Victor Frankenstein Analysis

Victor Frankenstein: Victor Frankenstein, is the protagonist who describes his life to Robert Walton. In my opinion, Victor shows his ambition, logic and intelligence. His ambition is displayed as he is determined and dedicated to his work that when he starts to work on a creation. Therefore, he moves away from his family as he segregates himself from the society. He continues to work on the creature

Select a novel or play in which a tragic figure functions as an instrument of the suffering of others. Then write an essay in which you explain how the suffering brought upon others by that figure contributes to the tragic vision of the work as a whole.

The human brain while complex, initiating every impulse that controls the body, can be simplified. Simple things such as memories, beliefs, or passions can define the decisions that a person makes. The impulses of humanity may cloud a person’s logic, while each person’s logic, in turn, may affect the impulses of humanity. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is overflowing with emotionally based decisions. Her text can be further observed when looking through a psychoanalytic lense with a hint of New Criticism, and searching for the root of emotion in outside texts such as the book of Genesis and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Brackett

Many upon many of times the creature being seized between darkness and the light. He was intelligent enough to know he was wrong to do these murders, and in the resulting end, he rid his horrid sight from the eyes of man. The creature sympathies for whom he does not know.

Frankenstein has a perfect childhood in Switzerland, with a loving family that even adopted orphans in need, including the beautiful Elizabeth, who soon becomes Victor's closest friend, confidante, and love. Victor also has a caring and wonderful best friend, Henry Clerval. Just before Victor turns seventeen and goes to study at the University at Ingoldstadt, his mother dies of scarlet fever. At Ingolstadt, Victor dives into "natural philosophy" with a passion, studying the secrets of life

In the beginning of Mary Shelly’s book, Frankenstein, the main character Victor Frankenstein describes his family background, his childhood memory, and Elizabeth Lavenza, who was his childhood companion. Elizabeth and Victor grew up together as best friends. As a teenager, Victor becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the natural world. He had also witnessed the destructive power of nature, when a lightning destroys a tree near his house during a storm. Later on, a modern natural philosopher associated with the Frankenstein family explains to Victor that the workings of electricity, creating the ideas of the pseudoscientists seem outdated and worthless.

The Creature challenges Victor that he will take “revenge [of his] injuries; If [he] cannot inspire love,” then he “will cause fear, and chiefly towards [his] arch-enemy,” who is Victor Frankenstein and he also swears an “inextinguishable hatred” for his creator. (Shelley 177). Misery and hatred, caused by repeated rejection turns the Creature from his benevolent state of love to a state of hatred. According to Caldwell, “it is the creature’s ‘father’ himself who is primarily responsible for his life and well-being, and it is his ‘father’ who abandons him.” Victor is the source of his anger, and he only kills the friends and lovers whose deaths will bring Victor the most

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

Victor Frankenstein spent two years digging through graves and charnel-houses making a monster and giving life to his creation. Victor did horrible things to reanimate his Creature. “Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses” (Shelley 38). While visiting and pillaging morgues isn't quite evil, it is certainly suspicious and immoral. We have to keep in mind, these are people’s bodies he’s stealing. Their loved ones are preparing their bodies for burial, a sacred right in most cultures; Victor was busy dissecting them without permission. He freely admits that what he was doing was wrong, he reflected: “often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation” (Shelley 41). Victor’s victims were not only the recently deceased and their family. “Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the

• Victor is born into a privileged life, as his family is one of the most distinguished in Geneva (18). • Victor stumbles upon volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa while confined in an inn during a family outing, which leads him to becoming infatuated with natural philosophy and discovering other writers such as Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus, thus molding him into a disciple of science (22). • A thunderstorm decimated a tree with lightning outside of Victor’s home, which sparked an interest in electricity (24). • Victor’s mother dies of scarlet fever when he was 17, which possibly led to his obsession with the creation of life (25). • Victor goes to the University of Ingolstadt to continue his studies, where he remembers two professors in particular: M. Krempe and M. Waldman, the former of which berated his previous knowledge of natural philosophy and the latter of which being of a more benevolent nature (28).

The lack of an origin causes the monster to exhibit characteristics of Satan. While talking to Victor the Monster states, “Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”(81). The monster demonstrates feelings of betrayal and abandonment as he is seen by Victor as a lesser being due to his “fallen angel”(81) status. A continuous reference to Adam demonstrates the Monsters desire to be loved by Victor for being a successful creation. However, the Monster faces reality in that he was abandoned, since Victor was “unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created”(44). The Monster’s expulsion from Victor’s life fuels his insecurities as he begins to “considered Satan as the fitter emblem of [his] condition”(110). Victor’s abandonment parallels to the story of Satan as he was cast out of heaven by God, similarly to how the Monster was cast out of Victor’s life. Not only, does the Monster take on the name of Satan, but also a few of the

Chapter one was an introduction to his life. His mother went through a traumatizing time and his father helped her get through it, and they eventually got married. They didn’t care that they were so far apart in age, they thought that it just brought them closer together. Once Frankenstein was born his mother and father fell in love with him, his mother thought that he was essentially an angel sent from heaven. For a while, they never had any other child except for him.

The Significance of Chapter 5 in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Works Cited Not Included This essay will consider the significance of Chapter five to the rest of the novel, and look at how Mary Shelley's life has influenced her writing. I am going to focus mainly on Chapter five, but first I am going to consider some important aspects of the preceding chapters. In Chapter one Victor describes how his mother and father met and how he and Elizabeth where brought together.

     Frankenstein, an epistolary novel by Mary Shelley, deals with epistemology, is divided into three volumes, each taking place at a distinct time. Volume I highlights the correspondence in letters between Robert Walton, an Arctic seafarer, and his sister, Margaret Saville. Walton's letters to Margaret basically explain his expedition at sea and introduce Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist of the novel. Volume II is essentially Frankenstein's narrative, told in his point of view, with much action, death, and many more characters. There are a few chapters within this volume in which the monster narrates his adventures while alone. Volume III displays Victor's

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a literary classic that tells a story of a young scientist Victor Frankenstein who created a monster that tries to live in society but is rejected. The monster will later seek revenge by going after his creator. In this essay I will be evaluating two critiques about the novel. Beginning with Professor Naomi Hetherington’s critique and the second critique written by Professor Sherry Ginn.