Victor Frankenstein Madness 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.

Questioning is a natural human instinct. We do this when we are unsure of a situation or thing. Another human instinct is lying. We often lie to protect ourselves or others. Guilt is a human emotion that you experience when you know you have done something wrong.

person to unleash such a terror on the world to benefit only himself and his

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?

Mary Shelley makes us question who really the “monster” is. Is it the creature or Victor? While the creature does commit murder, he does not understand the consequences of his actions. He is like an infant who is unfortunately left to learn about the workings of society, and his place in it, on his own. He has no companions and feels a great sense of loneliness and abandonment. The creature voices his frustration and anger and seems to try to project his feelings of guilt onto Victor, as if to show him that he is the ultimate cause of the creature’s misery while he is simply the victim of Victor’s manic impulse. Shelley utilizes words, phrases, and specific tones when the creature vents his misery to Victor and this evokes, amongst the

As the rising action continues, Russell demonstrates that Susan is still possessed by a demonic creature but begins to gain control by interpreting the truth of her past to Father Sargent and the Bishop. Firstly, when Susan is in the house with her father, she stands up and is ready to leave:

Justice is perhaps something everyone looks for in life. The term “justice” can be carried and played out greatly by a character of a classic novel, Modern Prometheus, or Frankenstein. The daemon, as he is called throughout the novel, seeks to find himself a place in the world while being rejected by society. In his struggle to find that companionship, he seeks justice in a form of revenge against his creator in an unpredictable, yet triumphant manner.

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)

In Chapter 7 of The Wave, Christy Ross asks her husband Ben, “So how is your experiment going, Dr. Frankenstein? Have your monsters turned on you yet?” In the novel The Wave, Ben Ross is a high school teacher who begins an experiment called “The Wave” to demonstrate to his students how Germans went along with Adolf Hitler’s heinous plan to start World War II. In voicing this statement about Ben Ross’s experiment, Christy Ross compares Ben Ross to Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who is a fictional scientist in the novel Frankenstein, compares Ben Ross’s students to monsters, and compares Victor Frankenstein’s endeavor in creating a monster to Ben Ross’s experiment in recreating an example of life in Nazi Germany.

In the novel Frankenstein, rejection/ acceptance plays a major role in, not only Victor and the creature’s actions, but everyone that interacts with them. This theme plays a role in almost all of the creature’s actions, ranging from the burning down of the cottage, to the mass killing spree. Also, this theme plays a major role in Victor’s actions because he grew up being widely accepted, so it therefore forces him to see how the other side of the spectrum lives. Thus, this is an appropriate theme for this book.

He was alienated because he looked like a monster. “Treat a person ill and he will become wicked.” (P.B. Shelley) The result of his alienation from society was very damaging to the Creature’s development. The Creature’s view of humanity became very twisted. “But Paradise Lost… I read it, as I read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands as a true history.” (Shelley 117) Paradise Lost is a novel of a human’s descent into hell. The book is to be taken as a metaphor because it involves Adam and Eve, angels, devils, Satan, etc. The Creature reads this as literal and comes to believe that all humans are horrible people. He does not believe this at first, but after getting ran off by the de Laceys, his view of humanity begins to take this shape. After rescuing the little girl, the Creature is shot by the father of the girl because he thinks that the Creature is trying to drown his girl. The Creature is enraged by this and soon after being shot stumbles upon William Frankenstein. William is in the woods and the Creature hears William say that he is Victor’s youngest brother. Enraged upon hearing this, the Creature strangles William to death. The Creature tells Victor that all he wanted to do was to quiet William. However, the Creature feels good and powerful inside when he is strangling Victor. This is the Creature’s climax. This point on in the novel, the Creature is

Mary Shelley’s creature is most like the envious Lucifer, who was stricken from Heaven for his envy of his creator. Lucifer was cast from Heaven, permitted to do as he pleased while God went about his business. The creature was also abandoned by his creator after he viewed the creature. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep” (Shelley 43). When Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the creature, views his monster he finds it grotesque and appalling. Rushing out of the room, Frankenstein leaves the creature to do as it pleases. Because he did not have anyone to look up to, the creature leaves and runs off into the winter