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Foreshadowing In Frankenstein

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In todays world, humans are constantly striving to find the “next big thing”, which is what we should work for, right? In Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor attempts to achieve the next step in his scientific progression, which is creating life from the dead. Dr. Frankenstein eventually comes up with a “Zombie”, if you will, that can think and act for itself. Does he finally achieve his potential or kill himself in the process? The book first starts off with Walton, a ship captain, finding Victor in the far North Pole on a sled. Victor boards the ship and meets Walton, where they discuss words and eventually become friends. Victor ask Walton what he is searching for. Walton tells him knowledge and some other things and Victor responds with, “You seek knowledge and wisdom… I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine have been” (Shelley 15). This is a foreshadowing of what is to come in the story, and Victor has realized that he has messed up on an apocalyptic level. …show more content…

For the moment that is anyways, when it finally hits him, he does not know what to think at all. While discussing his discovery, Frankenstein states, “Life and death appeared to be ideal bounds, which I should first break through and pour a torrent of light into our dark world” (Shelley 40). Being a scientist, there a boundaries you should stay in and procreation should be number 1. Victor saw otherwise and sees death as an okay topic to alter. He figured, why not do the impossible, why not bring life to the nonliving. He describe life as light in this statement and wants to show the world what is

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