The Demise And Destruction Of Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein

It informs that their brother William was murdered the night before. Promptly, Victor packs his bags and returns to his hometown in Geneva to mourn the loss of his brother. Because, he is late entering his city’s gates he is allowed a lot of downtime; during this time Victor returns to his brother’s murder site and at the scene notices a large, bulky, hideous tall creature in the trees. Immediately, he knows that the murderer of his brother is the object he created himself. The two years that passed between the creation of his monster and the murder of his brother, William, what was the monster doing? Was he just roaming around in the forest aimlessly? If so how did the monster know that Victor’s family resided in Geneva? This murder proves that the life form he created is certainly intelligent and embodies feeling and attitude. I predict that the monster was motivated to kill William not because he enjoyed murder but because he wanted to get Victor’s attention. Because the monster has never been in contact with humans it knows no other way of getting a person’s attention. The result of this murder was a false accusation of a girl, which ended up in capital punishment for the innocent girl. The only person that knows the truth is Victor. Just like Dorian, the overwhelming sensation of and remorse will lead to their eventual downfall. This is how Victor feels about the

While Victor feels utter hatred for his creation, the creature shows that he is not a purely evil being. The creature's animated description of events reveals his sensitivity and kindness. He assists a group of poor peasants and saves a girl from drowning, but because of his outward appearance, he is rewarded with beatings and disgust. Torn between revengefulness and compassion, the monster ends up lonely and tormented by remorse. Even the death of his creator offers only bittersweet relief: joy because Victor has caused him so much suffering, sadness because Victor is the only person with whom he has had any sort of relationship.

Victor experiences alienation throughout the entirety of his life. From his childhood and family, to his scientific work and society, he chooses isolation. Victor was an only child in a ‘perfect’ family. He acquires an attraction to science and begins to educate himself. Victor tells of his past to Walton, “I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favorite studies. My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge” (Shelley 26). To begin his scientific studies, Victor leaves his family. He hardly has any contact with his family, and his isolation from them seems to have no effect on him at all. He decides when to have contact with his family at his discretion.

The problems with Victor behaved after he made the creature is that he abandoned the creature instead of owning up to his decides. When Victor started his experiment, he was so obsessed with the idea of creating life, but when he finally succeeded it he realise that he made a big mistake. He says in the book that “The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feeling of human nature (Chapter 5 page 47).” He has spent nearly two whole years obsessing over trying to create life just for the beauty of the dream to die after he finished it. Nearly two years of depriving himself of sleep and health just to turn around and fill completed horror and disgust of his creature.

The creature is like and infant it knows nothing and is learning through observation. If Victor is reacting negatively towards him then he can only assume the worst about himself. Victor seems to spend more time cursing the creatures existence and less time questioning what he should do about it. Out of sight out of mind. Since Victor fled from the creature's sight, the creature also fled from Victors sight.

Later in the book we learn to understand that the creature becomes violent. This is resulting from any encounters that the monster has had with people. When he soon learns the rejection of him by people, he becomes violent and sets out to kill Victor his creature. As the monster stumbles upon a young boy in a forest he plans to kidnap him, so that he would have someone to love. When he figures out that this is

He wants to cause him the same amount of pain that he is feeling. While he’s in the forest, the creature witnesses a young child drowning. The child’s guardian saw the creature and immediately assumed that he was hurting the child so, after saving the child’s life, the creature is shot in the arm. It takes the creature weeks to heal from his wound, and he then travels to Victor. As the creature furthers his narrative, he explains how he ran into Victor’s younger brother, William, while he was in search of his creator.

