How Does Victor Still Advocate For Blind Ambition In Frankenstein

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 destroy 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 are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature...but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless honor and disgust filled my heart ” (36). Victor Frankenstein realizes what his obsession with pursuing an extensive amount of knowledge has brought him. His destiny to achieve the impossible with no regard for anyone or anything but himself shows that he is blinded by knowledge when creating the monster and is incapable to foresee the outcome of his creation. Victor’s goal was meant to improve and help humanity, but instead it leads to

Victor is also a villain in a Archetype sense. Victor was trying to play god, when he created the creature, and that is something he shouldn't have done, because humans can't become too powerful, even though they always try. Victor became so obsessed with creating life, that it clouded his judgment, and took up all of his time and energy. On page 66, just before Justine's trial, Victor thought to himself, "During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture. It was to be whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings." This line shows two things, first Victor knew that Justine, and William's death was his fault. Also, he knew that his experiments, shouldn't have been done, and were against the laws of nature and god. On page 39, Victor says, "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source, many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me." This quote shows how Victor wanted to be like a god. He wanted to be admired, and praised as a species creator. And this want is another reason he was the real villain of Frankenstein.

Have you uncovered Victor’s true character yet? Throughout Frankenstein, surprisingly the reader can distinguish a number of differences, rather than similarities, between him and the creature regarding aspects of regret and murders that took place. These points also reveal that Victor is way more malicious, compared to the monster, because his sins outweigh those of the monster’s. The story commenced with a character named Walton who had come across Victor. Victor was well off and received lavish attention from his parents during his childhood years. With an interest in the science field, he had created a malicious creature. As the story persists, both characters, the creature and Victor, gain an increasing hatred for one another leading to

Everybody has principles that they live by, including Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Readers first meet Victor as Captain Walton saves him from the ice and the cold that he found himself surrounded by after chasing his own creation. Victor Frankenstein is selfish. He wanted all of the glory that came with the creation of life, but none of the responsibility of raising his creation to know right from wrong and having other essential morals. While describing his studies, Victor says “Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death” (pg 35-36). Victor was very concerned about glory as a student. This becomes more evident the more readers learn about Victor’s past, education

Victor’s driving, obsessive ambition ruined his life and led to his own death and the murder of his loved ones. Illustrate how ambition affects not only Victor and Robert Walton, but also the creature in Frankenstein.

Throughout Frankenstein, Victor proves to be quite an egotistical person. Victor’s actions will sometimes be selfish and not as noble as he would like others to believe. He creates the monster with a desire to obtain awe and fame and to make sure that his name will be remembered throughout history. “… a light so brilliant and wondrous… that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret” (Shelley 37). While this discovery of Victor’s may be groundbreaking, he fails to think of the negative consequences, only thinking of himself and what this could potentially

The power of knowledge has also affected Victor in a negative way. Ever since Victor was a child, he had always been interested in science. As he got older, he got even more interested in specific topics within natural philosophy, particularly the human body. After his talk with his professor, he believed he could create an animate object from an inanimate object, in which this case the object turned into a monster. “My labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete” (57). Victor has put a lot of effort into learning the anatomy of a human body and pursues the creation of one, yet he doesn’t realize how small the margin of error would be. Later on in the book, the monster demands Victor to create a

Victor Frankenstein was a major figure in the novel with a burning desire to learn. “I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour… My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement” (Pg55). His discovery of the obscure secret to create life caused him to become absorbed in his experiment. Ambition had consumed him and the only thing keeping him alive was his passion and "blindness" to what he will produce in the end. "I had deprived myself of rest and health…but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." However this ambition eventually led to the demise of Victor Frankenstein. Fuelled by the hatred he had for the creature after the death of his loved ones, his ambition was to kill the creature. “I vow vengeance…I devote thee, miserable wretch, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish…” Victor failed to liberate himself from his blinding ambitions, and repent was noticeable in his last words "Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and

In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; the main character Victor shows very little responsibility for his actions throughout the novel. Victor needs to take responsibility for his actions and for the creature he created. Towards the beginning of the book, when Frankenstein decided he wanted to create a creature by using other people’s body parts to make the creature. After the creature comes to life, he reaches out to Victor.

In the gothic novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the protagonist Dr. Victor Frankenstein brings life to a monster who then reeks havoc across Europe on a merciless killing spree, seeking revenge against his creator. However, this creature is not born evil or murderous, but becomes so as a result of Victor’s negligence and pride. The creation of the monster, the death of its victims, and all of the pain which is brought onto Victor and his family in the novel is ultimately his own fault, for he is possessed by a selfish desire for glory and power, largely unsympathetic, seemingly incapable of fully accepting responsibility, and, in the end, simply too self-absorbed to realise the error of his ways before it is too late. Victor attends

In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the character Dr. Victor Frankenstein is arguably a very disturbed man. The main idea of Shelley’s novel is explaining two sides of the same story along with a different perspective. Robert Walton, an Artic seafarer, opens the novel with him coming across Victor Frankenstein. He listens to Victor’s life story, which is the main part of the novel, while he attempts to keep him in good health. Victor’s part of the novel explains how he discovered how to bring the dead to life, although he was not prepared to the consequences it would bring. After bringing the monster to life, Victor can not face his own creation and abandons it. The monster is then left to live in the woods, educating himself and attempting

I admire Victor Frankenstein creative ability to utilize his scientific knowledge to figure out how to create a man. In order to accomplish this goal, I am impressed at the inordinate amount of time Victor spent studying and learning how the body works in order to create a human monster. To me that’s impressive but Victor is extremely irresponsible by not including anyone when he is creating another human. He is selfish and careless in his scientific research. When Frankenstein comes to life he does not tell anyone about the human creature he created leaving the creature off into the world with no guidance. Victor’s irresponsibility of not understanding the capabilities of his scientific research and abandoning it makes him careless and jeopardizes society. The decision not to locate the creature and humanize

“One Man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge…”(Shelley, 11) Throughout the gothic classic Frankenstein we see a man’s attempt to reanimate the dead. Though the main character, Victor Frankenstein, was able to overcome death, he ends up creating a monster. The creation ends up killing his brother, best friend, and his wife; Victor Frankenstein then dedicates the rest of his life to hunt down the creation. Though Victor may seem to have a good reason, he really has an egotistical ulterior motive. Because of his true motives, one can perceive that Victor Frankenstein’s actions in creating the monster were unethical.

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, the protagonist Victor Frankenstein is portrayed as a morally dubious character. Passionate about the natural sciences and interested in it since a young age, he dedicates years to the project of creating life. Painstakingly piecing together bit by bit body parts from dead people scrounged up from labs, he succeeds in creating his creature. Once he creates it, however, he is disgusted with it, abandons it, and regrets ever creating it as it slowly goes about killing all those that he loves. Though through the entire piece he refers the creature as a ‘monster’ or a ‘demon’, Victor neglects to take responsibility for his actions or make a serious effort to rectify them.

In the book Frankenstein, young Victor had everything he could want for a family, two loving parents, siblings to keep him company, and even an adopted cousin Elizabeth. Yet, he still began to isolate himself from them with his study of outdated natural philosophy and alchemy. A few years later, Victor leaves for Ingolstadt, a college in Germany. This further separated Victor from his family, and also from society. After arriving at Ingolstadt, Victor’s professors tell him that he has wasted his time with this nonsense. After this, Victor begins his studies anew, and all the while he has a side project, one so horrible and outlandish that he never speaks of it. This ambition eventually leads Victor to his ultimate demise.