Victor Frankenstein 's 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. .

“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

(Shelley). The fact that Frankenstein fled from his creation very shortly after it came to life, proves how he refused to accept his obligations and responsibilities after his creature was created. ?The [creature] is Frankenstein?s abandoned child? (Mellor Abandonment 357). It is unfair to bring something into the world, and then not teach it how to survive. Victor was intimidated by his hideous characteristics and felt threatened by the creature. He did not know his creation at all, so he had no right to judge him. This is an example of how various people and society place too much judgment on physical appearance. The creature had just come into the world for the first time, and the first thing he saw was his creator screaming for his life as a result of his appearance. This traumatized the creation, and caused him to seek revenge on Frankenstein. This novel shows how when people are prejudice against physical deformity or ugliness, it automatically characterizes that person as bad or monstrous (Halberstam 59). Victor was the one who gave him these characteristics; so in fact, he is to blame for the creature?s appearance being so monstrous.

Growing up in a world learning a set of rules that are taught by love ones and then being push out of the world by following them. In Mary Shelley 's life, she grew up listening to her father 's rules then being looked down upon by being with someone she loved. She is young and is trying to find herself in the world. The story Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley looks through the three characters of Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature. The characters each have a different goal to achieve. When they achieve that goal, gaining the knowledge will either improve their well being or turn into a disaster. In Shelley 's Frankenstein, the attainment of knowledge does improve and corrupt each of the characters through the perspective of literary allusion, science, and Gothic horror.

Science is a broad field which covers many aspects of everyday life and existence. Some areas of science include the study of the universe, the environment, dinosaurs, animals, and insects. Another popular science is the study of people and how they function. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is an inspiring scientist that studies the dead. He wants to be the first person to give life to a dead human being. He spends all of his time concentrating on this goal, and gives up his family and friends. When he finally accomplishes this, everything falls apart. So, Victor Frankenstein is to blame for the tragedy, not the monster he has created, because he is the mastermind behind the whole operation, and

As many months pass in the eighteenth century, Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a giant monster out of other deceased humans. As soon as the monster comes to life, the monster was immediately despised by everyone who he had seen, but the monster just wanted a friend. Nobody seemed to be kind enough to accept the monster.

“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on” (Shelley 224). One of the most prevalent cases in literature takes place when a work is influenced heavily by the experiences its author has endured in his or her life. This theme rings true in Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, in the sense that Mary Shelley’s own morose experiences with the death of her children greatly impacts the way in which she writes the story. Her authorship of Frankenstein symbolically depicts an agonizing connection between abortion and its negative effects upon the outlook of society.

In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley tells a story within a story in the 18th century. In the beginning, the story is framed by Robert Walton’s, an English man traveling in the Artic, remanences. Walton begins to narrate a story about a Swiss scientist named Victor Frankenstein. This narrative is terrifying and gruesome due to the horrific events that take place during the story. Frankenstein was a medical student who eventually found himself intrigued with surgical experimentation. Due to his fascination with animation, which soon evolves into an obsession, Frankenstein finds himself in a situation that he was unprepared for. In all his “success,” Frankenstein realized that his experimental outcome is too much for him to handle; even though Frankenstein is knowledgeable when it comes to the medical field, his lack of morals leaves him in sad isolation. Which was carried out by no other than his own creation, the creature he had reanimated himself. However, many critics tend to sympathize with the creature despite his actions to destroy Frankenstein’s life. Even though the creature executed terrifying actions, he was raised by a selfish man with no concern for his life. The Creature was created with an innocent child-like mind in the beginning. Nevertheless, the creature had an appearance that was scary and too much for the public to handle, including his own creator Frankenstein. Frankenstein abandons his creature and deprives him of nurturing actions. For this

