The Role Of Destruction In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

To begin, Victor betrays nature with the physical creation of the monster. Upon giving the creature life, Victor becomes horrified of what he had created and essentially left the creature in fear. It is nature’s responsibility to create life, not mankind. Since Victor gives the monster life, he has created something unnatural and he himself even admits his mistake when he states, “I have created a monster.” To make matters worse, Victor had left his creation on its own when the monster had no prior experience in the world and was learning everything from this point on. The monster, at this point, reflected the innocent nature of a child and needed to be taught properly about life. Victor’s

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. .

Perhaps the most important takeaway from Frankenstein is the causes of the evil actions of the characters, specifically Dr. Frankenstein and his creature. When isolated or rejected, each character resorts to violence and acts of ill-intention. Isolation and rejection are painful states of being, and even sub-human creations react to them poorly. Victor Frankenstein frequently projects his feelings as a result of the isolation he feels in quotes such as this: “…the shades of my murdered friends heard and approved my devotion; but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance.” (Shelley 218). He explains that his mind shifts to thought of evil when he ponders how he lost his friends and family, proving Shelley’s opinion on the harms of isolation. Victors creature falls victim to violence in response to isolation as well. Following William’s rejection of the monster, declaring him a “…monster! Ugly wretch!” and an “ogre,” the monster strangles him (150). Both Victor and his creation experience moments

Victor Frankenstein is a very cowardly man. He is unable to stand up to mistakes and problems that occur in his life. Instead of facing dilemmas V. Frankenstein runs away. In the beginning of chapter five after he has brought life to his creature he expresses his cowardliness “I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation… the beauty of the dream vanished… Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room” (Shelley 42) V. Frankenstein’s inability to deal with problems is atrocious, instead of comprising a plan about his creature, he simply runs in fear unable to fix his mistakes. The consequence of not dealing with his creation V. Frankenstein faces for being a coward not only affects him, but it affects his family. When his brother,

Victor Frankenstein was not only a scientist, but also a creator, and father. He brought his creature to life, but then instead of putting its visual misfortune aside, he ran from it, out of fear. This is similar to Boo Radley in “To Kill A Mockingbird” in the sense that people immediately fear things that do not look like themselves. All of that aside Frankenstein should have helped his creation to understand the world before casting it out. With the circumstances given to him, the creature did the best he could.

He leaves the Creature with no one to support him when he needs it the most. Because of Frankenstein, the Creature is now alone and is forced to fend for himself in a world that he knows nothing about. The Creature has a very low chance for survival on his own, and this could have been prevented by Frankenstein. This is very cruel of him to leave the Creature in such an awful position. However, when Frankenstein leaves the Creature stranded on his own, he is not doing so intentionally. He has already proven his dedication to the Creature, but once he is formed, Frankenstein cannot handle everything that just occurred. He can only process enough to realize his own emotions at the time, and act on them, which causes him to run. Frankenstein is not trying to hurt the Creature on purpose, even though this is an outcome of his actions.

Victor abandoned the monster both emotionally and physically. Physically he avoided the monster as much as he could and as often. “Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall.” (Shelley, 10.87). Frankenstein would rather be vanquished by an eight-foot tall monster than to communicate with the abomination of his own creation. He was hesitant to give the monster a chance. Victor spent his life running from him while his family and friends felt the fatalities as they were picked off one by one. Had Victor given the creature a chance or listened to the creature, he might not have had to live his life in fear. “`Hateful day

Frankenstein's quick surrender of his animal is a definitive wellspring of the majority of the inconveniences in the book. The surrender turns the animal free to be followed up on and rejected by an antagonistic human culture. The animal gets to be undermined by the constant dismissal of him by society, it can be surmised that his characteristically great character would be protected and fortified on the off chance that it was met with prompt sympathy and graciousness. Frankenstein focuses out that he is bound by an obligation to his animal in a matter of seconds before his demise. He says "In an attack of eager franticness I made a judicious animal, and was bound towards him, to guarantee, as far was in my energy, his satisfaction and prosperity" (pg 219). Frankenstein breaks this obligation of obligation, dismissing his animal's bliss and prosperity in full. Through Frankenstein's own words, Shelley is showing that the careless flippancy of the researcher towards his revelations, information, and creation can prompt the terrifying results which the researcher Frankenstein

One’s nature has always influenced his or her actions. Everyone has his or her unique attitude but there are different attributes that make up one’s attitude. Arrogance, overconfidence, greed, selfishness, selflessness, benevolence, and fear are among these attributes. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley empowers her characters with these attributes. In the gothic novel Frankenstein, the character Victor creates a creature in order to fulfill his ambitions. This creature is abandoned by Victor, which causes the creature to be overwhelmed with loneliness. Everyone judges the creature by his appearance and this causes the creature to disdain his master. The creature murders Victor’s family and later both of them duel each other in order

The novel Frankenstein includes a disturbed and conflicted protagonist that journeys through his haunted years of when he first created what was thought to be his masterpiece but eventually turned to be his nemesis. Throughout the story there are multiple instances where the Monster tortures his creator; However, there are an equal number of times where Victor does not show pity towards his creation which leads his artificial offspring to destruction. Victor was driven to create life for the achievement not the joy of being a parent. When the Monster was animated Frankenstein immediately shunned his creation. On his journey of revenge he eyes the Monster and instead of reconciling he curses the time of its existence.

Imagine the reader’s family dying from a monster the reader decided to create. The regret of having to live through everyone’s hate and judgement, even though the reader was not the one killing, but the monster the reader gave life to was, as Victor did with the creature. The outcome of what others think will remain the same. The outcome might have been different if the creature had not been created in the first place. Victor’s bad decision was just the beginning of the rest of his life.

The story of Frankenstein showed three sides to the story, Victor's, the creature's, and the truth. The book was mainly based on Victor's perspective where he feels more hatred and antipathy with very little sympathy towards the creature. The author included little scenes with a huge part of the creature's side of the story that made readers feel pity for him. After all the controversial arguments, the is the correct side of the story and that is the truth. I believe that the author wanted the readers to decide whether to feel antipathy or sympathy towards the creature because both Victor and the creature have fault in what they've done. For every "right doing", came either disappointment or anger which always led to someone taking out their

At face value The Monster and Victor in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are polar opposites; Victor being an innocent victim of his curiosity and the creatures rage, while the creature himself is nothing more than a vengeful animal. As the novel progresses however we see a phase shift in the balance of good and evil, changing back and forth between the two characters revealing a lack of innocence in both of them. Moreover when the text is analyzed on a deeper level the coherence between Frankenstein and his Creation become more apparent; for example they both find their individual reason for existing within each other’s obsession.

Frankenstein is an exact image of human behavior. As humans, we created the ideas we imagine within our heads. But when those ideas don’t turn out the way we want them to or we do not like

One major fault in humanity is the controversy and conflict over who claims responsibility when things go wrong. Elaborate and often dysfunctional court systems have been established over time to offer legal answers to the questions of responsibility however, even these are insufficient and controversial. In her gothic novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley utilizes mystery and horror to chronicle the story of a creator and his responsibility to his creation. Shelley develops questions of responsibility by examining just how much responsibility the creator has to its creation and how much responsibility the creation has to its creator. The lack of understanding and agreement over the answers to these questions causes conflict in the novel and continues to cause conflict to this day as the figure of Frankenstein emerges as the symbolic embodiment of social problems.