How Is Victor Newton's First Law Related To Frankenstein

John Stuart Mill once said “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” This would indicate that every person has a responsibility to help those around them, and that we are all interwoven in how we learn and grow. This also indicates that by not doing anything, we are making a choice that henceforth causes a reaction. Explore how this relates to Victor Frankenstein and his initial treatment of Adam/The Creature.

First I am going to explore a few theories. Murphy’s Law States that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Throughout my short but bountiful life, I have learned that nearly every possible negative outcome is definitely a

possibility. As teenagers, sometimes we think that we are invincible. Are our actions important in the grand scheme of things? When we are young, we feel everything so deeply. Everything feels like the end of the world yet sometimes we deny the fact that our actions hold consequences. Yet the decisions we make when we are young impact the most. But we are still so quick to make hefty decisions that not only impact the outcome of our lives, but others. We do not always stop being selfish to think that the things we decide to do can touch others’ lives. We see in Victor Frankenstein’s childhood that he has a pretty good upbringing. Otherwise his fascination for death and what makes people tick and operate, he is a fairly normal child. His family life is good and he even gets “gifted” with Elizabeth. We don’t see his life implode until he grows older and becomes more in control of his life and decisions. He doesn’t really make any life altering decisions until he is older.
The next theory I would like to discuss in juxtapose to Frankenstein is Newton’s First Law of Motion.

Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform in a straight line unless acted upon by an unknown force. We all have a path to take. No matter what religion you believe in or if you believe we are governed by the stars, as Victor Frankenstein did as stated on pg 33 “When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life—the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars, and ready to envelope me”, we all have a path we are determined to follow. There are forks in the road and different decisions to be made, and there a million different paths we can take, but they are there. There are many different things that can come along and sway our paths. An object in motion, our lives in motion, will remain on a path unless acted upon by an outside force, which could make us choose a decision that could alter everything. Victor Frankenstein made a choice to go against the laws of nature and create something that set off a drastic chain of events that affected not only his personal life, but everyone’s life he was involved

with.
Now I would like to discuss Newton’s Second Law. The second law explains how the velocity of an object changes when it’s subjected to an outside force. We may like to believe that our decisions only affect us in the long run, but every decision we make affects those lives intertwined with ours. Victor Frankenstein had an insatiable desire to create and then destroy. He was fascinated with the life in someone’s eyes and how that could all be gone in an instant. He created a being whose life he expected to control. He was the outside force of everyone’s lives.
Lastly, the third law of motion.

Newton states in his third law that for every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. Human nature is typically selfish, especially in today’s society. Before everyone makes a decision, they typically think How is this going to affect me? How is this going to change me? How will it benefit me? Will it change things for better or for worse? As people, we are always looking for an easy, positive solution. But what about others? What about the things we say and do affecting other people’s lives? Everything that we do as people is filtered through what others are going through and perceived in their own way based on that. Victor Frankenstein, when he played God, did not think for one second the consequences he could unload. As he created Adam, he did not fathom the idea of losing control. He was on the quest for the ultimate knowledge, the ultimate power, for omnipotence. This was his creation and he called the shots. He created something against nature and created an equal and opposite reaction in nature that changed his life

forever.
Victor did not hurt anyone. He did not murder anyone with his own hands. He made the Creature, forged him in the heat and pressure of the world into existence. Was he aware that his creation was dangerous? Victor could plead ignorance, but the fear he expressed when he saw the Creature proved that he was something to be afraid of. If Victor was afraid of his own creation, how did he think people unknown to the monster would feel? Did he have any inkling in his mind that the Creature was dangerous? Victor built him to be bigger and stronger than man, so he wasn’t ignorant to what he brought into the world. Victor did not kill William, or Elizabeth, but by creating the monster is he just as guilty? Victor did not kill anyone but he created a being capable of mass destruction. Victor felt remorseful and even blamed himself for all the deaths his Monster caused. Does that make him any less guilty? His creation repented his murders and was also crushed under the weight of the crimes he committed and the lives he stole. Does this make him any less guilty? Who is to blame? Personally, I think they can both be held responsible. Victor forged this creature into existence and abandoned him out of fear of the unknown. No one taught the Creature his name, how to speak, how to read, how to write, how to act, how to love. He was thrown into a hell he didn’t choose, a heaven if only he were normal. He knew what he was doing, but Victor chose to play God and never taught the Creature what the first sin was or the Ten Commandments. The world was the apple the
Creature was never taught not to eat.
Lucifer’s name means bright star, morning star, first glow on the horizon. Does he know what the first sin was? I think it was pride that undid us, imagining we could be as wise as the God that made us. Satan was prideful too, was he not? Same as Victor; prideful and ego-driven at the thought of being as wise and omnipotent as God. There are so many parables about lost sheep. Did he ever get to put heaven under his feet? Lucifer was more human than he was angel. God only knows that Victor too was full of sin. Did he have bad blood he didn’t choose, a brain set to a different station, a body made from the failures of past mistakes? God only knows he had a home he ran from. It’s better the hell we choose than the heaven where we were born wrong.