I Am You, You Are Me: Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

Throughout the book, Shelley wanted to point out that even though Victor’s Id drove him to the brink of insanity he reveals the guilt he felt when realizing what he had done. In that case, when the monster expresses his feelings and frustration towards Victor, Victor is overcome with “justice in his argument” (126) and states, “His tale, and the feelings he now expressed, proved to him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness” (126). This quote is an indication that Victor realizes that the creature did deserve happiness, and when realizing that, guilt overcame him making him to consider to ‘pay’ the monster back. Not only did Victor feel guilty for his creation, but also felt the regret of creating the creature. Victor says, “I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me. I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that crime” (138). In this quote, it is obvious that because of his desires and drive to do something that he in the end regretted entirely, he felt as if he was the one that was guilty and responsible for creating the monster that he once wanted. In reality of Victors situation, he knew that because of his creation, he was guilty and often stated that “those were the last moment of my life during which I enjoyed

In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the unnamed creature brings terror to civilians and commits horrific acts against his creator, Victor Frankenstein. However, his redeemable acts of kindness makes his character morally ambiguous. He struggles between doing well and causing trouble because of isolation, the excerpts of society, and his pursuit for love.

This is seen throughout the novel because Victor is the reason his creation is miserable, it is an outcast and Victor is the reason for it. “‘You are in the wrong,’ replied the fiend ; ‘and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am miserable’” (Shelley 164). The monster is explaining to Victor that it has been alone and miserable for two years, ever since Victor created him. When he was abandoned, there was no one to help him in society, making the creation find its own with no help, no one he could trust and no one who cared for him. All because Victor did not own up for his mistake and kept his creation a secret. In the poem Rime of an ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the mariner is responsible for the crew’s misery. After killing the albatross, the ship is stuck in a dead sea and the crew has no water or food, they are miserable and are waiting for death to come. In the monster’s case, Victor is the reason why he is miserable and he is also the reason why he does not fit into society. “I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch ; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing ; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept” (Shelley 114). When the creation was abandoned by Victor, he strolled in the woods alone and

In the novel frankenstein, the theme was mostly revenge because the creature was frustrated on how his the only creature like that and very ugly that no one understands. He wanted revenge because he thinks he shouldn't be alive so compares himself to satan. “When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base (shelley 42). Revenge plays in a role where the creature wants revenge by victor making him a creature where he didn't feel like he should've been created. As he wants revenge the creature kills a person to prove victor that he was a mistake. By doing that, victor feels guilty and thinks that

Victor is the one of the main characters in the story of “Frankenstein”. He has his own ways of getting revenge which mostly occur on his own creature, although it is because of his creatures actions that makes him do what he does. One of the ways Victor got his revenge was when he destroyed

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. .

There is a myth that every creature on this planet is one half of a whole and must be completed by another half. Sometimes it takes that other half coming into their life to make them realize the truth about themselves and to see hidden parts of their unconscious minds that they otherwise would not have noticed themselves. Mary Shelley, an accomplished writer during the Romantic Era of English Literature, is the author of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein is a young man with a hunger and passion for knowledge and science. He wants to do what no one has ever done before- create human life all on his own. Victor creates an eight foot tall, grotesquely terrifying monster that after continuous rejection from society, decides to take revenge on the man that gave him life. Shelley shows throughout this novel how two mortal enemies can be surprisingly similar and even act as mirrors of each other.

There is a seemingly endless cycle of revenge throughout the novel, which connects Frankenstein to his creation. When Frankenstein finds out his creation is the reason for William and Justine’s death, it drives his deep emotions for the beast. “My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived. When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflame, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed”(Shelley74). He is reflecting on the creatures actions which have pushed him to wish the creature was never born. In a sense, he is

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein there are several parallels that can be drawn. One of the major parallels in the novel is the connection between Victor Frankenstein and the creature he creates; there is an interesting relationship between these two characters. Frankenstein and his creation are not blood related, however, their similarities bond the two. Despite their dislike for one another and their physical differences Frankenstein shares many characteristics with his creation, throughout the novel we see each of them find comfort in nature, become isolated from society, and seek revenge towards those who have wronged them. There is significance in these similarities; if Frankenstein’s creation had not been physically deformed they would

He deprives himself from social interaction, sleep, and good food, driving his mind to a distraught place. He is gambling with his well-being and health for an invention he will surely regret. After assembling the body parts and odd chemicals to create the ‘Being,’ he animates it by a sudden spark. Here we understand that Frankenstein fully regrets his decision of congregating such a ‘human-monster’ or an abomination to God. Victor is depressed now. He becomes drained through simple social interaction, and we see this when he becomes ill and refuses to send letters to his father and future wife to inform them of his wellbeing, or if he was dead or

The monster, not happy at all with this, vows eternal revenge towards his creator. In the novel, the creature’s actions make him the real monster because he killed people as revenge towards Victor, his actions became consequences and troubles for society, and he had a vengeful mindset towards society. For instance, the monster had murdered Victor’s loved ones as revenge towards Victor. As stated by Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy - to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim… I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.”

Because victor abandoned his creation and left it to run wild, the monster was left to find food, clothes, shelter, and educate himself, the monster eventually discovers his creator’s true feelings towards him and seeks out revenge against him, starting Frankenstein’s lifetime of punishment (Mia, 2016). Victor’s sin is not against God but against nature. His sin is that of Hubris, an attempt to become master over the powers of nature through the creation of an unnatural man. His corresponding punishment is to become a slave to the wicked actions of his monster. He is forced to watch his loved ones be murdered one by one, while he remains powerless (Mia, 2016). In the final chapter of Frankenstein, the creature does express remorse for his terrible acts, as they caused the death of his creator, surely he weeps over the body of victor Frankenstein whom he has loved from the second he opened his eyes (Westwood,

In the book Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein was a scientist who made a scientific discovery that resulted to his own destruction. He ended up creating a monster to which he failed to give love and support it expected. The monster was lonely and sad which led him to seek revenge from Victor and eventually be the reason of his death. The revenge by the monster was a just punishment for Victor’s actions because he attempted to give life to the dead which was completely against the law of nature and the outcome of anything against God’s will would ultimately be the nemesis of the one who created it.

Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. The tale of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses on the outcome of one man 's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge. Rather, it was his poor parenting of his progeny that lead to his creation 's thirst for the vindication of his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and so the creation accuses him for delivering him into a world where he could not ever be entirely received by the people who inhabit it. Not only failing to foresee his faulty idealism, nearing the end of the tale, he embarks upon a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while admitting he himself that it may result in his own doom. The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life holds Victor Frankenstein more accountable for his own death than the creation himself.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, illustrates an interesting story focusing in on many different themes, but what most readers may miss, is the similarities between Victor Frankenstein and the creature he created. As the story develops, one may pick up on these similarities more and more. This is portrayed through their feelings of isolation, thirst for revenge, their bold attempt to play god, and also their hunger to obtain knowledge. These are all displayed through a series of both the actions and the words of Frankenstein and his creature.