Death In Frankenstein Research Paper

Nonetheless, when the unnatural desires fail it results in a state of remorse. Victor admits this when after William and Justine’s death. “Should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them at these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness. But that could not be. Remorse extinguished every hope” (87). Victor expected that when he was creating life he was doing a service to his the world and academia, he instead unleashed a monster. His experiment failed and had killed his brother which caused his sister to be executed. He admits that because of this failure had stripped his away his peace

does not realize the Monster’s motives: to kill Victor’s loved ones and to obtain ultimate power.

Victor tells the reader, “I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures.” (NEED CITATION) Because of this overpowering guilt and depression, Victor even contemplates suicide; saying, “I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever.” (81). But throughout all of his suffering, Victor found hope and love in Elizabeth. In one of the letters he wrote to her, he proclaims, “I fear, my beloved girl, little happiness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is centered in you.” (168). In this statement of love, Victor summarizes what he has to live for. His happiness does not remain in science, friendships, or family; but resides in his future with Elizabeth. He later talks about the last moments of his life during which he enjoyed the genuine feeling of happiness, his wedding. While alive, Elizabeth had been his greatest lover, encouraging him through all of his darkest valleys. And even in her passing, the vengeance of her death consumes Victor’s mind, dedicating his life to kill the horrific Monster which he had created.

As Victors brother was killed by the creature he created, the remourse victor and his father have towards his death show weakness. Men in society are conditioned to be brought up as brave and protective. While Victors father is letting the death of

Victor stops to rest in Paris while traveling to Geneva. He receives a letter from Elizabeth, and she asks whether his suffering and his unhappiness is related to their impending marriage. She says if he is in love with someone else, she is willing to leave him go. This reminds Victor of the creature’s threat to be with

Victor, after being convinced to create a female companion for the monster, realizes that this will only create double the amount of destruction, he then makes the choice to discontinue his project to prevent more devastation. Instead of less damage resulting from this choice it only brings more harm to his life and everyone around him. First, his good friend Henry Clerval is murdered by the beast and Victor is accused of this murder, “The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.” (Shelley 129). This was Victor’s reaction upon seeing Henry’s corpse and demonstrates how deeply his pursuit for knowledge affects him. Even though he is later released on circumstantial evidence, he will be scarred for life knowing that he responsible for yet another death. Given that Victor destroyed the monster’s only hope of having someone else like him in the world; the monster swears revenge and that he will return on Victor’s wedding night. Victor misinterpreted this warning and instead of the monster attacking Victor, his creation attacked and

The author’s tone about Victor can be seen in a negative way as he is alone. “I was a poor, helpless wretch: I knew, and could distinguish, nothing” (Shelly 90) Victor is upset with this past creation and thinks he is running out of ideas, he understands his helplessness and he is very unsure about how to deal with it at this point in time, moreover it seems as if he can’t distinguish reality from a sort of fantasy in his mind. Shelly almost seems to make him appear insane, he can’t confide in anybody about his creation, he must just sit and cry in pain thinking about the evil that he has caused, how could that not drive a man insane during a period like

Quote #3: “my ravings, as I afterwards heard, were frightful; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval” (Shelley 187).

Elizabeth’s mother dies during childbirth. The family is already struggling financially and emotionally, “He

After his mother dies, Victor describes the evilness of death and how at first, it is difficult for people to comprehend how they will never see their deceased love ones again. He then says that it is only after a few days for people to actually experience grief, but that he doesn’t need to describe those horrible feelings because everyone has felt those emotions of sadness and loss at some point in their life. Finally, he says that after some time people must move on with their lives and attend to their own duties, and then moves on with his story about his attendance at Ingolstadt. From his brief telling of his mother’s death and quick transition to his studies, it is demonstrated how Victor may have neglected his grief about his mother’s

He states, "I shunned the face of man. . . . solitude was my only consolation--deep, dark, deathlike solitude.” When the monster kills Elizabeth, Victor becomes more like his creation and becomes vengeful. As he visits his father's, brother's, and wife's graves, he promises, "For this purpose will I preserve my life: to execute the dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth (Chapter 24, page

He obsesses over his research until he appears to be a living corpse, just as the ones he studies as he builds the body of the creature. The second time he returns to the task of building a body, Victor admits that “[his] heart often sickened at the work of [his] hands” (143). Shelley is pointing out the immoral actions of Victor through his heartache, because “the heart is also, and has been since ancient times, the symbolic repository of emotion” (Foster). Victor feels guilt, disgust towards both the creature and himself, and remorse for what he has done; he is depressed because he believes that he does not deserve to be happy. His psyche is in torment, and this affliction only progresses until Shelley reveals to the reader

for the murder of his best friend Henry Clerval. The actual cause of his death was because the monster murdered him and left his dead body where Victor had just arrived. After being imprisoned, he travels home to his father.

I felt frustrated. I felt distraught. It was as if my eyes had been opened, as if a bubble of naiveté that had protected me from the world had just suddenly popped. I was overwhelmed with the sentiments of having just eaten the forbidden

'When I finally understood I had the nine-tails demon inside me, the villagers seemed even more hateful than ever. It was so...painful, it created a void.'