Frankenstein, By Mary Shelley

In fact, the way they had felt about each other in the end showed a distinction between the two. Even though Victor did not care for the monster, the creature still glorified and talked highly about him. However, Victor blamed everything on the monster and retains the hatred he has towards him. As Victor reflects on the past, he is filled with guilt. When stating how he felt about the monster, he said, “He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness, in evil: he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end. Miserable himself, that he may render no other wretched he ought to die.” In comparison, the creature described his creator as superior. The monster specifically said, “I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that of irremediable ruin.” These quotes emphasize the stark difference between how they feel about one another. Victor should have taken into consideration that the monster was like this because he had experienced abandonment in a world he had not known. But, the disdain is understandable since the monster had murdered his relatives. The monster’s words seem surprising because if he thought his creator was worthy of love, why try and get revenge? Secondly, they both had different views of how they

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

The monster asserts,” It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation… I sickened as I read. ‘Hateful day when I received life!’... ‘Accused creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” (Shelley 134). The monster discovers Victor’s hatred towards him, sending him into a revengeful attitude. The monster’s first experience of love comes from Victor creating him; although now that it is gone, the monster obtains no concept of love. His absence of love adds to his unethical and lethal terror on Victor and his family. Kim A. Woodbridge writes, “Even though the creature received a moral and intellectual education, the lack of nurturing and loving parent as well as companionship and acceptance from society led him to reject morality and instead destroy”. Victor’s gluttony causes the monster’s immoral turn to violence. Representing another deadly sin, Victor only provides for himself and puts his interest and well-being before the monster’s. In doing this, Victor not only angers the monster, but compels the monster to feel unloveable. The one person the monster wants love from the most deserts him, creating a destructive animal, ready to

The monster, pretty much like his creator has a desire to gain knowledge and intelligent and to be smart like victor. Greatest example to me is when he begins to learn and self-teach himself to understand the ways of the humans. The monster again gains such valuable information when the monster himself observes and studies their way of speech and in return of doing the studies he learns English, not just words or a sentence or two he learns is fluently. So in a meeting with Victor he goes into state that he himself did the studying and learned how to do all kinds of different things for example opening doors and walk properly and to overcome thirst and hunger and to even blink his

Victor’s ambition drives him to create the being, but as soon as he gives life to it, he never stops

The expectation of the monster that his desires would be filled by his creator is also not met, leading him to become angry like Victor, and violent. The monster had desires similar to Victor’s like he also wanted a mate, like Elizabeth and a good reputation, good enough that people would not be afraid of him but knowledge of how to interact with humanity, and he desired company. But when he is repeatedly rejected, by both strangers and his own creator it is understandable that his response is a desire for revenge, he concludes “this was the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and, as recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound, which shattered the flesh and bone’’ (Shelley 96). Through their desires and ambitions not being met, both Victor and his creature became lonely and angry, and wanting only of the other for the part they had played in destroying one’s life.

The idea of pursuing knowledge clouded Victor’s mind and when his creature is born he is shocked to discover that what he has created is far off his own expectations. Not only did the monster crush his expectations of developing a creature that went beyond human knowledge, but it also affected his life, dignity, and fears. Victor himself admits to his own mistake when he says, “The different accidents of life

Shelley), the monster relates himself to both Adam, a creation of God, and Satan, a rebellion of God: like Adam, he seeks his creator's approval and care, even though he’s been discarded, and like Satan, who loathes God for being cast away, he not only begins to loathe Victor, but everyone around him who rejects him as victor does. The monster believed that Victor would accept him, but after he realized that not only did Victor not want to assume his position in the monster’s life, but society also rejected him, it became a transitory thought, and instead became replaced with his bloodthirst towards Victor and his loved ones, which he knew would hurt way worse than just killing him; making him lonely like himself. Both Victor and the monster partook in horrid acts, in which held horrendous actions; the main one being Victor creating the monster in the first place which in result caused the both of them heartbreak, loneliness, and pain. If Victor wouldn’t have created the monster, then his life would not be filled with so much grief and emptiness; Victor is the true monster, although they are both the primal protagonists as much as they are the antagonists because of the display of the emotions they both portray as lamenting humans/monsters, and the power they give to nature in order to destroy one another. Victor used nature to his advantage, although it was wrong; Victor used nature to create and destroy

