

It is this need for control of life that in turn leads to Victor’s illness and to his downfall which emphasises how humanity’s connection with the natural world is an extricable relationship that should be never be severed. Through the personification of nature,

Victor describes a “sudden” light that breaks upon him in the “midst of darkness,” expecting that his creation will be an event that would advance the studies (47). However, His creation does not mirror the exquisiteness of his family and his childhood, and he is unable to accept the blame for his irreversible mistakes, but it was “fate-- that enounced to destroy” him” (46). Victor is entirely convinced that fate is the reason for his misery and destruction following the creation of the monster, which is because he is appalled that his experiment took a turn for the worst. On the complete flipside, the monster has an immoral upbringing, coming to life and being brought into the world suddenly, in Victor’s apartment. He finds himself “so desolate, ” and darkness had “troubled him, while he was “oppressed by cold” (85).

Throughout the novel, the creation begins to slowly murder the people closest to Victor until he is left in solitude as he is forced to bear the burden of this knowledge of the murderer in addition to his own accountability of the deaths since he is responsible for the creation.

Victor Frankenstein’s silence was responsible for the death of William, as well as the execution of Justine, the girl who was pinned for the murder that the monster committed. These deaths could have been easily prevented if Victor had taken authority and owned up to his horrendous mistake that went rampant. Initially, he should have not lost sight of the beast and fled from his apartment. This careless act left the monster with a sense of abandonment, which deeply affected it, thus causing it to lash out at innocent people. Victor could have also prevented Justine’s killing by stating that he witnessed the monster roaming the outskirts of town, and letting go of the possibility that he could be charged.

It is here where Victor’s main character flaw reveals itself: irresponsibility. He abandons a being which he brought into this world, and then consequently ignores this problem until it spirals out of control. Victor sought only to create life, but had no wish to safeguard or care for the life he did create. Undeniably, most of the problems and conflict in this novel stem from Victor’s irresponsibility and unwillingness to act, and it is his own fault his loved ones died. Shelly always intended for him to be an irresponsible character, as shown in her journals “He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark which he had communicated would fade; that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter”

One’s nature has always influenced his or her actions. Everyone has his or her unique attitude but there are different attributes that make up one’s attitude. Arrogance, overconfidence, greed, selfishness, selflessness, benevolence, and fear are among these attributes. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley empowers her characters with these attributes. In the gothic novel Frankenstein, the character Victor creates a creature in order to fulfill his ambitions. This creature is abandoned by Victor, which causes the creature to be overwhelmed with loneliness. Everyone judges the creature by his appearance and this causes the creature to disdain his master. The creature murders Victor’s family and later both of them duel each other in order

Imagine being stranded, all alone and no sense of love. All he carries is despair and a feeling of disgust for himself. No one will accept him for his true self, not even his creator. How can this not result in a monster? This creature has absolutely no guidance, no idea of the consequences. This abandonment is the drop in the water that creates the ripple effect of his downfall. Emotions control him and submerge him with his own findings. Mentally, the creature grows and does not have someone to show him the right and wrong road, so he knows no different. But what is the cause that is to blame for this monstrous creature? Is his abandonment the cause of his destruction? Mary Shelley’s work, Frankenstein, explores the idea that being a social outcast with no sense of belonging follows an individual throughout their life. It continually shapes a person and plays a significant part on the individual's actions in the future.

Victor is driven by his desire to create a creature from lifeless matter, that he goes ahead to do so without analyzing the consequences it will have upon him and the people he loves. His emotional desire to build a name for himself leads to the creation of his own destruction. The monster on the other hand is guided by his emotions to revenge the unfair way his creator Victor and society has treated him to commit the murders (Levine, 31). The monster is reacting on the way humans have alienated him despite his countless attempts towards companionship. Therefore, he justifies his violent actions with the continual torment he receives from society around him.

Till Death Do Us Part Not many people believe good can come out of something so tragic such as death. Death has the ability to control a person’s life, such as Victor Frankenstein. In Mary Shelley’s horror novel Frankenstein, death plays a huge role throughout the story. Throughout Frankenstein, death brings people together, causes pain, and can be corruptive. In Frankenstein death brings many characters together.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible feeling in the world, imagine not having anyone one to turn to, that no one understands you. This is exactly the way Frankenstein’s creature felt, his appearance frightened everyone around him his own creator abandoned him. It was not the monsters’ choice to be created and he faces the consequences of the creator. Frankenstein should create a companion for the creature because it is in need of love, affection and a friend.

However, Victor is part of the problem throughout the novel, as his defiance of natural process exemplifies the need for humanity to control nature, through modification, identification, and oppression. Victor initially is inspired to create due to his unchecked foray into the sciences, to explore where "the principle of life proceed[ed]" (Shelley 31), and defy the natural courses of life and death. Victor's result, in that his creation subverts both humanity and nature through its actions, serves to illuminate the potential danger in attempting to control or modify nature for

Power means everything to an individual, but too much becomes an issue. Victor is a scientist, which every person can understand, scientist wish to be known. Playing God sounded ideal to Victor, and took the challenge upon himself to succeed in doing so. Victor took God’s creation, and manipulated the parts to create his own kind. Victor carelessly gathered dead body parts, and fooled around with life in order to get what he wanted. Victor abused God’s gifts to mankind to accomplish what no one else has. With great power like this, comes outrageous responsibility.