Taking responsibility is “the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management” (dictionary.com). When you decide to take the responsibility of something or someone then do it to your greatest ability and do not leave any stones unturned. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley determines the role of responsibility for the welfare, acts, the deaths and the lives of others. Taking responsibility means being accountable for your actions, accepting the mistakes and taking the ownership of the mistakes that come along with one’s actions. Taking responsibility does not mean that all the actions will go as planned but accepting the consequences even if they do not go …show more content…
in a good way. Mary Shelley tries to bring the challenges that come along when someone does not take the responsibility of his or her own actions in the novel of Frankenstein. For example, Victor Frankenstein is a character in the novel who is a scientist and creates a creature within which he does not have the ability to take the responsibility and in the end, it leads to the massive murders of the people around and his beloved ones. In the novel, Shelly tries to bring the consequences brought by responsibility not being taken of one’s own actions, for example in the case of Frankenstein’s creature he created from his scientific work. He neglects it in the first place and the creature changes his perspective and behavior towards human beings. Responsibility plays a big role because if Frankenstein could have taken the responsibility of the creature then it could be very friendly to human beings and find it a family (Fin, 1). The problem came along when the creature realized that the owner, the god and the creator do not take the responsibility and neglect it. When Frankenstein neglected the creature it found very difficult to love and get loved in the process. Reaching a point where the creator himself does not take the good care then it finds the world a brutal place. In the whole novel, the epitome of the problems is because of the incapacity of the scientist Victor Frankenstein to accomplish and perform the obligations he I supposed to perform in the fast place. Lack of response from the creator leads to changing the behavior and how it portrays human beings. It is important to the responsibility of one’s actions or less there will be hard consequences from the ignorance. Due to lack of response from the creator who is Frankenstein, the creature’s life does not go on well, it is faced with brutality and lack of care from the surrounding environment.
It is even shot while helping the human fraternity in that the treatment drives it to be brutal and becomes vengeful. The treatment he receives from the people around him is brutal and it makes him lonely (Halpern, 52). He does not receive the care and the love every creature needs to have from the surrounding environment. The creator who is Victor Frankenstein abandons the creature to the brutality of the people around to the extent of people shooting it not because it has done bad actions but it was helping the people around. The problem is due to lacking care from the creator who deviates from the responsibility of taking care and showing the love and care as a result of the decision he took from animating …show more content…
it. From the novel, it is clear that the change of behavior from the creature and the bad perception towards the human beings is because of the neglecting of the responsibility by Victor Frankenstein who is the creator. If he could show the creature the love and the care he needed, then it could have a good perception towards the normal people since he could see them as loving and caring. The evidence of the brutal nature of the creature after the neglecting of the responsibility from the creator who is the god to him is when the creature kills William and frames Justin who is the servant from the house of Frankenstein , he takes the life of William because the creature believes as much as he is related to the creator who abandoned the responsibility of taking care of it then he will be just the same as other people out there who are not loving and brutal in that they shot him when they came across the creature helping the people around(Nagy, 9). He says Frankenstein is one of his enemies that he has sworn to have a revenge that is eternal and he will be his fast victim, from the statement it is clear that Frankenstein must have been the first person to cause the problem the creature is passing through at the moment. From the case then we understand the revenge originates from the creator not being able to be able to be answerable and taking care of the responsibilities. Death occurs due to abandoning of the responsibility, from the creator who is his god, he comes up with a series of death revenge missions to show neglect and the abandoning of the creator together with the people whom he tried to help. The responsibility of the employer is to take care of the creature by showing love and care, from which the creator abandoned the responsibility. Several revenge missions were planned to show how he is upset. The fast revenge mission was killing the bother to Victor Frankenstein since before the creature performing the revenge he made it clear that Frankenstein will be among his eternal enemies (Schwartz, 5). After killing William, he framed Justin who is the servant of the creator Frankenstein, the creator saw what had happened but did nothing from the incidence. That murder is when the creature killed Elizabeth who was going to wed Frankenstein the master and the god just to revenge the actions passed to him. The deaths occur due to the neglecting of the responsibilities which the creator is unable to be answerable to the actions. Victor in the fast place tries to appreciate the creator’s duty because he is the creator.