In many books and stories the monster is portrayed as a mysterious, awful, powerful and inhuman creature created for numerous reasons. In one story the monster was created so that the creator could prove that he could make life and be just like God or be a God, in another no one knows the origin of the monster as a fact making the stories merely legions. Additionally, there was even a story about a man who didn’t want to feel any empathy for the crimes he committed so he created his own special kind of monster, himself. All of these monsters have very strange abilities that make them seem unreal and very inhuman yet also very believable at the same time, thus why they are such good stories, but over the year’s big movie industries such as

Haskell Moore, a fictional character from the 2012 movie Cloud Atlas, once said, “There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well.” In other words, people who attempt to overstep the limitations placed on man by a greater being will undoubtedly feel the negative effects of their actions. This theme rings especially true in Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic novel, Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein boldly endeavors to find the secret of life and the key to cheating death through scientific means. When Victor’s countless experiments eventually find “success” in the artificial creation and animation of the Monster, it is revealed that his discovery oversteps the world’s natural boundaries, as it leads to the horrific destruction of everything he loves. Through the creation of the Monster, Victor’s subsequent downfall, and the interactions that the two characters have with their surroundings, Shelley explains how the natural and unnatural influence human understanding and behavior.

I was nearly blinded when I first looked into the eyes of this beast. Strangely, the wolf almost seemed to glow with a brilliant light when I saw him. His bright blue eyes and radiant, white fur seemed whiter than the snow itself. A large rabbit lay clenched firmly between the wolf’s sturdy maws. It started to growl again as I stood there, fear-stricken. I wasn’t quite sure what to do at this particular moment other than to stand still, and hope the wolf would lose interest.

The main characters in Frankenstein are Victor Frankenstein and the Monster. Victor Frankenstein is a determined person who takes pride into learning natural philosophy. He is a motivated person who works nonstop and never gave up on creating his creation. “These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour. My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emanciated with confinement. Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize” (page 44). Frankenstein is a noble savage who starts off as a kind monster in the beginning of his existence and then turns into a revengeful monster towards the end of the story by hurting Victor’s loved ones. He is a caring person when it comes to looking

Today I will be discussing one of the main characters, Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein, by the respected author, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein, commonly mistaken for The Monster, was a well brought up caring son in Geneva. However, even though Frankenstein seemed like a reliable person, his self centered personality got into the way of him reaching his sincere potential. In other words, the University of Ingolstadt graduate began his studies in science and fed his addiction to the creation of The Monster, despite the recent death of his mother. As it states in chapter three “My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate

Frankenstein expresses Shelley's personal fears correlated to the death of her first child. This is rationalized in Victor Frankenstein's obvious failure in parenting.  Much like a mother, Frankenstein labors on the creation of his child for approximately nine months he. Finally, all his effort came to life when he “saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open” (51). Instead of caring for his child, Victor rushes out of the room, disgusted by the abnormality of his creation. When the creature follows after him, Victor runs away in horror entirely abandoning his child. He never considered how such a creature would be able to exist with human beings. Frankenstein did not take time with the features either and created a being with a horrifying appearance. Unable to accept his creation, Victor abandons his child and all parental responsibility. He even wishes death upon his creation. “I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed” (112). This quote displays the regret Frankenstein is experiencing. Here, Victor is finally realizing the consequences of his actions. Without creating the creature, Victor would not be facing the deaths and pain experiencing in that moment.

Mary Shelley describes how the behaviors of the characters in the story led to their downfall. In Frankenstein, the main character, Victor Frankenstein is very irresponsible and naïve. His creation, the monster is hideous and hopeless. When Victor was a young child, science was his favorite subject because he was fascinated with experiments. He enjoyed and continued reading outdated books by Agrippa to expand his knowledge in science, even though his father discouraged him to do so. Victor was determined to fulfill his desires because he wanted to create his own innovation that would benefit society. After Victor had become a student at the University of Ingolstadt, he locked himself in the laboratory and worked hard to prove his theory on creating human life. When his creation was nothing like Victor imagined, the start of his self-destruction begins. While both humans and machines rely heavily on information to acquire knowledge, machines are more sensible under any circumstances.