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    Victor Frankenstein he talks about his family history, and childhood. Frankenstein tell him about his sister/ lover Elizabeth Lavenze describes his relationship with her. Elizabeth was Victor’s cousin, the daughter of Alphonse’s sister, when Victor was four years old, Elizabeth’s mother dies and Elizabeth is adopted into the Frankenstein family (fake reason). The real story came about Caroline went on a trip to Italy, when Victor was only five year old, and she found Elizabeth. Caroline was visiting

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    Frankenstein is about a man from Geneva named Victor Frankenstein. He is a smart man, who at a young age, becomes very interested in natural philosophy. His parents, Caroline Beaufort and Alphonse Frankenstein loved him more than anything in the world; he was an only child for several years. However, one day Victor’s mother, Caroline, adopted Elizabeth Lavenza. Caroline fell in love with Elizabeth’s looks when she saw her on the streets of Paris; Victor and Elizabeth were set to be married when they

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    People are not truly good at heart “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” These words were spoken by Anne Frank. She wrote these words in her diary in the attic of her father’s business. She was hiding from the Nazi’s, and hid among several other people in a confined area. Anne thought that everyone was truly good-hearted. She sadly died in a concentration camp about a year later.The truth is people are not good at heart. People are selfish, they are

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    “It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways” (Buddha). Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a science fiction novel about knowledge. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein spends years creating a creature from dead bodies. Upon the completion of his project, he immediately abandons the creature leaving him to discover humanity on his own. In Mary Shelley's novel, both Frankenstein and his creature are on a search for knowledge, though the quest is executed in opposite ways:

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein uses Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who has become mentally unstable due to his obsession with of creating life in unnatural circumstances. and The Monster, the stitched up creature made and abandoned by Victor, comes to who curses and questions his very existence. This outcome causes the reader , to explore many psychological and philosophical conundrums. Victor’s obsession to create life becomes reality creating The Monster but his obsession soon turns to utter

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    Mary Shelley’s literary masterpiece Frankenstein relates the story of Victor Frankenstein and his unnatural creation, told in three distinct narratives, that eventually leads to Frankenstein’s disastrous end. One narrative in particular, that of Frankenstein’s creation’s, highlights the creature’s conversion into a true monster rather than an almost human being as a result of a terrible injustice upon him. The access to his narrative allows for a deeper understanding of the creature’s very nature

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    After the death of Frankenstein, the Creature is met face-to-face with Walton, and here the Creature meets his final challenge of communicating and addressing a human who might have compassion for him. Upon seeing and hearing from the Creature, Walton experiences similar reactions as Frankenstein upon first communicating with the Creature. His physical appearance once again stains with utter disgust any attempt at showing benevolence: “Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such

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    Creator In Frankenstein

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    having a positive role model because Victor abandoned him unleashes the “monster” in him and leads to the Creature not knowing what is morally right. Through the portrayal of the “monster” inside the creature, Shelley argues that the role of creator to creation is crucial for proper development. According to Rousseau, everyone is born good, until corrupted by evil. Throughout the book, we see how the Creature was born innocent, but corrupted by evil from Victor abandoning him. The audience sees when

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    Victor becomes so engaged in his scientific creation that he abandons his family and friends to complete the task before him. He becomes obsessed with his goal to the extreme that he fails to realize the negative effect it has on his health. When the creation was complete, “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled his heart”(Shelly 70). The creation is let free to roam the town due to fear and Victor becomes extremely ill thinking about

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    the course of the novel. As we read the novel, I had notice that Victor Frankenstein's plans and goals had changed as the novel came to an end. The Novel takes place in the Frozen Wastelands in the 1800s. Victor Frankenstein was born in Naples, and moved to Geneva with his family when his brother William was born. Nowhere in the novel is the setting more significant than in the Arctic scenes, where the novel begins and ends. Victor has quite literally chased his monster to the ends of the earth,

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