Plan of development: Victor Frankenstein is a man full monstrous attributes and his self-absorbed mind is seen through his actions. He also demonstrates moral irresponsibility for the duration of the novel. Lastly, Victor is depicted as a cruel man with nothing but himself as his main objective. Victor Frankenstein’s
Thesis: In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor’s narcissistic personality inspires his monstrous actions which inadvertently cause nothing but destruction to himself and others; this suggests that a real monster is one who selfishly puts his or her needs before the needs of others, regardless of the cost. Topic Sentence: Victor`s downfall is all due to himself not thinking others
Point1 : Victor demonstrates how he is
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Context + Proof1: Upon finishing his creation, Victor sees how atrocious looking the being he made was. After years of working on the creation, he was not satisfied “but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and a breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (59).
Comment1: Victor made his creation looking somewhat like a human and of great stature but the creature did not yet know language and emotions. However, Victor runs away because he is not pleased with his creation. He did not think of how him deserting the creature would affect the creature. It is like a person having a baby and leaving it to fend for itself until adulthood. Victor did not think about if this creature had feelings or a sense of who or what he was. Victor is so involved in his own problems he abandoned the creature because it was not what he thought it would
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After Victor’s younger brother, William, is murdered Victor visits the spot where he was murdered and sees the creature. He immediately assumed the creature killed his younger brother. Their young servant, Justine, is accused of the murder and is put on trial.
Point2: Victor feels so much despair and guilt over his brother’s death and the trial of Justine. He thinks the monster did the murder but he does not tell anyone because he does not want anyone to think ill of him.
Context + Proof2: He realizes that the death of his brother and soon the death of Justine are his fault as a result from his creation but he chooses not to share this information and spare Justine’s life. “A thousand times rather would I confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have considered as the raving of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me” (85).
Comment2: While Victor knows that the officials would not believe him as the murderer because he was not in town when William was murdered, he also does not want people to think he is crazy for spilling this story of a creature. Additionally, he does not want people to know that he unintentionally killed his
Victor said when he saw the monster before it was alive. Afterwards it was the
...or was not thinking of others in his actions, but only of himself. He did not consider the tumult the abnormally large creature could cause in the world, nor what the feelings of the monster would be towards him if he abandoned him. Victor also did not contemplate the safety of his friends, as he had the chance to stop the creature’s misdoings but failed to do so, risking the life of his friends. Therefore, Victor was a selfish being, who only concerned himself with his wishes and never evaluated the situation of his loved ones, ultimately causing their demise. The misfortunate events that occurred through Victor’s life could have been prevented, and also discontinued when Victor had the chance. However, Victor’s irresponsibility overcame these opportunities and he in turn, caused misfortunes for himself as well as his loved ones.
Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. The tale of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses on the outcome of one man's idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature. Victor Frankenstein was not doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge. Rather, it was his poor parenting of his progeny that lead to his creation's thirst for the vindication of his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and so the creation accuses him for delivering him into a world where he could not ever be entirely received by the people who inhabit it. Not only failing to foresee his faulty idealism, nearing the end of the tale, he embarks upon a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while admitting he himself that it may result in his own doom. The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life holds Victor Frankenstein more accountable for his own death than the creation himself.
Victor’s obsession with the genesis of life prevents him from thinking clearly. Initially, Victor has a strong interest in science. However, during his time at Ingolstadt, when he becomes interested in the cause of the generation of life, he decides to create and animate a human being. He completely neglects his family and friends because his sole focus is on his creation. Victor prioritizes the creation of his creature over his own health and happiness. Since he works in complete secrecy, there is nobody to help him stop his obsession. In addition, there is nobody who can monitor the aesthetic quality of his creation. He is so fixed on completing his project that he fails to notice how ugly it is. As soon as the creature comes to life, Victor is so horrified and disgusted with it that he runs away. He feels like “the beauty of [his] dream [va...
Victor is not able to see past the metaphorical clouds that seem to shroud his mind from seeing the truth. Furthermore, Victor is not able to let go of his hatred for the creature. In contrast, the creature admits, “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless” (275). The creature is able to recognize that he has made mistakes and as a result, he loathes himself.
Despite the rash actions that Victor takes, he ultimately does assume complete responsibility for the creature that he brought into being. After the monster murders William, Justine is then tried for the murder. Victor accepts that it was his fault even though he was not the one that actually murdered him: "But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation" (74). Victor felt as if he had actually murdered both children because he had created the murderer. Even though in the end Justine took the official blame, Victor seized the responsibility so he took steps towards catching the monster and stopping him from killing anyone else. If he was not concerned with it being his fault one way or another he would not have continued to try to put the monster to rest. Later on, while Victor is creating a companion for the monster, he realizes the implications of a second creation: "Had I right, for my own benefit, t...
