Victor Frankenstein Technology

There are two opposing forces in this novel that greatly affect Victor Frankenstein, the advancement of science and technology, and the natural world as it is. Mary Shelly reinforces the theme that science and technology are dangerous if unchecked by showing how nature is the only thing that will heal Victor. When Victor is left despondent by grief by the murders of his friends and family, he shuns humanity and instead turns to nature for health and to strengthen his spirits. As Frankenstein continues, Victor takes sustenance from nature, and it becomes his personal therapy when he undergoes torment or stress and by chapter five of the first volume, Shelley creates a connection between Victor and nature. Instead of describing Victors emotions

Undeniably this pursuit is responsible for the main events of the book; in his quest to discover the secrets of creation, Victor Frankenstein designs and builds his monster. He collects the parts of dead bodies and tries to create the monster out of it. Victor’s only aim is investing the new kind of scientific creature ad does not think about what consequences it will take if he can create this new being and he is blind in his target or aim and goes on to create the monster regardless. After “working hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body” Victor becomes able to create the monster per his excess desires of doing it (39). In the secrecy of his apartment, he brings to his creation into life. But when he considers the creature, the sight horrifies himself, the monster “[is] not even of the same nature as man. [It] was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; [it] bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to [its] frame” (96). The creation of the monster is a punishment inflicted upon Frankenstein for his unbridled pursuit of knowledge. The monster punishes Victor and states that, “[he] will revenge [his] injuries: if [he] cannot inspire love, [he] will cause fear, and chiefly towards [Victor] [his] archenemy” for abandoning him (119). The monster accomplishes this task by murdering William Frankenstein, Victor's brother; Henry Clerval, Victor's best friend; and Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor's bride. The monster’s devastating acts of violence towards Victor is the natural world sending Victor a message that those who break the laws of nature in the pursuit of personal ambition will reap the consequences. The Monster is the ultimate metaphor that knowledge and science itself isn’t dangerous, but becomes dangerous through its misuse and abuse by