Victor Frankenstein Research Paper

The once admirable and loving tone Victor once had for his creation quickly changes to becoming mortified as his dreams has turned into a living nightmare. Instead of seeing the creature he fell in love with at first he now sees a hideous monster. The creature scared Victor to the extent that he “escaped and rushed downstairs” as he escapes to the courtyard to hide from the creature. Victor took every precaution, “ catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life”. The creature had become so frightening to the point that it had become a disgrace to Victor’s eye.

The enormous difference in the way Victor views the creature before and after its completion shows that he has an altered state of mind while he works on it. As a result of Victor’s secrecy about his creation, he sacrifices his health and happiness to make a creature that disgusts him.

The creature from Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" displays many different human qualities. Some of these qualities include: the creature's ability to learn, his capability to feel pain, his desire to be accepted, and his need for affection and sympathy. The need for affection and sympathy is something which the creature is unable to attain. This unrequited desire to be accepted causes the creature to be the victim of the novel. The creature is never given affection by human society because of his physical deformities, Dr. Frankenstein's denial to create him a mate, and the creature's violent behaviour.

   Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, sheds light on the importance of appearance through the tale of an unwanted creation that is never given a chance by society. Ironically, the supposed beast was initially much more compassionate and thoughtful than his creator, until his romantic and innocent view of the human race was diminished by the cruelty and injustice he unduly bore. Not only does the creature suffer the prejudice of an appearance-based society, but other situations and characters in the novel force the reader to reflect their own hasty judgment. The semi- gothic novel includes several instances of societal prejudice that include the isolation and outcast of Frankenstein's creation,

The monster may be ugly, but then all in all deep down he’s just a lovely guy who just wants somebody to love. “At the same time all the nice people in the book such as Elizabeth, Safie, Felix, and Agatha are also beautiful and the monster may start out good, but then after a while he sure doesn’t waste time becoming a murderer”(website). With both of these aspects there’s a point to each side due to he is trying to find love on the inside but then he is secretly wanting to kill someone.

The monster did not look like everyone else.”It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candles was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs”. His essential features were not human like. This made others not like him that well. He was different and as not much has changed people still do not like those who are different. “But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my creature I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimidated that the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations”(166). This shows how much Victor regretted creating his monster. He feared for his family's life, but now he has to face it and face how much he messed

Victor, after being convinced to create a female companion for the monster, realizes that this will only create double the amount of destruction, he then makes the choice to discontinue his project to prevent more devastation. Instead of less damage resulting from this choice it only brings more harm to his life and everyone around him. First, his good friend Henry Clerval is murdered by the beast and Victor is accused of this murder, “The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.” (Shelley 129). This was Victor’s reaction upon seeing Henry’s corpse and demonstrates how deeply his pursuit for knowledge affects him. Even though he is later released on circumstantial evidence, he will be scarred for life knowing that he responsible for yet another death. Given that Victor destroyed the monster’s only hope of having someone else like him in the world; the monster swears revenge and that he will return on Victor’s wedding night. Victor misinterpreted this warning and instead of the monster attacking Victor, his creation attacked and

This time Victor allows the creature to approach him. After some time the creature demands a female companion and it is only with pity and much argumentation that Victor consents. While the creature watches, Victor begins working on the female monster and then he destroys it. Victor, by doing this, is ignoring the creature's feelings and breaking his promise. Therefore, Victor Frankenstein, after much hard work, rejects his own creation due to its monstrosity.

“ I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body” (60). While in reality in his eyes he creates a monster with different skin tones and colors which seems to dissatisfy him“skin is yellow and his hair was black” (57). Instead of nourishing and being non judgemental of his physical attributes Victor abandons the Creature to fend for himself despite that the Creature has no sense of ability to live on his own. Victor’s judgements only comes from the Creature's physical attributes in which in his eyes is a complete failure of being ugly. Scholar Daniel Cotton also agrees that the physical attributes of the Creature plays pivotal role in Victor's expectations.

Society, as a whole, thrives the concepts of all things uniform and orderly. Examples of this effect are everywhere, from the songs played on the radio, to what clothing styles are sold more in stores. This concept of regularity has a profound effect on judgments made on people, due to physical appearance, personality, and other factors that make each individual, individual. Beauty, vanity, always wanting to be the next size slimmer, have almost always been around in modern culture, even in the 1800s. Some novels truly show how an appearance, in particular, can have an impact on how a person is treated, and how that individual starts to treat themselves. In the novel Frankenstein, one major cause of the monster's isolation and change in personality

He was brought into the world with no one to give him knowledge, support, and guidance. He was completely deserted by his creator. When he tried to make friends, everyone either ran away from him or tried to kill him. Calridge states, “At the time of his first violent act, he is merely seeking fellowship with another human, and he assumes little William, the “beautiful child” so unlike himself, to be too young to have formed prejudices based on appearance. Enraged to the point of murder…” This statement shows how everything the creature feels or does stems back to Victor. If Victor had just accepted and loved his creature for what he was, then he wouldn’t have killed little William or any of Victor’s other loved ones. His rejection and misfortune was not caused by his actions, but rather his appearance, a physical trait that Victor had created and the creature could not change. The creature's problem was that he was “ugly” and “deformed”, but he did not choose to be physically deformed. Victor created him that way. Thus, Victor is ultimately responsible for the creature's rejection.

In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein creates a creature, stronger and better than humans in every way except his looks. After Frankenstein abandons him, the Creature meets the De Lacey’s, a nice little family that indirectly teach him how to read and write. In truth, the Creature only becomes a monster after the hatred that Felix, one of the De Lacey’s, shows him. Before, he had done nothing wrong, but afterwards, all he did was fall down a slippery slope.

He imagined renewing life where death devoted the body to corruption. Victor made an outcast in the community for his own needs or experiment with immortal life. He thought life and death what an ideal bounds so he wanted to break through it.(51) Victor creates a creature that will never know how to love. Victor get hostile the very moment the creature he created is born even though the creature had nothing to do with his physical appearance or how he reacts and has not yet proven himself to be a “monster”.

Nevertheless, Victor remains more focused on attaining a “godlike” status and cannot fulfil his parental role towards his creature. “Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again” (Shelley 106) Analysis: Evidence: “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness, which I had entrained but a few moments before, gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” (Shelley 143). Although the

Mary Shelley is an English writer and was born on the 30th of August 1797, in London. She was known for publishing the book “Frankenstein”. She married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. She also wrote several books including Valperga, The Last Man, and the autobiographical Lodore. She died of brain cancer on the 1st of February 1851, in her place of birth, London.