Examples Of Ambition In Frankenstein

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Every human is born with ambition, but not every human has morals and foresight. Those peoples ambitions are usually wrong and hurtful. As humans, we want to achieve goals and better ourselves but sometimes our goals hinder us instead. In Mary Shelley’s modern drama Frankenstein, we see ambitions slowly destroy you Victor’s life because of his lack of foresight and morality. Without foresight and morality, ambitions could be hurtful and destructive.

In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is consistently reckless and does not care about the consequences, who he hurts or if what he is doing is wrong. Victor is so ambitious about resurrecting a body he does not think about any consequences. When Elizabeth and Henry visit Victor, Victor denies them and tells them he has to work on his experiments. Elizabeth and Henry are hurt that Victor is choosing science above going out with them. This encounter shows us that Victor's ambitions are his number one priority in life, and he will focus on them before anything else. When Victor and Fritz first start up the machine, Fritz shuts everything down because he realizes that what they are doing is wrong. …show more content…

Victor ignored the creature and pretended that he did not exist. Eventually the creature matured and wanted to search out his maker. The creature becomes angered when it realized that his maker has abandoned him and does not want him. In pursuit of Victor the creature kills Victor’s brother, William. Victor loses all ambition and hope he had about the resurrection of the creature, but the creature gains ambition. He wants to make Victor love and accept him. The creature sets his mind on the goal of acceptance and will do anything to achieve it. In Act 2 of Frankenstein the creature kills the gamekeeper, William and Fritz to show Victor that he is important. The creature is proving that ambition without morals and foresight hurts those closest to

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