The Wave Frankenstein Quotes

Knowledge plays an incredibly large part of Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein. I think that Victor’s obsessive and unhealthy search for knowledge is the true cause of his suffering. Not only does he neglect his friends and family while working to create the monster he puts his own health in danger. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.” In this quote we see that Victor stops at nothing to find if he would be successful with his creation. Victor has made this project such a main priority that once it is completed and the creature comes to life he does not know what to do. Since Victor has met his goals and done what he said he wanted to do he does not want to deal with the being he just created so this becomes a problem for him. We see that Victor was very troubled by this whole experience when he says, “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.”

Victor decided to destroy both the female creature and his promise with the wretch after listing to himself the unknown possibilities that could become the a threat to the human race as he states, ''she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate...might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation... They might even hate each other... She also might turn with disgust from him...'' (Volume lll , Chapter 3, page 136) The indecisiveness of the outcome was put to an end once Victor concluded that it is a threat to not only him, but to the rest of the world.

Manfred tells us how he perceives his fate and expresses feelings similar to those of Victor. Manfred feels doomed in his cruse and after several attempts to escape it sees no other option than death itself. Victor perceives the same for himself in the later half of Frankenstein.

Chapter 9 of Foster’s book is all about the weather and how it affects the story. Foster claims that “weather is never just weather” (Foster, 70). As he says this, he also explains how rain carries a deeper meaning when it is presented in a setting, and that is the same for fog, lightning, and sunshine. In Frankenstein, weather promotes a deeper meaning when Victor’s brother dies. Victor exclaims, “William, dear angel! This is thy funeral, this thy dirge...a flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me: its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity,” (Shelley, 77). This quote shows how a scary scene is accompanied by lightning to add to the spookiness. This

Letter 1 Explain what is established in the first passage/letter who is narrating? Why is he making this voyage? When and where is this taking place? To whom is he writing the letter?

The existence of fate and free will also play a huge part of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Shelley uses the foil characters of Victor and his monster to illustrate the differences between the beliefs in fate versus free will. While Victor Frankenstein listened to his professor speak on the powers of modern science, Frankenstein feels as if the professor’s words were “the words of fate”, that they prompted him to find the secrets of creation, and that that day “decided [his] future destiny” (Shelley 27-29). This quote prepares the audience for the upcoming events and that to Victor, those events were fully prompted by fate. Victor uses the existence of fate to rationalize his actions which helps the audience understand his motives more thoroughly. This quote also features a slippery slope

The lightning “shock” relates to the overall motif as an ironic moment of destruction. In the medical field, shocks are associated with reviving the heart. Defibrillators are used to revive lives by sending a brief electric shock straight to the heart. But Frankenstein is not being revived by an electric shock; instead, he is losing life. After Justine died, Frankenstein felt a heavy blanket of guilt, “I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt” (Shelley 61). It weighed on him; as a result, he became really sick and depressed. The irony is that in the medical field, electricity is used to cure sickness, but Frankenstein was afflicted with disease in the presence of an electric allusion. The destruction was a physical decline in

The Creature begins to show curiosity as soon as he is created. He starts to observe the people and see that their actions are slightly different than his and he learns everyone has their own way of doing everything. Eventually the creature starts to gain interest in the way humans communicate and he strives to learn to communicate with them. The creature learns to speak through small lessons that he observes given to Agatha from Felix. “My days were spent in close attention, that i might more speedily master the language” (Shelley 50). As the Creature is learning how to speak he also is catching on to learning to read. “I also learned the science of letters as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field for wonder and delight.” (Shelley

Throughout Shelley’s work, the creature struggles to conform to society, alone from his first moments - abandoned by his creator - he is given no proper upbringing, and abhorred by society. He grows up in hiding and fear, his only interactions with others ending in violence. Hence, seems only natural that his desperate need to conform would lead to violence. The need to “belong” is an essential “human” desire, however this sense of belonging his completely dependent on one’s upbringing.

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, we discover that the search for now knowledge has a good and a bad side. Suffering is something we all go through at some point. We try to avoid it but our search for knowledge will always lead to suffering. In Frankenstein Victor had set out on a search for knowledge, he was relentless. His search consumed all his time, destroyed relationships, and lead to the death of not only himself but his friends and family. All of those negative effects originated from the monster Victor had created on his search for knowledge. Although Victor may have achieved his end goal, at what cost did this come to? Victor’s search

"Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother" (tears came into his eyes as he spoke); "but is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society." (78)

Romanticim "During this short voyage i saw the lightnings playing on the summit of Mount Blanc in the most beautiful figures" Through the use of imagery, the quote evokes the very image of lightning and the natural environment, representing nature's ability to capture the individual through the beauty of nature. "Vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire" Realising that the creature is the cause of Williams death, Frankenstein's emotions of rage are reflected within the quote as he compares the scene before him as "a vast sheet of fire". Fire connotes ideas of hell and rage, thus his mood if reflected by the quote. however the fact that even in this situation, he is 'dazzled'

Frankenstein’s monster is created through the desire of Victor Frankenstein to have control. He wants superior control over supernatural phenomenons, and attempts to successfully create life. “ To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death”, Victor narrates. The quote is provided within the novel to prove his natural drive for success, as well as his obsessive need for control. The monster, a mess of deceased flesh and bones, is created through this inherent desire of control. Victor moved away from his family to go to a university, proving his need for control in his own life. His desire of control over life in general created the monster, which ultimately

In most people’s minds as of today, there is no question to who the monster is in Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein. It is the creature that Viktor Frankenstein created, that murders innocent people. However, when looking beyond the appearance of the creature, it is evident that he did not begin as a monster. Mary Shelley analyzes fundamental and crucial issues in her novel in terms of being able to use science and knowledge for the good of people and not for the satisfaction of personal ambitions without even being able to take responsibility for that. It is also the novel of social rejection based on external looks and inability to accept. It was the extreme misconceptions of humans that resulted in the extreme isolation of Frankenstein’s

Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.