ant to hurt each other this bad. While Victor watches the fight from through the window, he gets scared and upsets him out of concern for his family and what they do to each other. However, to everyone else the fight is not something to be worried about, “[n]obody disagree[s], and nobody move[s] to change the situation” (pg 3). The fight doesn’t phase anyone
Many people in history have tried to play the role of God by taking other people’s lives and trying to do what has never been done before, creating a new species. In the novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein accomplished this goal by creating the monster thus playing the role of God. There are even many hints and lines in the story that are related to biblical stories and ideas to compare Victor as God or a father figure towards the creature. It gave Victor something to do with his life and even to this day people want to be like Victor and have the power of God.
When I began reading the first few chapters, I was curious and upset because I never found out what made Victor Frankenstein’s mother choose to adopt Elizabeth over the other kids. The fact that Elizabeth and Victor were very friendly to each other even after being two poles apart surprised me. Victor was serious and loud whereas Elizabeth was calm and somber. I was also strongly impressed with Victor Frankenstein’s desire for knowledge. Even after many hurdles, he still did not back down from attending the university. For example, after his mother passed away, Victor was depressed and saddened but that still did not stop him. If I had encountered the same situation, I would have not had the courage to move on with my life right away. Frankenstein
When someone asks you what your favorite food is and you are stuck because you can not decide because you have more than one favorite. This is just what it is like when you read stories as well. The reasoning for me saying that is because in every story there are many themes one can get out of it. This is like the story “Frankenstein” that is being read in Honors English too. It has many possible themes for it, yet the one theme of it or i believe fits it is revenge. When revenge is brought up in any conversation the outcome is typically people saying that revenge is not worth the outcome. It is also said that revenge is bittersweet, but usually has a ugly aftermath because it can be dangerous in its own ways. Within the story “Frankenstein” there are numerous examples of revenge and character getting revenge. The two main characters for me that was thought to get revenge was Victor and the creature.
In the championship, the boys were intent to win. After the bell rang they keep fighting like strangers they were hitting each other hard all the People from Tompkins Square Park Thought that if it was a death fight instead of a boxing match.
In my opinion, the creature is human. He can have feelings and understand words, like any human would. The creature had feelings of sympathy, jealousy, happiness, and anger. Like a child, he was able to learn, understand, and speak words from being around people.
The kind of social interaction which is at display in the fight during the party is conflict. Conflict is generally taken to be a normal and essential part of social interaction. It is not seen as an anomaly but as an essential part of the social landscape. The fight between the two boys at night is also an example of conflict which may have happened and motivated by the pursuit of self interests. It affected others also at the party. People started leaving the party after
The creature created by Frankenstein learned by observing other people and he realized he should not be lost or lonely, and that he should at least have someone else there for companionship. That is the reason he asked Victor to make him a companion, but Victor did not go through with it. He was wrong for doing so because the female creature would only know as much as the creature would’ve wanted her to know, and if it was any more than that it was simply an observation. He would’ve also gone down in history for changing human society by advancing science. The creature just wanted happiness from life, and he depended on Victor to deliver that happiness.
Beastly, vengeful, and violent - these are the adjectives that often describe evil characters. In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, Victor’s Creature displays all of these characteristics and yet the reader still sympathizes with Creature and his situation. Through Creature’s violent actions, he manifests his immorality, but some readers justify and forgive his actions because of their emotional involvement in his character. Readers sympathize with Creature´s human attributes, his emotions, kind actions, and need for companionship and juxtaposed with society's harsh judgement of his appearance.
In the novel Frankenstein, Victor and the Monster had the same correlation throughout the entire book. They were always dealing with the same situations. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, with Victor and the Monster. From nature, family, and living in desolation, they shared an abundance in common.
The creature is a victim because he was left by his creator(Victor) and exposed to the world in the worst possible way. He can’t seem to make any friends because everyone is scared of him; he never chose his fate, but that’s how he is treated. Everyone treats him as a monster at first sight even though they don’t know him. Victor also can be seen as a victim because the creature keeps killing people he loves. When he was making the creature, he didn’t expect what the result was and now, all he hears is that the monster is killing his loved ones. I think it is possible for the creature and Victor to be both perpetrators and victims. For Victor, as I already explained why he is a victim, he violated the law of nature which is why I said he could
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
The author reveals her anger against Victor in a quote. “I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch whose delight was in carnage and misery, had he not murdered my brother?” (Shelley 63) Mary sounds as if she is angry with Victor and wants him to be seen as guilty for what he has done. She really makes it relevant when saying, “had he not murdered my brother?”. The author seems to paint a bad portrait of Frankenstein’s monster since- he is the monster. However, she still tends to keep her attention on Victor. She wants the reader to know that he was the creator; therefore he is the cause of the death of his wife, brother, father etc. Mary Shelley does this because she wants Victor to be held accountable for creating a monster.
Victor died when he was 27 from homophobia and the syndemic nature it undertakes in nations like Tanzania. He died via an opportunistic co-infection of Tuberculosis and AIDS. Under the withdrawal symptoms of heroin and opiates he sweated, he cried, and he starved alone on a hospital bed in the Dar es Salaam zonal hospital. He was like this for weeks, as his CD count plummeted, the ARVs could not save him and the nurses and doctors - with contempt - witnessed his death. On his deathbed, instead of a prayer, he was forced to write a list of all the people he ever made love to, made love to him, who forced themselves upon him, who bought the inner reaches of his soul, so they could be saved from his punishment. Or, so they could be captured.
The word ‘doppelganger’ originated in Germany and can loosely be translated to ‘double-walker’ it was later adapted into British culture being a word to describe ‘a ghostly counterpart of a living person’. The monster could be seen as the completely representation of Victor’s evil side, one way this could be argued is the idea of Victor’s repressed sexual desires. Victor says how he was “disturbed by the wildest dreams” just after he falls asleep after creating the monster. The adjective ‘disturbed’ could link to the idea of being interrupted or fragmented, this could just mean that the dream was so abnormal because the sleep he was having was abnormal due to the situation or it could link to Victor’s mental health and the fact he is going
Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein is about a man who had a strong urge to finish a scientific project and did not accept his consequences for his own mistakes. Mary Shelley’s work consists of Gothic elements and have great emotion that go along with them. Mary Shelley’s childhood may have affected her writing, she had a tough life growing up and her book shows this. Throughout the novel there are many Gothic elements that all contribute to the events in the book. Victor neglecting his own responsibility and disrupting the natural order of things ultimately leads to the death of the two major characters in the end of the novel.