The Importance Of Friendship In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Shelley explains how Victor has a great mental turmoil after he indirectly caused the death of people who were close to him by the actions he took to create the monster. Shelley’s description of Victor’s feelings show the deprivation of hope and fear in his soul and the emphasises the pain in which he was indirectly the cause of. Victor not only caused his own mental illness, but he also caused his own physical illness. Victor makes himself physically sick by his actions during the creation of his monster. Victor’s work unintentionally causes himself to decline in health and become vulnerable to illnesses. “When Victor is working on his experiment, he cannot love: he ignores his family, even his fiance Elizabeth, and takes no pleasure in the beauties of nature. Moreover, he becomes physically… ill, subject to nervous fevers”(Weiner 83). Victor is shown to focus directly on his work, causing him to forget most of the outside world and not be influenced by forces that usually comfort and heal him. His work makes Victor subject to nervous fevers, causing himself to become sick more often and need help from family and friends more often. Although the process of creating the monster was physically taxing on Victor, the end product caused him even more pain. The creation of the creature impaired

In “Consider the Lobster,” by Davide Foster Wallace, Wallace argues that preference is defined as something personal that relates to suffering. He presents the idea that preferences are not enough to make moral decisions. The author begins this essay by describing the Maine Lobster Festival and all its festivities, followed by what a lobster is and its anatomy, and concludes with whether or not they feel pain through their suffering. Wallace does this to convey the message that lobsters are living creatures who do in fact have a preference. If something feels pain, it has a preference, and this something that lobsters have. Preference varies between every living creature, and no single creature could feel the pain or know preference another feels or has. An example provided in the text is when a worm is cut in two, after they are sliced, their haves carry on; we see no sign of pain but have no idea as to whether the worm would have preferred to remain in tact, rather than in two. When it comes to lobsters however, we do study signs of preference, for example they hook their claws to the rims of a

Victor has become obsessed with studying (something no one should ever be interested in) and has locked himself in his room studying for days on end. He "applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid. My ardour was indeed the astonishment of the students, and my proficiency that of the masters... Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make". (7) This early application of himself is what drove him to become lonely and reclusive, shying away from all who attempted to come into contact with him. He is also inspired in this chapter to start his reanimation project. He becomes consumed in this one project spending many months alone in the top of his apartment assembling his creature. He raided slaughter houses, grave yards, and dissection rooms to furnish what he needed to create his monster. The lines between life and death became blurred

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is book about the importance of human relationships and treating everyone with dignity and respect. The main character of the book is Victor Frankenstein who is a very intelligent man with a desire to create life in another being. After he completes his creation, he is horrified to find that what he has created is a monster. The monster is the ugliest, most disgusting creature that he has ever seen. Victor being sickened by his creation allows the monster to run off and become all alone in the world. Throughout Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the theme of human relationships to illustrate the bond that man has with other beings and the need for love and affection. The importance of human relationships

Anitionaly Victor is not interested in hearing about the life story of the monster, however, after begging Victor for his attention he takes notice. The story

     Through the exploration of value attached to friendship in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein';, it is found that Victor, Walton, and the monster each desire a companion to either fall back on during times of misery, to console with, or to learn from. During various periods throughout the novel, it is found that Victor depends heavily on friendship when tragedy occurs to keep him from going insane. Walton desires the friendship of a man to have someone who he can sympathize with. The sole purpose of the monster is to find a companion to learn from and not be a total outcast to society. None of these characters desire to be isolated and when

In this excerpt we learn how Frankenstein changes through the act of kindness of two cottagers. We learn it in a way that we can relate to what he feels. As he observes these people, he realizes that their kind ways actually hide the fact that they’re unhappy with their lives. These two individuals live in poverty and work hard to grow their own food and everything. Their act of kindness moved Frankenstein sensibly because even though these people didn’t live a “good” life, they still acted this way.

Victor wastes no time researching and creating the monster. Stopping him from truly not knowing the monster's full capabilities. Something he would’ve only found in time, but Victor’s ambition and curiosity inhibited him from making a rational creation and chose to abandon it. Victor couldn’t see how he created a feeling. Feelings like fear and loneliness.

It is Victor's story that truly exposes the true theme of the story, with him speaking of his days as a child and his first friendship with the girl his parents adopted. He lives a fine life, full of joy and happiness with friend plentiful. When he goes to college he is without friends, but soon befriends one of the professors and engaged in lengthy conversations with him. This isn't the same friendship as before, lacking the real love and companionship of his family, and he soon begins work on his creation. He so overwhelmed by the idea of creating a perfect person he is blinded from the deformity of the creature. When the creature is finished he examines his work and is mortified by it, running and hiding he escapes the creature that soon wanders away. Soon after Victor becomes sick and deathly, he shuns society and people and is almost dead when his friend Clerval arrives at the college. Clerval nurses Victor back to health, but Victor isn't physically sick, he has just

When Victor created the monster, he did not care, did not feed it, did not provide a home, or teach the things the monster needed to know in life so Victor eventually abandons him. Because of this, the monster becomes lonely and has no one to keep him company so the creature is trying to survive on its own becoming stronger. Victor isolates himself from the world trying to forget he made the monster because he had an obsession for creating life resulting to him becoming ill. Then, Victor tries to sustain himself attempting to live a normal life after William’s death. “No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air” (74). This action has left Victor stuck between his family and being able to live on his own. Finally, Victor tells Robert about a lonely monster he created who ends up being judged by appearance causing Victor himself to feel

The unwavering desire for knowledge may cause the decay of relationships. This idea is displayed as Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist, continually desires to create human life from inanimate materials, which leads to the destruction of many of his relationships. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, exhibits how the constant desire for information may cause the deterioration of relationships through the decayed relationships Victor has with himself, his family, and society.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein examines two phenomena of human nature, scientific curiosity and loneliness; the latter will serve as the focus of this essay. The very manner in which Frankenstein begins, that of the correspondence of an unattached explorer who longs for a companion on his voyage, with no one to write to but his sister, establishes the theme of loneliness immediately.

After finding and talking to the monster, he realizes it just wanted a mate. The monster had tried to make friends with a family he found in the woods, teaching himself to read and write to communicate with them. The family did not want to associate with him and were scared of his appearance; the monster needed someone who had the same appearance and similarities to be his family. Victor had to make a great decision between saving his family and making the monster a family. After losing two people because of something the monster did, he wanted to protect Elizabeth and his father.

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“I felt suddenly, and for the first time during many months, calm and serene joy. I welcomed my friend…” (Shelley 37) shows his happiness when Clervel arrives, for a moment he even forgets the creature he had created. He says: “With this deep consciousness of what they owed to the being to which they had given life… I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control…” (Shelley 16), in which you see how the parent of a child understands that the child needs a caring, loving hand in order to grow up with a caring, loving heart. Victor seems to have forgotten this lesson that his parents taught him when he is repulsed by his creation, of whom he was so sure that “… no father would claim the gratitude of his child as I should so completely…” (Shelley 32), yet he rejects the monster because of its hideous appearance.