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

It was dark and without motion, then a sound. It was a boy, saying my name. “Maria, are you awake?” the boy said. I woke up, there, sitting next to me, was a boy who looked eerily similar to me. Same brown hair, green eyes, pale skin, we were even wearing the same outfit! “Who are you?” I asked. “Maria, are you kidding me, it’s Edward!” To which I gave a confused face, ‘I don't know any Edwards.” I said. “I’m your twin brother Maria! Man, you must have hit your head hard.” He said. “Ok, I guess that makes sense.” I replied. We sat there waiting for a few minutes in a dark, lifeless forest. Until, from behind some bushes, appeared a large and beautiful woman. She had blue skin and hair as well as a long flowing dress and a trident in each hand. When she saw us, she imediantly strapped both tridents to her back. I jumped up and hid behind Edward, because the creature was definently not human. The giant woman came up to me and asked me how I was doing. “What are you?” I asked. “Oh! I’m a spirit, your spirit. But, you call me Naide.” The giant woman said. “Do you not remember me?” she asked.

The creature is a lonely individual who is rejected by every person he comes in contact with. His lack of nurture and positive social interaction causes him to become violent and seek revenge on Victor, the person he deems responsible for his miserable existence. Victor believes that the creature was evil from the time of his creation and does not find fault in himself. He refers to him as an “abhorred monster and fiend” (Shelley 93). Likewise, the creature argues that he would not be such a wretch if he had not been rejected by his creator.

From the novel, it is obvious that Victor had a blissful childhood. He, as the elder son, received exclusive parental love and care for a long time before his brothers were born.”I remained for several years their only child. Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me.”(Shelley, M. 1994. Page 16, line 13-16) His life was filled with love and joy under the care of his caring parents and that of his constant companion, Elizabeth. Such a wonderful childhood led to him becoming an egocentric person. He rightfully enjoyed the love of his family but rarely in their lifetime took into account their needs. His cousin Elizabeth and his mother ended up shouldering most of the responsibilities and obligations in taking

At first, Victor rejects the monster that he created, even though he is essentially his father. This in turn results in the monster’s vengeance and killing of other people. When the

The creature is brought into the world with no knowledge of his purpose nor a sense of morality. These must be learned as taught by influences in its life such as Dr. Frankenstein. Victor acknowledges his responsibility toward the creature saying, “The innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.” At this point Victor realizes that the creature was not acting out of self motivation, rather, it was performing in a manner that it had interpreted as being correct based on its observation of people, such as the doctor. The monster, too, acknowledges that it is influenced by the actions of those around it. After terrifying cottagers and feeling immensely depressed and outcast, it views the same demographic of people interacting with each other. Their ability to be completely civil and kind hearted toward one another brings it happiness as well as confusion and anger for why it was not treated in this same manor. “...whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.” It is obvious that the monster has a keen sense of its surroundings and how they affect it, yet

In the novel Frankenstein, childhood development is a big theme amongst many others. The author, Mary Shelley, had personal motives to say something about it, as she had parents who raised her in a pretty open way. She was able to travel, explore the world, and fulfill her dreams. At the same time, she acknowledges that such dreams were fruitless for the women of her time by creating Elizabeth. In contrast to Shelley, Elizabeth is a character that resembled the typical woman raised to be a mother and a wife. Withal, she created Elizabeth in contrast to Victor, so that we could see the influences of parenting over the maturation of a person. In fact, Shelley makes us think how parenting is crucial to the development of a human being while making a connection with the theories of both Rousseau and Locke. For Rousseau, children are born good and it 's society that destroys their goodness while for Locke, children are born with minds as blank as slates and civilization teaches them to love and be good (Jamie Gianoutsos "Locke And Rousseau: Early Childhood Education." 2-5). Shelley creations suggest that she believed in both theories. Nevertheless, Shelley wanted to say more about the connection between adulthood and parenting, thus, she brings another factor to the table, which seems to be her own theory of human development; that the separation of gender and it 's responsibilities on the family setting are detrimental to the development

It was a dark and stormy night, Billy was just lying under his blanket as he was staring up at the ceiling. As the trees quivered in the wind the moonlight would cast a shadow onto his white curtains, giving the illusion of a monster trying to get through Billy’s window. Billy noticed the shadow and he got spooked then hid under his covers.