Victor Frankenstein Similarities

The passion for his work causes him to revert to isolation. Frankenstein mentions that no youth could have passed more happily than mine (Shelley, 67). Furthermore , his parents emphasize to him that it will cause the great distress if he doesn’t get in touch with him. Still Frankenstein still selfishly remains in isolation, despite the great pain he is causing to the ones he loves the most. His choice to remain isolated is what contributes to his monster-like attributes. Frankenstein even sees himself as a monster, can you wonder, that sometimes a kind of insanity possessed me, or that I saw continually about me a multitude of filthy animals inflicting on me incessant torture, that often extorted screams and bitter groans (Shelley, 160). It seems that in this moment, Frankenstein is seeing himself as an isolated

Frankenstein puts the monster into a situation that causes him to be one of a kind. The monster had no one to whom he could relate. Victor thrusts the burden of existence upon the monster by creating him, leaving no route for escape from the situation. Frankenstein causes the monster to live a life in solitude, and the monster realizes the contempt others have for him. The monster feels as if he is no different, and believes he “deserved better treatment”(Shelley 114). Through his observations, the fiend ponders whether his existence is truly that of humanity or rather of “a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned”(Shelley 119). By creating him, Victor forces these hardships upon the monster.

Frankenstein’s creation was lost in the world with no one who could have understood him . It felt sorrowful and unfulfilled emotions as seen in this quote. Betrayal by Victor leaves a large impact the monster carried, which, turned into a monster full of hate and dissatisfaction. Victor’s creation was not a monster , but new born baby in a grown horrific body that was not to be called his own . It becomes a monster both mentally and physically, who will be feared by all . Victor not giving him the love he needed gets the monster enraged, which leads the monster to cause series of events that affects Victor unforgivably. .

In the book, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the author illustrates similarities between both Victor and the Monster he creates. She draws parallels between the two regarding their feelings on family, nature, on exacting revenge, and how they both become isolated from society. Both are able to demonstrate extreme intelligence. As the novel progresses, Victor and the Monster become more similar to each other. Their relationship turns to one in which each is consumed with getting revenge on the other at all costs.

     Though education in this novel helps to form some of the bonds between characters the bonds that do not form play an important role in Frankenstein. The most prevalent relationship that does not ever truly form is that between the Victor and his creation. Victor, during his making of the creature, is so proud and infatuated with the idea of what he is bringing to the world; but when life flows through the veins of the creature Victor is terrified and abandons him. He could not stand to see the wretch of a being that he created. Before the creature was alive he was beautiful to Victor. This abandonment set the relationship out on thin ice in the beginning. Victor had no one to tell him how to handle the problem and take care of the creature so in turn he ran from the creature. This situation is like that of a parent but Victor's idea was more of possession, ownership, and success of the creation itself. Victor's character was not one that could cope with what he has done.

Victor pursuit of desiring to build a creature makes it seem as if he was an evil and mad scientist. Shelley demonstrates Victors madness by saying “a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward; [he] seemed to have lost all soul and sensation but for this, one pursuit” (55). This reveals that because Victor was emotionally attached to his creation, he was willing to have sleepless nights just to create a creature. Victor is beginning to show signs of madness scientist because he starts to lock himself up trying to bring this hideous monster to life. Because Victor starts to “lock himself up in his apartment” Shelley makes it seems as if Victor is turning into a mad man and evil scientist (52). Victor’s fundamental quest for knowledge leads to his isolation because he locked himself in his apartment for 6 years without having any connect with his family in Geneva and becoming so fanatical with creating the monster he craved for in his

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, illustrates an interesting story focusing in on many different themes, but what most readers may miss, is the similarities between Victor Frankenstein and the creature he created. As the story develops, one may pick up on these similarities more and more. This is portrayed through their feelings of isolation, thirst for revenge, their bold attempt to play god, and also their hunger to obtain knowledge. These are all displayed through a series of both the actions and the words of Frankenstein and his creature.

