Frankenstein, By Mary Shelley

From the beginning, the creature dealt with isolation from being rejected by his creator. The creature’s first moments of life are looking at Victor being terrified of him and fleeing out of the room, “unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room…”(Shelley 42). From there the creature is left abandoned by its creator, with no knowledge of who he is or where he is. The creature’s isolation begins his path into misery and revenge as he now has to experience the cruelties of humanity alone. However, the creature does find some company by stalking a group of cottagers he finds after being chased out of a village. The creature learns from them the happiness and good from companionship with other. Unfortunately, this knowledge only sends the creature further down the path of misery and revenge due to the cottagers immediate rejection of the creature and he is once again plunged back into isolation. This drives the creature mad and sends him on a rampage, destroying the cottager’s home along with several trees in the forest. The creature then resolves that he is doomed to isolation and that he will have revenge on his creator, Victor Frankenstein, whose caused this to happen. Henceforth, the creature begins to murder everyone who Victor loves and torments him until the creature indirectly kills him by exhausting him to death. As the creature finds Victor’s corpse on Walton’s ship, he laments to

Frankenstein’s creation was lost in the world with no one who could have understood him . It felt sorrowful and unfulfilled emotions as seen in this quote. Betrayal by Victor leaves a large impact the monster carried, which, turned into a monster full of hate and dissatisfaction. Victor’s creation was not a monster , but new born baby in a grown horrific body that was not to be called his own . It becomes a monster both mentally and physically, who will be feared by all . Victor not giving him the love he needed gets the monster enraged, which leads the monster to cause series of events that affects Victor unforgivably. .

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has undoubtedly withstood the test of time. Frankenstein’s direct association with fundamental Gothic literature is extremely renowned. However, the novel’s originality is derived from the foundational thematic values found within the relationship (or lack there of) between Victor Frankenstein and the monster he had created, in combination with a fascinatingly captivating plot. Understandably, Frankenstein can often be associated with a multitude of concepts; however, in this particular instance, the circumstances in the book seemed remarkably coherent with Shelley’s Romantic beliefs in preserving the natural world, and one’s natural existence. These values present themselves as metaphorical symbols that

In the story of “Frankenstein”, Victor Frankenstein creates a creature. When the creature awakens Victor is so disgusted in his creation, he runs away and becomes severely depressed.. The creature searches for Victor, but ends up finding a little boy who turns out to be Victor's little brother, William. The creature kills William, and Victor comes home for the funeral. This is how the creature finds him. While reading the book you notice that all the Creature ever wanted was for Victor to love him. He kind of saw him as a god, and as his creator he must have to love him. The Creature soon realizes that Victor despises him. So he proposes a deal, Victor creates a wife for him and he’ll leave. In the process of creating his wife victor stops, he tears all the pieces apart. The creature slowly ruins Victor's life. When Victor is on his deathbed the Creature comes to him and cries. The Creature ends up killing himself shortly after. Throughout the book we learn to understand why the creature did what he did. He hurt Victor because Victor hurt him. He just wanted to be accepted by Victor, above anything else. We see the story through Victors and The creatures perspectives. Victor hated that he created the creature and he thought that he was his biggest mistake, and the creature just wanted to be

In Frankenstein the creature wanted to be loved by Victor, but his master betrays him and pushed the monster down the path of revenge until he has nothing left. The creature came into the world happy and innocent, but as time went on he realized that humankind and his master had betrayed him. He wanted help people like De Lacy by cutting wood for them and getting food,u but he introduces himself to them, they made it so “[his] heart sunk within me as the with bitter sickness, and I refrained”(97). Human kind and not only his master betrayed him, but this anger manifested as anger towards the Frankenstein family. The creature felt everyone was trying to betray him and go against him so he turned him evil and made the creature want to seek

Once Victor Frankenstein manages to bring to life the horrible creature, however, Frankenstein regrets his action immediately after seeing this hideous and gigantic creature; Victor then becomes frightened and flees to his home. The monster instantly became infuriated at the sight of his creator leaving him, the monster felt abandoned and alone. When Victor returns, he finds the monster has vanished and that the monster murdered his brother. The monster yearns for a female companion to become happy and implores Victor to create another monster to keep him company. Frankenstein agrees to create a female companion and then destroys it instantly with the thought of him creating another monster like the one he had already made. The monster watched Victor create and then destroy his new female companion, which drives the monster to kill the rest of Victor’s close friends and family in an attempt to make Victor to suffer as he does. The monster wants his creator to feel the pain and isolation as the monster has his whole life. The monster continues to search for love and Victor suffers as the result of his immoral actions. Victor Frankenstein returns home to his father after he was rescued at sea, where he shortly after, dies of grief. The creature then realizes that his monstrous ways was not the answer to his pain and suffering, the creature mourns over his creator and then dies as well. Killing the monster is not always the

Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.

