In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and his creature are alike, yet different, as people and as monsters. Not many people see the plot twist in this story, but it is the thing that's stood out most to me when I read this. Most people i talk to say that the creature is the monster in this book, but I don't see it like that. I my point of view, I see victor Frankenstein as the monster. I say this because I found more reasons that he his the monster and also found the similarities outweigh the differences. For example, both of their hopes died when they made mistakes. The creature hoped for friends, but nobody would love him. “Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardon in my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.” Victor had hopes in overall life but those dreams are dead now too because he made the creature “From my infancy I was imbued with high hope and a lofty ambition, but how am I sunk!” They are similar because the creature and Victor both hoped for something but those hopes all went down. …show more content…
Victor is alone because the creature killed all of Victors friends/family. “He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness, in evil: he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensational, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.” The creature is alone because Victor ran from him, along with everyone else. Victor also didn't make the female creature. “Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associate in his desolation; I am alone.” The creature is saying that even humans that do the worst things, still have friends. Even though I said this is a similarity, it is also a difference because all of Victors friends were killed by the creature. The creature is alone because everyone is scared of
Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein from her novel Frankenstein is not so different from Shakespeare’s character Macbeth in his play Macbeth. These characters, although they come from a different time and place than the other, have very similar experiences throughout their lives. These similarities start with their traits and then get even more similar with their upbringing and the challenges that they must face while trying to achieve their goal. Frankenstein and Macbeth’s similarities come to an end with the unfortunate ending that they made for themselves.
The realization of loneliness gave the creature the craving for attention. Which he felt that the only way he could get the attention from Victor, was by killing the one’s that was close to Victor. Since Victor isolation was brought on by himself, he was able to rejoin society. After receiving a letter from his love Elizabeth he return home. Even though Victor faced emotional distress, he was able to return home, unlike the creature who had no one to love and couldn’t be accepted by any humans, and not having no way of escaping from his isolation. The creature need for attention led him of murdering the one’s closet to victor. “ Will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspired love, I will cause feared, and cheifly towards you my archenemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred”. Murder is the creature way to seek attention from Victor. Eventually, he had killed everyone that was
The plots of each character determines how the story can go. Victor is seen as a motivated, intelligent man that pursues his passion with all his might. This seeking of passion is what led Victor into doing what he had to do. The quote on chapter 5 that was said by victor was “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” the key word is had. Victor is saying that he had desired it, meaning that what was his passion before does not fulfill him anymore. He also talks about how his dream had vanished. The word vanished is a metaphor to add more excitement into the reader. Its talking about how his dream no longer exists within him. It is ironic that Victor had realized his mistake too late. He had accomplished his goal, but only after that did he truly understand what he had done. The characters' actions affected the plot of the story of a very high aspect. If not for Victos undying ambition this would not have happened. This points out the significance of the plot and how it shaped the characters' actions to a point of no return. The monster on the other hand, in chapter 15 had said "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?” yet another use of metaphor was used in this quote. The word spark symbolizes life. This shows that comparison between the speech pattern between the two characters. They have been put in a similar plot that makes them feel certain emotions that make them do specific things.
The monster and Victor have many traits that make them similar. For example, Him and the creature share the same traits of the need of familiar bonds, the love of nature and their need to create familiar bonds. They both were two so unique individuals. Him being the creation of Victor, you should tend to recognize their multiple similarities because he was created in his thought process of a well created being. Besides their relationship with nature, they are both filled with passionate vengeance.
Throughout the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley shows the creature and his creator Victor Frankenstein as similar in many ways. Through these similarities, Shelley tries to express to the reader how they can find similarities with others around them, and relate to one another. Especially as the novel progresses, Shelley reveals these similarities as the characters develop. Though on the surface they may seem on two opposite ends of the spectrum, digging deeper shows that the creature and Frankenstein share many characteristics. They both share a trait of seclusion, a wanting for vengeance, as well as a drive to gain more knowledge about certain topics. Shelley purposefully put these similarities in the book to show how humans can relate to one another, regardless of how different they seem.
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley makes a parallel between multiple characters. She focuses on their similarities and differences between them. Along with comparing and contrasting the characters, she also presents a theme. Two of the multiple characters she makes a parallel to is Victor and the Creature. These two characters have their own quest they want to conquer, along with their emotional ties to other individuals, and then their similarity and differences between being lonely.
The creature felt like a cure for his loneliness would be for Victor to create another creature just like him. The creature was capable of love and that’s all he really wanted. He wanted to
Nevertheless, Victor was scared and terrified when he first saw the monster. He let the Monster leave. What he didn't foresee is that the Monster wanted to be like human being. The Monster seeks the love, the care, the communication, the emotion that makes human different from animals, but Victor rejected Monster’s request to create a companion. When the monster found out that Victor defy him, he destroyed Victor and Victor’s family. Victor blamed himself; he believed that he is guilty because he failed to finished the task — to destruct the Monster; Victor blamed himself that because of his mistake they whole family died, and he has the live with that sin forever until he
When Victor isolated himself from society, he went mad finding the depths of natural philosophy and creating the monster; discarding himself from the responsibility and consequences to come. Even Clerval, when he went for a visit, noticed his unusual behavior “he saw wildness in my eyes…; and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter frightened and astonished him.” As for the monster, Victor neglected him ever since he was brought into the world. The monster’s intentions were never to be evil until his heart became filled with hatred and revenge because of his loneliness. Solitude and the lack of compassion toward the creature leads him to make Victor’s life miserable, killing the people he truly
In Frankenstein, the Monster is compassionate, and values the life of other people, while Victor is obsessed with creating new lives, and will commit vulgar acts to achieve his aggressive goals. Victor and the Monster each represent the opposite theme commonly found in Frankenstein. Victor represents Knowledge and Ambition. When describing Victor’s study when he went off to college, Victor’s “limbs now tremble...but then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; I seem to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness as soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits (Shelley 40).
The book “Frankenstein” isn’t all about a mindless zombie that just wanders around aimlessly that society has made him up to be, instead “Frankenstein”, by Mary Shelley portrays a very intelligent creature that just wants to be loved and acknowledged by his dear creator, Victor. The creature refers to himself as Adam and all Adam wants is attention but instead as soon as he came to life he was outcasted by Victor and everyone else he came into contact with. Adam tried his very best to do good, but was just met with hatred so he started killing people close in relation to Victor so he could get his attention. Thick headed Victor didn’t catch the drift so Adam literally killed everyone so Victor didn’t have a choice to pay attention to anyone
Victor endured and witnessed the murder of his loved ones: “The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife” (pg. 187). Victor’s irresponsible actions led to his beloved friends and family to be murdered by his creation. His impulsive act of gifting life to a dangerous beast clearly displayed the cynical aftermath of playing God. Likewise to society and Victor, the Creature is alienated and disrespected by society and his creator; the Creature’s entire life was devoted to great agony and
Because his own creator was disgusted, the creature realized that he was terrible and that no one would love him. When Victor ran away the creature was put into the mindset of how he is wretched and that people do
The creature comes to mourn to accept that he’ll die alone too, even though Victor had abandoned him with such a horrifying presence and did