In the process, victor neglects the artificial duties from the animated man. The creature finds it difficult to thrive in rejection from the other human beings and the creator himself and makes it lonely. From the incidences, we find that he went ahead to look for the family that is surrogate and just look for one who will sympathize with him and accepts him to be one of his families since the creator who is supposed to do so has neglected the responsibility (Haynes, 1). He wanted a family that will be proud and binds their lives with his away from the brutality that he is getting from the surrounding environment. He adopted a family imaginatively from the cottagers that he observes from far their domestic harmony. He attaches himself to the family calling them the cottagers in that he identified himself with them as protectors and my
friends. The cottagers neglected him too in that the creature saw that even the people that hold him in the world have abandoned him. All the problems result from the abandoning of the responsibility from the creator, he recognized that the condition of the human is defined by mutual dependence, interconnectedness, and the responsibility. The main reason for the creature’s revenge is not to kill or torment the human fraternity but to show the creator to get back to the responsibility he has neglected in the fast place (Van, 137). The consequences of his actions are mild and he needs proper guidance in order to know the importance of the responsibilities he has to undertake for good mutual friend. However, in victors continues the way of confession towards toward being the murderer of William clearly shows he is responsible for his actions and the cause of the murder from the creature he created. He paradoxically admits the problem he has brought to the world because of neglecting the responsibility by not guiding and taking care of the creature in the process. Victor remains with no choice but to take the responsibility of the creature he has created and enslaved him. He is now not able to control the results of his actions and his own will effects. He is responsible for his poor actions since the consequences are mild and have a lot of effects in the fast place. In conclusion, the novel by shelly shows the role responsibility plays in Frankenstein by showing a series of events that have happened when victor does not take the responsibility for his own actions. Fast victor is a scientist and a creator who has created the creature and abandons his responsibility of taking care of the creature he has created in the fast place. However, he neglects it and does not take good care of it by showing him the love, care and the closeness he needs to experience. The creature goes on to wonder looking for a family that will accommodate him the way he is and he is abandoned too. From the problems he has encountered he wants to revenge because the creator does not give him the responsibility.
When Victor flees the creature, he becomes lonely and unhappy. He rejects his own works. If he stayed and taught him the creature would at least have a chance of happiness. When the monster flees to the cottagers he learns about human nature. He quotes “I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protector had departed and broken the only link that held me to th...
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves” is a quote from Chinese philosopher, Confucius, that immaculately describes the knowledge the characters in the story of Frankenstein lacked. In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, creates a creature whom he abandons soon after. After the abandonment the creature gets treated horribly by other humans, feeling alone in a world where there was no other like him. This causes the creature to feel hate towards his creator, whom he continuously tries to seek revenge from. The desire for revenge transforms the creature into a true monster that has no feelings or aspirations beyond destroying Victor, leading to his miserable death.
The thirst for power and knowledge is what drives the characters in this novel. Victor Frankenstein comes off as a sincere person but only because of the state in which we find him but, overall he is driven by his work and his appetite for power and knowledge. Dr. Frankenstein is a man crazed with his own ambition that recklessly desires the god-like powers of creation. In the beginning of the novel, the audience does not have a lot of information on Victor. The reader’s first impression on Victor is that he is vulnerable, weak, and favorable but something about him was just not right. The audience’s opinion differed from Walton’s, for example in this quote: “My affection for my guest increases every day. He excites at once my admiration and
Victor never even fathomed the actual existence of the creature, somewhat resembling an unplanned pregnancy that was never emotionally and rationally dealt with even after the actual birth of the child. He certainly did not adequately prepare himself for parenthood.
After killing his younger brother, Elizabeth , and his best friend, Victor after having no family left wanted to put an end to it all so he ended up chasing his creation and dying before catching it. After bringing the creature into this world and leaving it behind to fend for itself the creature endured lots of agony and pain from society which drove its rage to Victor and his family and he ended up kill this younger brother and soon to be wife. Both were isolated from society, Victor brought isolation upon himself through locking himself up to create the creature and ignoring everything around him as stated in the article, “The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest, or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage: but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature. And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence disquieted them; and I well-remembered the words of my father: "I know that while you are pleased with yourself, you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.” As
Victor is so engulfed by his work that he is unaware of what is going on around him. He “bore onwards [with his work], like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success” and he wants to “pour a torrent of light into our dark world" (Shelley 55). Blinded by his yearning for making new discoveries, Victor thinks that his knowledge of the sciences will be enough for him to be successful. However, he does not understand that in order to create an auspicious relationship between him and his creation, he needs to have knowledge of society as well. Once his creation is animated, Victor is unable to see that all the creature wants is to be loved and accepted. The creature craves the maternal love that Victor denies him. From the beginning, Victor is unable to realize the significance of his creation. He describes how the creature’s “yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath... [and] his hair was of a lustrous black... [and] his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips” (Shelley 58). He immediately focuses on the negative features of his creation, and does not even attempt to learn the positive qualities. If Victor uses more social skills, rather than his knowledge of the sciences to manage his creation, all of the destruction the creation causes could have been
The creature later went on a journey looking for his creator, he wanted partner to be with him since he was the only one of his kind plus the people hated him. He wanted a partner whom he could live with and not feel alone in this world. When they first encounter themselves victor was amazed by his creation but once again victor did not wanted to see.” Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence, which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants
Social and Individual Responsibility in Frankenstein Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein in a time of wonder. The main wonder was whether you could put life back into the dead. Close to the topic of bringing life back into the dead was whether you could create your own being, like selective breeding, but a bit more powerful. Close to where Mary lived, there was a man named Vultair who was experimenting with putting electricity through frogs to see if they could come back to life. With that going on close to her, as well as the fear of a revolution and the pressure on her to think of a ghost story, it is not surprising she thought of a horror story that would still be popular in the 21st Century.
