What Is Victor's Attitude Change In Frankenstein

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, she writes about a hopeless romantic man named Victor, who is on a journey to create a perfect human race, starting with a monster he created out of mortified body parts named, “The Creature”. The fact of the matter is, that Victor’s mind was not clear on the fact that he was creating another life, unnaturally at that. Throughout this story, Victor finds himself distraught, and displeased with his work on this being, so he decides to abandon the living creature. As time grows upon Victor, he realizes the damage he has done, not only to the angry, distraught Creature, but on society, and himself. The behaviors in this story range from positive and negative attitudes, and actions that display rage, from a sentimental

heart. Most people relate the theme of vengeance in this story, to real-life situations, such as the Holocaust. The sorrow, and despair of the sufferers’, and the survivors of the Holocaust (or Jews at this period in time) in a way, relates to the sadness the Creature felt when he was abandoned, ugly, and had the feeling of unacceptance from society, and his creator, Victor. This article about the Holocaust reflects the feelings the Creature felt in a way that is so detrimental, it lead him to destruction, and vengeance.
People who came across the Creature saw how ugly and deformed he was, and because of this, he was treated inferior to society.

A negative attitude spiraled in the Creature, and a result of this of the torment that he faced every single day of his life, being hideous. Unfortunately, that lead to his rage taking over a negative his perspective on life. He says, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me into pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?” (Shelley 147) The Creature is talking to Victor and explaining to him, the distraught, and the lonely feelings that lead to his episodes of rage. At this time, the Creature knows his strengths and weaknesses, and would not hesitate to act belligerent, if he isn’t pleased. The feelings the Creature felt of unacceptance reflects on the ways Jews in the Holocaust, and in concentration camp were treated because, the through it all, cries of freedom and acceptance were loud. “In his book Night, Elie Wiesel writes that, during the time he spent in concentration camps, he thought about the revenge he would take on the Germans. He fantasized about what he would do after the war.” (Shalom Robinson, M.D.,* Michal Rapaport-Bar-Sever, M.D. and Sara Metzer, B.A). When EIie Weisel fantasized of the vengeance he would take on the Nazis, in a unique way, his state of mind was equivalent to the Creature. When he wanted to do

something, he stopped everything he was doing, and focused on just that. Almost everyone trapped in the concentration camps had a goal to escape, but did not have the power to. The similarity between the concentration camp casualties and the Creature is the feeling of being trapped. Any way the Creature tried, he was not going to be redefined into a flawless looking being. Just as how many times the Jews tried to escape from their concentration camps or the Holocaust in general, they were not going to be set free at a given time. As depressing as it is, the feeling of loneliness can lead to desire for a better life, or desire for evil episodes of rage (revenge).
The Nazi’s (mass murderers in the Holocaust/ concentration camps) represented their anger, and hate into Jews. The hatred was so strong that it led to discrimination, and from discrimination, to murder. This pattern of rage from the Nazi’s is seen in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, especially when the Creature starts to understand how easy it is to be destructive to society. “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 and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.” (Shelley 138) At this point in time, the Creature wants to destroy everything in his path, like the cottage he was watching, and the people in them. It was horrifying to realize that he now had reached his boiling point with not only the world, but the people in them. Again, realizing the damage that the Nazi’s have done to society, and what the Creature has done to his society, it reflects in a raging attitude, that includes a desire to destroy obstacles in its path.