Victor Frankenstein Character Analysis

Friends will determine the direction and quality of your life. Loneliness is a battle that all people will once face at a certain point in their life; it is how they handle it that determines the outcome of that battle. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein loneliness is the most significant and prevailing theme throughout the entire novel. Shelley takes her readers on a wild journey that shows how loneliness can end in tragedy.

    In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley combines three separate stories involving three different characters--Walton, Victor, and Frankenstein's monster. Though the reader is hearing the stories through Walton's perspective, Walton strives for accuracy in relating the details, as he says, "I have resolved every night,...to record, as nearly as possible in his [Victor's] own words, what he has related during the day" (Shelley 37). Shelley's shift in point of view allows for direct comparison and contrast between the characters, as the reader hears their stories through the use of first person. As the reader compares the monster's circumstances to those of Victor and Walton, the reader's

In Mary Shelley’s 1831 novel, Frankenstein, there are several smaller characters that help to move the plot forward. Perhaps the most influential character to Victor Frankenstein’s life is Elizabeth Lavenza, his doomed fiancé. By the end of the novel, her character serves as the final tool for Victor Frankenstein to be able to understand his creature.

Like any novel, all characters all have purpose. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the characters are extremely noteworthy. Robert Walton and the Creature happen to be my most loved two. They both add to what makes Victor Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein. The three characters go as an inseparable unit. Robert and the Creature are great foil characters to Victor in the novel. Robert plays a part that is both parallel while differentiating to Victor's character. Robert is more powerful in his part of being a foil character to Victor. He instructs the most essential lesson/theme in the novel. Mary Shelley clarifies to the reader that the respect that that originates from ambition and discovery as imperative to the people you may hurt. She does

Indirect Quote: Bilbo understood on page 52, that going ahead made him leave behind safety and comfort which were mostly found in his hobbit-hole. (p.52)

From the early chapters of the novel, Victor narrates a childhood, schooling, and career filled with an unstoppable thirst for learning. He pours over books in youth, and later attends university studying meticulously and eventually coming to a

In Frankenstein, the author depicts three different points of view. First, Robert Walton who is a captain on an artic expedition boat. Second, Victor Frankenstein who discovered the secret of life and created applied it and third, the Creature that Victor Frankenstein created. These narrators describe the creation, the life and the end of the Creature. When Victor Frankenstein first creates the Creature, he regards him as a catastrophe instead of the child (Shelley 21) that Victor wanted him to be. His creator views him as unhuman even though the Creature may be the most human person in this novel by the examples of what being human is within the book appearance-wise, education-wise, and morally.

• 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).

Fictionally, the greatest-written villains in history possess attributes that give them cause for their behavior, with the most universal and essential of these core traits being a deep, personal backstory behind their acts. For instance, in classic stories like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Monster presents thorough reason to its Creator in terms of why it has turned to wickedness. The Monster does not kill purely for the sake of being evil, its actions are resulted from its desire to be loved by man, yet failing at every attempt to achieve it. Motivation behind monstrous acts is necessary in works of fiction because non-fictionally, people labeled as monsters by society possesses motivation behind their actions as well, whether it be

Ambition is the foundation of success, it drives people to strive for something better, gives them the dedication to improve themselves and their circumstances. Mary Shelley’s character Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenstein” started off as a very ambitious kid yearning for knowledge. However, the line between ambition, obsession, and pride is oftentimes blurred as Victor’s was. Once ambition turns into obsession and pride, it can be a downwards spiral that leads to misfortune and isolation.

   In the novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the characters have been portrayed effectively. Much of the interactions between characters, and characteristics of the characters have been based on events which have occurred in Shelley's own life, or they represent what she believes is important. For example, Victor is portrayed as having a strong passion for science, and a poor understanding of relationships. Elizabeth is shown as a stereotypical woman of the time, who is also very powerless. The monster is depicted as being both beautiful and ugly, and someone who the reader feels sympathetic towards. Through the portrayal of her characters, Shelley has created a very effective

Justine, in turn, does something similar. She stays within her domestic sphere, tending to the Frankenstein house and acting as a caretaker to William. Overall, she is a dutiful member of society. It is because of this that the monster decides to frame her “because I am forever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone. The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!”

Explore the ways Mary Shelley presents the character of the monster in Frankenstein We are prepared for the arrival of the monster in many different ways, before he is created we know the monster is going to be a repulsive figure of a human being, but the reader is still intrigued into reading further, and because of Shelley's descriptive language we already feel disgust towards victors creation, and in doing so, we our-selves become just as callous as those people in the book that neglect Frankenstein's monster. Also because the monster was created by Victor using parts dug up from graves and morgues, and we associate graveyards with horror and death, there is immediately something sinister about the monster and to a

One is defined by various categories. Whether one’s identity is delineated by race, gender, or social status, one may ask themselves “Who are you?” In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the protagonist Othello struggles with his status as an outsider. Even the closest of his friends and loved ones are questioned. His right hand man Iago manipulates, confuses, and mentally tortures Othello to the extent that he questions the fidelity of his partner, Desdemona. Self-identity for Othello becomes murky as the waters are tainted with lies and deception. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a state of perplection is palpable with regards to the question “Who are you?”. The main character, Victor Frankenstein, creates a “monster” using parts of unearthed corpses. Once conscious, the monster struggles with who he is as he is forced unnaturally into society. In this case one is not questioning loyalty, but the mere fact of humanity: What makes someone a human being? The interpretations of “Who are you?” is multifaceted, as the characters in both novels reflect inwardly on what defines them and what others think they are. Individual's’ self-identity fluctuates throughout their lives due to varying circumstances.

Within this novel, our main character is the scientist Victor Frankenstein. His curiosity and will to make the dead, well become alive, is what drives him to want to succeed. His never ending curiosity of the fundamentals of the human body has kept him pushing further, even losing sleep and his health decline. He strives to feed that will, and when he does in fact succeed, he is astonished at to what he has created, but appalled by its looks and inhuman demeanor.