Victor Frankenstein : The Creation Of The Monster

Victor became so worried that it caused him to come down with a sickness. Once he was better, he had to go home because his youngest brother was murdered. As soon as he returned home, he knew that it was the monster that did it. However, a close friend of his family was charged and killed for the crime. Victor felt guilty about this. The monster demanded a companion but Victor could not bring himself to make this mistake which angered the monster and he wanted revenge. Victor was now more terrified than ever. He did not know what to do. He tried to find the monster but in the process, the monster murdered his very close friend and he was almost charged with the murder. On the eve of his marriage to his cousin, Victor knew that the monster would show up and harm him. Little did he know that the monster would kill his love. After his father died, Victor had almost no one left. He vowed to spend the rest of his life to find the monster and put an end to his misery. He was unsuccessful and died. He meant well by making the monster, but in the end, it was nothing but a huge problem. He was not good for anything and he ruined Victor’s life.

Through a lifetime of abuse and suffering, all inflicted at the hand of his only paternal figure, the monster still reveals that he did in fact love Victor in his own twisted way. As exclaimed by the monster in the final pages: “I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds” (page 277) In this moment, his confliction, and inclination towards a certain dramatic death in order to now right his own wrongs (ironic, right?) reveals him to be even more human than Victor himself, who can only come to the conclusion that he may hold some affectionate feelings for his own creature, a clear representation of what could be his only child: “His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow” (page

“He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense, will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness.”(161)

In Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster is portrayed as a grotesque abomination. However, as Hopkins states in Contending Forces, the cultural and geographical situations, or lack thereof, in which one matures in play a crucial role in the proper development of one’s mind and brain. The monster is simply a product of circumstance. The lack of social interactions alongside geographical isolation propelled the daemon to be alienated from society, ultimately resulting in a lack of morals and an underdeveloped psyche. By being a culmination of his surroundings and experiences it is revealed that the true monstrous entities are the factors that leave the daemon predisposed to fail in a modern society. Arguably, Victor created a being, while the circumstances that said being was placed in “created” a monster. Shelley purposefully terrorizes the monster with such intensity to provoke and justify the overarching theme in this novel which states that people should not be judged on their physical appearance.

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.

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In Mary Shelley´s Gothic novel, Frankenstein, the Monster once claimed, “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.” Frankenstein, since the 1910 film adaptation, has known a series of several adaptations that changed drastically, not only the plot but one of the main characters, the Monster, from stealing its creator´s name to being portrayed as a cold villain. Though, in the original storyline, the biggest threat to society is the creator itself, the one pretending to play as God, Victor Frankenstein. This essay will discuss the nature of the main characters of the novel and conclude who is the “real monster” in the end.

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.” -Victor Frankenstein

Critic Northrop Frye once commented that "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscapes" (Frye 1). Few characters illustrate this characteristic of a tragic hero better than that of Victors Frankenstein, the protagonist of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His story is one of a brilliant man whose revolutionary ideas brought suffering to himself, his family and friends, and his creation. Victor is an instrument as well as a victim to this suffering throughout his story.

Like most horror stories, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has a wretched monster who terrorizes and kills his victims with ease. However, the story is not as simple as it seems. One increasingly popular view of the true nature of the creature is one of understanding. This sympathetic view is often strengthened by looking at the upbringing of the creature in the harsh world in which he matures much as a child would. With no friends or even a true father, the creature can be said to be a product of society and its negative views and constant rejections of him. Although this popular view serves to lessen the severity of his crimes in most people’s eyes, the fact remains that the creature is in fact a cold-hearted wretch whose vindictive nature

Tragic hero’s can come in all shapes and sizes. They may appear as a villain in multiple works of literature. In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the tragic hero is the creature. He is a main character whose faults led to his overall downfall. Often, the creature is misinterpreted by people to be named Frankenstein because he is such a prominent character. While the creature is able to identify the faults in mankind it is only after extreme suffering on his own part.

The Creation in Frankenstein did not owe Victor anything. Victor did the monster wrong by creating him in the first place. The monster went through so many hardships by being an outcast and a looser. But to top it all off he felt abandoned and lost because when his creator first saw him he freaked out and ran away and locked himself in his room. So the Creations reasons were justified because he felt abandoned by his creator, alone or an outcast, and was given nothing to help him survive or enjoy life.

Man vs. Education: The Rise and Fall of Victor Frankenstein “My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention, because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery” (Shelley 184). Dr. Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist and a person whose ideas can bring both happiness and misery upon others. His ideas bring to life a being that sends his life into turmoil. Much like scientists in real life, they struggle with whatever knowledge they can grasp onto as well as temper with other beings, humans or animals, to defy the works of other brilliant scientists to prove their own theories correct. The only problem is that the education they possess shows that they have no idea of the outcome of their

It is vital that you know who the real monster in the Frankenstein book, Victor Frankenstein is the number one contender for this position. He creates a monster, but who knows if the actual monster he created is the true monster in this story. In later chapters the true monster is revealed, Victor Frankenstein takes fault for the deaths of Justine, William, and Henry even though he wasn’t the actual cause of their death. Although the monster was created by Victor, he is still horrid and disgusted by how his monsters look and abandons his creation because of his unpleasant demeanor. Victor didn’t accept the monster and decided to avoid coming into contact with the monster, woefully the monster later commits an evil act and kills Justine

He intends to create a beautiful creature that he could show off to the world and be proud of. Instead, as he learns, the monster is quite the opposite, and has a wretched, rugged, and horrifying appearance(42). Horrified by his creation, Victor runs away and leaves the monster on its own(43). By the time Victor gets back to his house, the monster is gone(46). As the monster retells his story to Victor, the reader learns the result of Victor abandoning his creation.