...s creation as a way of revenge and payback for all the distress he brought to the creature. The creature, beginning as the most innocent, is alienated by his creator and every individual who witnesses his presence. Finally, Victor isolates himself from his beloved ones in order to fulfill his ambitions. All these misfortunes are caused by the lack of moral decision making. Unfortunately, these decisions ruined the life of many people involved in Victor’s life. All these events are the proof of what people’s actions can result into when isolation is a major theme in one’s life.
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly explores the concept of the body, life, ‘the self’ and most of importantly humanity, which is repeatedly questioned throughout the novel. The definition of humanity is the quality of being humane or in other words someone that can feel or possess compassion. Despite all the facts against the “monster” in “Frankenstein” he is indeed what one would consider being human. Humanity isn’t just about ones physical appearance but also includes intellect and emotion. Some people argue that the “monster” is not a human for he was not a creature that was born from “God” or from a human body. That being said, the “monster” is not only able to speak different languages, he can also show empathy - one of many distinct traits that set humans apart from the animals. Both the “monster” and his creator, Victor, hold anger and feel a sense of suffering throughout the novel. Victor is a good person with good intentions just like most individuals, but makes the mistake of getting swept up into his passion of science and without thinking of the consequences he creates a “monster”. After completing his science project, he attempts to move forward with his life, however his past – i.e., the “monster” continues to follow and someone haunt him. While one shouldn’t fault or place blame on Frankenstein for his mistakes, you also can’t help but feel somewhat sympathetic for the creature. Frankenstein just wants to feel accepted and loved, he can’t help the way he treats people for he’s only mimicking how people have treated him, which in most cases solely based on his appearance. Unlike most of the monsters we are exposed to in films past and present, the character of the “monster” ...
In the book Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, one main character, Victor Frankenstein creates a monster. Both characters, Frankenstein and the monster become isolated as a result of this event. Isolation can have outcomes or an impact for the future events in the story. Frankenstein's monster is alienated from the "human" society because of his appearance, and that his creator doesn't want him, which leads the monster to go on a killing spree.
The novel Frankenstein demonstrates a connection between taking personal responsibility and the snowball effect. Certain circumstances throughout the novel where responsibility is not taking results in a situation in which something good or bad increased at an exponential rate. An example of this from the story would be when Victor Frankenstein did not take responsibility for the monster and the monster began to unintentionally scare and kill people. If Victor were to take responsibility from the beginning, the majority of the monsters actions could have been avoided, therefore avoiding situations from increasing exponentially. Those who took responsibility were also affected, both physically and mentally. The novel Frankenstein shows a connection
Taking responsibility for one's actions is a hallmark of maturity, leadership, and capability. When one can admit their faults or wrongdoings when they happen, life usually moves along much smoother. Consequences for those who attempt to shift blame off themselves for their own misdeeds tend to be much more severe than those who acknowledge them as their own. In literature, agency is the ability of a character to act on their environment, those who act positively and take responsibility for their actions would be said to have good agency. The absence of this quality can result in large consequences for not only the person lacking in agency, but those around them as well. Victor Frankenstein and Rodion Raskolnikov’s delusions of grandeur, unwillingness
Why are people so keen on taking revenge on those who hurt them or their loved ones? It is a simple question that any person off the street could answer. That answer would probably be something like: people punish those who have hurt them or a loved one because they want to protect whoever or whatever was harmed. Whether it was their ego or their body, it is just in our nature to protect and avenge. Nevertheless, taking revenge or even just seeking it has harmful repercussions. In Frankenstein, the Monster seeks revenge on his creator because he was treated like, well a monster. When in reality, he was a docile creature. He was turned into a monster. But because Frankenstein didn’t have enough sense in his big brain to see that treating the
As Frankenstein became more and more interesting as I read, I notice that there is a lot of different ways acceptance is portrayed, but not all characters are accepted even the most hideous or the most beautiful. Life is too short to hate, so why not accept all? A person should never feel unaccepted because sometimes it could tick something in them and it could make them depressed or maybe even go crazy, so, we shouldn’t judge people based on looks nor life styles.