...most readers tend to sympathize with Frankenstein because of the way in which he is mentally and physically harmed by his creation. However, one must also realize that while Frankenstein is a victim in the novel, he also exhibits features that make him a monster. These monstrous qualities, however, stem from his passion for science and his desire to create life. Not only does the reader criticize and pity Frankenstein, but the reader also empathizes with Frankenstein’s creation. He was unjustly shunned by society because of his physical appearance. On the other hand, the reader realizes that like Frankenstein, the creation can not be sympathized with entirely. He too exhibits traits that make him appear villainous. It is the duality of these two characters that make Frankenstein and his creation two of the most appealing characters of the nineteenth century.
When he finally finishes his research, he is able to bring his creation- the monster, to life. When Victor sees his own creation, and what he has brought to life, he panics. He realizes he has made a huge mistake. “…But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (34). But rather than dealing with that mistake, he abandons it, leaving the monster for dead. The way Victor abandons his creation, is the prime example of bad parenting in the s...
Victor Frankenstein serves as an instrument of suffering of others and contributes to the tragic vision as a whole in this novel. He hurts those surrounding him by his selfish character and his own creation plots against his master due to the lack of happiness and love. The audience should learn from Frankenstein’s tragic life and character to always remain humble. We should never try to take superiority that is not granted to us because like victor we shall suffer and perish. He had the opportunity to make a difference in his life and take responsibility as a creator but his selfishness caused him to die alone just like what he had feared.
Victor went to find out the murderer of his brother William. He has to cross a lake and he sees his monster standing on the bank. He immediately realizes his monster killed his brother but he allows an innocent girl to be convicted. The quote is significant because Victor knows that Justine is innocent. He allows an innocent girl to be convicted because he did not want anyone to know he unleashed a monster on the world. Along with the death of his brother, he has another death on his hands. The importance is that Victor’s monster is responsible for the death of two people and Victor has to live with that guilt. Victor “betrayed” the servant girl by not speaking up for her. He also “betrayed” the monster by running away from it and “betrayed”
At first, Victor believes himself superior to nature, and he builds a creature to prove his dominance. After gathering the information and materials needed to create life, Victor begins to fantasize about what he is about to do. He sees “life and death [as] ideal bounds, which [he] should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into [their] dark world. A new species would bless [him] as its creator and source, many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to [him]” (Shelley 55). Life and death are natural things, but Victor thinks that he can “break through” them and create life. He alone would be the person to “pour a torrent of light into their dark world,” as if he was God, ruling over all of the world. This shows Victor’s lack of respect towards life and how he intends to overcome the boundaries set by nature. Unlike the Romantic who revered and honored nature, Victor wants to use it for his own gain. He expects “happy” and “excellent natures” to obey him, and he doesn’t dwell upon the consequences of his actions. His outlook changes after the Creature comes to life. As Victor stares into the watery, lifeless eyes of his creature, he finally realizes his mistake in trying to disrupt the natural order of the world. Scared by the outcome of his actions, Victor attempts to run away and find comfort in nature. He travels to the Arve Ravine, where “the
Regardless, time passes and then Victor becomes aware of the death of his youngest brother. He goes back to Geneva and finds that the murder of his brother was suspected to be done by the hands of an old family friend (servant), Justine. However, Victor knows that it was his creation that killed his brother. After Justine was hanged, he then goes off to the glaciers, which was beautifully described, to hunt down his monster. When alas, the monster finds him.
Once in a while, the news exposes horrid crimes in which offenders react to unfair treatments or uncontrollable incidents strayed from their good aims. These types of accounts often trigger debates on who are primary villains. In a complex society, one’s limited objectives sometimes trigger cascading effects, especially if one deviates from one’s rectitude. Therefore, without a precaution on the consequence, one’s free will may end with a disaster. Mary Shelley typifies this notion in her fiction Frankenstein, in which Victor Frankenstein, a fervid scientist, creates a monstrous creature in his heedless pursuit of knowledge at a cost of a few lives. Although the creature causes several deaths in this novel, he is a victim more worthy of forgiveness and compassion than Victor, whose moral failure as a creator is responsible for this tragedy.
However, it’s because of Victor’s desire of revenge. When Justine was accuse as a murder, Victor did not step up and protect an innocent life, he keep silence and allows lie to cover the truth of his creation. One of the victim, Ms. Justine is one of our witness, she will prove that she died by not knowing anything, due to the silence of Victor. Later Victor took revenge to my client. My client did not know what is right or wrong, he did not realize that he had done something terrible. He only done this because he was abandoned by his creator and got rejected from human society. Victor did not understand these, due to the death of his love ones, he builds hatred toward the monster, and his ambition was to kill his creation. This lust of revenge leads to the self-destruction of his and his creation’s death.
On page 136, when Victor is talking to his father, he says, "... Poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I, and she suffered the same charge; she died for it; and I am the cause of all of this- I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry- they all died by my hands." When Victor goes back to his to his father, he is depressed due to lives that His monster has ended and since Victor is the creator of the monster he believed that their blood shed was his fault. The signifies Victor`s downfall due to the fact that he went from being super excited about the process of creating life to hating himself and feeling like he is a