The Consequences Of Human Failure In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the tale of the protagonist Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Both Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s creation’s questionable actions lead them both to be considered morally ambiguous figures. Victor is ambitious with good intentions, but his ambition leads to bad results. The Creature is an innately kind and compassionate person who commits abominable actions due to how others treat him. Their moral ambiguity is significant, as it reveals that an obsession with ambition distorts one’s morals.

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

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. .

Frankenstein follows Victor Frankenstein’s triumph as he reanimates a dead body, and then details his guilt for creating such a thing. When the creation realizes how he came to be, and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator’s loved ones. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portrays Victor Frankenstein as the true monster of the story through the use of literary devices revealing the characteristics that Frankensteins and monsters share, and shows how Frankenstein’s irresponsibility leads to his monstrous labeling.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a story about Victor Frankenstein’s creation, a monster. Throughout the story, the monster feels left out, like an outcast, and as a result turns to killing to get revenge on his creator. He wreaks havoc everywhere he goes and ultimately causes his own demise. By the end of the story, it would have been better for everyone if the monster had been destroyed. He never should have been created in the first place, caused chaos, constantly felt out of place in the world, and did not really have a purpose for living.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has a simple origin, compared to other stories. While stories such as It by Stephen king started a several year process of creation, Frankenstein began simply as a campfire story Mary Shelley shared with her writer friends one evening. Although the origins of this novel are fairly simple, it provides an in depth psychological perspective on the darker side of human psyche through the shifting first person perspective. Usually these darker aspects are associated with the character’s personal struggles, but one specific theme in all the characters. The theme of obsession has been consistent and the central focus of the three main characters Victor, the creature, and Robert. With this central theme in mind the author, Mary Shelley shows that obsession leads to the characters suffering negative psychological and physical effects, as well as impair their decision making. This is depicted through the decline of physical and mental health through Victor’s struggles with his obsessions with knowledge and justice.

In her fear-provoking novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley explores the consequences of fervently pursuing a desire for knowledge. She reveals the dangers of acquiring knowledge through her character, Victor Frankenstein, who becomes so consumed with discovering the origin of life that he eventually endows life upon a creature built from lifeless matter. However, Victor neglects his duties as a creator by abandoning his creation, as he is immediately disgusted by the creature’s appearance. On his own, the creature is constantly rejected by society due to his appearance, and ultimately, he vows revenge on his creator. The creature fulfills this task by murdering most of Victor’s loved ones, including his closest friend, Henry Clerval, and his own

Frankenstein’s story is one of arrogance, sorrow, and a series of avoidable but unfortunate events. Victor Frankenstein’s drive for admiration and glory from his peers proves to be the cause, and drive, of his self-centered goals. When contemplating the need of nature vs. nurture the story of Frankenstein shows that both are needed although in this story the demise and destruction that occurs in the story is inevitable despite either nature or nurture.

Many people find that sometimes the outcome they strived for is not the one they hoped to achieve. Usually it is exactly the opposite scenario that ends up happening, which leads to disappointment and dissatisfaction. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, captures this perfectly with many of its intricate characters. While on his quest for an undead friend, Victor Frankenstein did not expect to create the being that he soon despises while happily searching for viable body parts. Instead he reanimates a giant creature with daddy issues and a thirst for revenge. This ‘monster’ certainly does not expect his creator to be a whiny young man with a never ending hatred for the Creature’s guts. As Frankenstein makes the fatal mistake of building his own monster, he learns that it is not the finished product that is the most satisfying, but the path one takes to get there.

In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley shows Victor’s bad decision by his role in creating the creature, destroying the female, and seeking his revenge on the creature. Victor Frankenstein’s role in creating the creature ultimately leads to the death of people he cares about. First and foremost, Victor abandons him soon

For the most part, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is analyzed as a comment on human society- whether the monster was actually a monster or just human nature in it's purest form, or on morals- whether it's right or not to put immortality in the hands of other humans. While there are a million ways to analyze this novel, one that's never brough up is that this is truly Mary Shelley pouring the guilt over the loss of her daughter onto paper. Through that lense, Shelley set herself apart from the other gothic romantics of the time; instead of portraying immortality through the main character consuming an elixir of life or another method that solely benefited the main character Shelley portrayed the idea of immortality through creation, or the

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein explores the darkest sides of human nature. The gothic tale is pessimistic, highlighting the plights of modern human society in the character’s own mistakes and misfortunes. The ambition of Victor and his Creation lead them to acts of arrogance and horror. Frankenstein breaks natural law in raising dead flesh back to life, an error which does not go unpunished. The countless tragedies which befall the story’s characters, accentuating the plight that is human life.

In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, dreams, nightmares, goals, and aspirations of the the scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and his creation, give insight to events that will occur later in the novel. The dreams and aspirations of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he creates contrast to the harsh realities that they are faced with. Frankenstein’s first dream foreshadows the death of his beloved wife and several others whom he is close to. His second dream foretells a potentially fatal encounter with his creature. His aspiration to become a renowned scientist by creating life from death consequently leads to the demise of Frankenstein’s life and reputation. The creature Frankenstein creates aspires to learn compassion, and how to fit into society. Though the creature learns human behaviors, he suffers from the rejection of his creator, and all people who see him.

Victor Frankenstein's curiosity to explore the secrets of nature marks the beginning of his end. He underestimates the power of nature and makes a huge mistake by placing excessive confidence on his own scientific knowledge. Nature is punishing Victor as a result of trying to expose the secrets of the divine. This is noticed when he abhors his creature and wishes he had never created him. The theme of sublime nature and dangers of forbidden knowledge are shown in the novel.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein portrays one of the darkest, most hopeless situations that could possibly occur due to the monstrous deeds performed by the main characters in the novel. When one thinks of Frankenstein, they generally think of Victor’s creation as being a monster, and the cause of the unfortunate events that occur in the novel. While Victor’s creation is indeed a monster, Victor is equally as monstrous in his actions. While both characters are initially innocent, they are being constantly corrupted throughout the story. Both Victor and his creation become monsters through their actions.