Some people see Frankenstein and his creature as complete opposites, but they are not as different as they may seem. Victor and his creature have no mother figure in the novel. Victor’s mother was there for Victor in the beginning but “resigned cheerfully to death… she died calmly” (Shelley 53), whereas the creature was born without one. Therefore, throughout the novel, both Victor and the creature have to depend on their fathers for guidance. Frankenstein and the creature are both intelligent. Frankenstein gains his intelligence through his schooling and experience, while the creature gains intelligence through observations, experience, and “Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter” (Shelley 155). These characters want to be accepted in the world. Frankenstein wants to be accepted in the

Emotional isolation in Frankenstein is the most pertinent and prevailing theme throughout the novel.  This theme is so important because everything the monster does or feels directly relates to his poignant seclusion.  The effects of this terrible burden have progressively damaging results upon the monster, and indirectly cause him to act out his frustrations on the innocent.  The monster's emotional isolation makes him gradually turn worse and worse until evil fully prevails.  This theme perpetuates from Mary Shelley's personal life and problems with her father and husband, which carry on into the work and make it more realistic.(Mellor 32)  During the time she was writing this novel, she was experiencing the emotional pangs of her

In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein and his creature are alike, yet different, as people and as monsters. Not many people see the plot twist in this story, but it is the thing that's stood out most to me when I read this. Most people i talk to say that the creature is the monster in this book, but I don't see it like that. I my point of view, I see victor Frankenstein as the monster. I say this because I found more reasons that he his the monster and also found the similarities outweigh the differences.

Victor Frankenstein is in many ways more monstrous than the monster he created. Victor and his creation demonstrate a thesis-antithesis correspondence wherein they reflect opposite character traits. Victor has no sense of empathy or compassion, whereas the monster, although hideous and rejected by society as an outcast, has

Two major themes that can be seen in Frankenstein are isolation and knowledge, the two themes pair together nicely. Both Victor and his creation become isolated from society, however one difference can be drawn between the two; in the beginning Frankenstein chooses become isolated from the rest of society whereas his creation deeply desires to be

In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portrays different viewpoints that set the tone throughout her book. Each of the viewpoints from both Victor and the creature has an effect on the conflict. She contrasts the story of Victor with how the creature grew up and why the creature acted as a monster throughout the book. The lack of acceptance, empathy, guidance, communication, and the fact that the creature did not have a name all contribute to the central conflict. The fact that looking at the story through the eyes of not only Victor, but the creature, helps to fabricate the structure of the novel and supports the saying that all stories have more than

Victor feels that his relentless search for more knowledge is the cause for all of his suffering. It is true that his knowledge is what created the creature, but what made things worse is that he never gave the creature what he needed, so the neglected creature set out to find it himself. Victor’s tragic fate was not the result of his knowledge but because he did not take care of his creature. 6. Foreshadowing is seen multiple times such as the night when Victor sees lightning strike down a tree and Victor is fascinated with how much power the lighting has. The monster also foreshadows his own death when saying, “But soon I shall die.. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames..” 7. By not giving his creation a name, Victor didn’t give his creature an identity or a place in society. In society, a person’s name is who they are, people make their own judgment of people right away. The creature didn’t have a name and people judged him right away and identified him as monster and only that, rather than an actual being. 8. During the period in which Frankenstein was written, science was growing and it was seen as anything could be possible with the new research and

In particular, the motif of the Double, or Doppelgänger, very popular in nineteenth-century gothic fiction, is central to the parallels drawn between the Monster and Victor, in Frankenstein. In modern society, there is a popular tendency to refer to Frankenstein as the monster, or vice versa, reflecting the use of the motif. In this case, the monster represents Victor’s hidden inner desires and unexpressed psychic needs that stem from his brutal pathos for success, glory and knowledge. Thus, in Victor’s attempt to realize this ambition, he gave form and shape to his deepest fears; his desires. Through the rejection of the parameters set by society and humanity, Victor gives in to his egomaniac god complex seen throughout the novel. Specifically while consciously creating an abnormal being, which appalled him, but still enthralled him, "…often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion." Hence, by giving life to the monster, Victor created a manifestation of his suppressed self, stating, "I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch" , being vague whether this refers to the creature itself, or the manifestation of his dark, disturbing desires, hinting that the two are similar, and creating a link between them. Thus, following Freud’s theory of the structure of the human psyche, the creature becomes a human form of Victor’s id, with the first proof of the connection shown in the monster’s need to fulfill the most basic urges such as anger, thirst, hunger, and sex immediately, regardless of possible consequences, "I longed to obtain food and shelter,” as explained in Freud’s theory . He is now seen as a human being in the eyes of basic psychology, and can be thus seen as a plausible