Victor had brought him life but did not make it, so the monster could have a real life. The monster is simply a toy to suit the god complex Victor desires to uphold, and this exposes the true beating heart of a cruel beast. Allowing room for the destruction of another living being is not something a person with proper morals would do. Victor has shaped his creature into sometime impossible to blend into society, thus thrusting the hatred of existence into the monster. When the creature finds the notes about how he was made in the pocket of his robes, he screams, “-to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced [me]” (Shelly 132).

When I looked at the way he is raised I conclude that he was respected and cared for, for his parents encouraged his education. Also, his mother and father show compassion and love when they take in Elizabeth, a poor italian girl, to give her a better life. In Victor’s case, his nurture encouraged traits of devotion and pride; consequently, adding to his power hungry nature that eventually works against

The novel denounces and attacks, somehow, the hubris of the creator of the beast who turns into monster himself, becoming a victim of his own creation. His desire to go beyond the human restrictions through his skills as scientist, let him generate a monster which is considered repugnant even from Victor, its creator. The creature, whose soul is (originally) good, is innocent and sensitive to the beauty of nature and is forced to run away into the woods, where he learns to survive, but also to read and write. Although the monster starts assuming human behavior, he feels rejected by society, because of its monstrosity (the author emphasizes the theme of appearance) and he goes to his creator, asking for a mate, to escape loneliness. Victor refuses to make the same mistake for the second time and the monster turns into a cruel

for resurrection, Many beliefs decree that the administration of creation is reserved only for divine beings, however, Victor breaks this unspoken law. Victor’s pursuit of an experiment that would allow him to bring life to lifeless things is his first and most desperate attempt to play the role of God Victor wanted to create a new species for the betterment of humankind. Once he completed his experiment, even he, along with the rest of human society, view his creation as an inhuman morbidity, which he did not intend it to be.

The monster and Victor are two different and matching outlooks of a person’s personality. They are different people, but their relationship causes them to intertwine their paths. Frankenstein’s monster is his confidant, the effect of his interference with science and his attempt to go against nature to find all the answers to the universe. The creation of the monster is a result of a mad scientist who is in search of an immense amount of knowledge. He could be a victim of the cruelty of society, after all he still has a good part of him. Through nature and his experiences he learns new things to become a noble savage as a result. He is capable of emotion: he gets teary eyed at the sight of spring, but he still knows that he is ugly and deformed and he knows that

Throughout the novel, Victor is having to endure so much pain in his life. Which all could have been mostly avoided in the first place if after he was done creating him; helped the monster awaken in the new world by his side to teach him the ways of the world. “I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house I inhabited where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation” the monster was created as victor left him to fend for himself, practically was left to die.

At one point during his pursuit of knowledge, he said “in other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder (Chapter 4, Par. 2).” This was during Victor’s early years at Ingolstadt, and he was just getting started. As time passed, he became increasingly obsessed with certain subjects that eventually led him into creating the monster. While doing so in the process, he was slowly losing control of his mind, and other people became very suspicious of what he was doing. When Victor was finished creating the monster, his entire personality had changed from when he first started attending the university. Since he put his heart and sole into his creation, he was weak and a bit odd in the end. Which concerned his parents, since he had not written a letter back to them in so long. Due to his pursuit of knowledge, Victor had a different outlook on life and abandoned his creation. However, Victor was the only individual that had a different outlook on life due to knowledge. We must remember that the monster also changed his mindset from reading specific texts, such as: Sorrows of Werter, Paradise Lost, and Plutarch's Lives. After reading these books, the monster said “ they produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raise me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection ( Chapter 15, Par. 4).” The monster had no knowledge of the world he was living in. By reading these books, he started thinking about his life thus far, and how it has affected him. When the monster the read Paradise Lost, he considered it a history book of about the how the world was created. In doing so, he felt sympathetic for Satan’s character. In his defense, he had