While the creature explains to Victor that he is not inherently bad, Victor chooses to see him in a much different light. The creature reveals that before the rejections that created hatred, vengeance and loneliness in him, he was kind and took into consideration his actions and how they affected others. Due to these actions, he believed that his negative emotion arose when his appearance kept him from creating close relationships. Notably, this argument demonstrates that nurture trumps nature and the creature became vengeful due to his treatment by others, originating from Victor's desertion. Victor Frankenstein on the other hand, believed that the creature was born bad and did not develop this behavior. He blames the creation of the creature on the Angel of Destruction, as if the Angel of Destruction planted a seed of evil into the very being of the creature. Thus blaming the actions of the creature on nature rather than nurture. This ideal allows him to dissociate himself from the fact that he created the creature and is responsible for the creature just as a father would be responsible for his child.

I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished,.. breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (35) This emphasizes how Frankenstein was eager to create a new life without considering whether or not he was fully capable of handling the responsibility, which he learns upon finishing his “project” and ends up running away. This is significant because the creature perceives Victor running away as an act of resentment towards his own creation, which creates an impetus for the creature to go into an obsessed state of mind so he can find any way to obtain the feeling of being loved. This obsession is further illustrated when the creature tells his story to Victor saying, “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.” (86) This is the part of the creature’s story where

The Creature challenges Victor that he will take “revenge [of his] injuries; If [he] cannot inspire love,” then he “will cause fear, and chiefly towards [his] arch-enemy,” who is Victor Frankenstein and he also swears an “inextinguishable hatred” for his creator. (Shelley 177). Misery and hatred, caused by repeated rejection turns the Creature from his benevolent state of love to a state of hatred. According to Caldwell, “it is the creature’s ‘father’ himself who is primarily responsible for his life and well-being, and it is his ‘father’ who abandons him.” Victor is the source of his anger, and he only kills the friends and lovers whose deaths will bring Victor the most

During the course of the novel Frankenstein, Victor’s creation is repeatedly broken down and transformed mentally by its innate longing for acceptance in society. The creature was constructed unnaturally, and therefore is unwanted and loathsome in man’s eyes. Even in the creation’s nascent stages, Victor runs from it and deserts his creation. This loneliness at first sparks a desire to be loved, which soon shifts into madness as it becomes clear the desire cannot be filled. The near-insanity of the creature drives a theme of monstrosity throughout the novel, first touching upon the creation’s outward appearance, then on the monster’s all-consuming rage.

The book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley addresses many controversial issues about creation, morality and sciences. However, Victor Frankenstein, whose obsession with playing god and his ambition to be glorified by humanity leads him to use natural powers. Like a mother, he brings a new life into the world, basically making him the father of the creature. However, disgusted and scared, he runs away from his “son”, illustrating the event of when a mother abort her child”. Victor immediately assumes his creature is an evil beast, but it’s the opposite of this idea because his creations is not evil and possess a soul. Although the creature behaves viciously and murders several people, he is not inherently evil or malicious.

An example of this is when the Creature is first introduced to Victor’s younger brother, William, in the fields where the Creature was attempting to seek refuge. The Creature attempts to stop the boy with hopes of befriending him, when instead, the boy screams at the Creature, telling him he was the son of a Frankenstein. This triggers the Creature, recognizing the name an becoming enraged. He proceeds to kill the boy, with hopes “this death will carry despair to [Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him,” (Shelley 155). These emotions internalized in the Creature cause him to commit heinous acts in order to ruin the life of his nemesis. The negativity of the Creature demonstrates an even further rise in his emotions, giving way to a tension between the characters that is furthered as the text proceeds.

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is one revolving around Victor Frankenstein, a young and brilliant scientist with an almost obsessive fascination with the secret of life. Finally, while working alone in his laboratory one night, he creates what he wanted--a living being out of the organs of a dead man. The monstrous creation at first is gentle and loving, but is soon forced to hide away from society due to humankind’s fear of its appearance. The monster is enraged, and seeks to take revenge on its creator, Victor Frankenstein, and does this through the killing of his little brother, best friend, and wife. The monster then heads to the North Pole to seek refuge, where Frankenstein then seeks out the monster to end the life of his creation once and for all. Instead, Victor is fatally wounded by the monster, and the story ends with the monster accusing mankind for its lack of compassion before disappearing into the Arctic Sea. Through a close analysis of the main characters and settings of the story, it can be concluded that Mary Shelley’s novel is, above all, about the theme of alienation and the innocent victims that are affected by it, a theme that is also prominent in Fyodor Doestoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.