As people we often do not take responsibility for our creations, there are people that let others clean up that mess. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, had Victor taken responsibility for his creations, then those creations would turn out the way he had intended for them to turn out. Victor is on a path that leads to making decisions and more often he makes these rash decisions that he doesn’t take responsibility for right off the bat. He goes and creates this monstrosity without thinking “hey, what could be the repercussions of bring life to the dead?” or the fact that he basically robs graves to make his life's work come together as one almost literally. “Is this not a free country? asked Frankenstein… Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks. replied an ill-looking man” (127). This man walks up to Victor asking for him to go and meet with a Mr. Kirwin about a dead man, Victor could be thinking of what he did to create the monster, or more accurately what the monster did. If Victor had shown some …show more content…
So he looks for someone to accept him for what he is, but in truth, he himself hasn’t quite accepted what he is, he goes after Victor in an attempt to make him create another one like him. “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede." The creature tries to make an acceptance, via another being like himself, when in reality all he needs to do is look deep down, take Victors journal and create one for himself, and he himself can learn to be accepted. Not that the men and women have to accept him, because for the most part monsters or people like the creation can only be accepted truely by little children and blind people, so therefore he has an obligation to himself to strive to work for a better
Victor Frankenstein’s monster, a hideous being that was most often described as a terrifying wretch by those who became scarred by his figure. When Frankenstein gave life to this creature, he was unaware of what he had unleashed to the world. The monster would go on a murderous rampage and kill one of Frankenstein’s brothers, William. However, who is to blame for this homicide? The creator or the created? If Frankenstein never fashioned such a demented concept, no one would have be hurt in the first place. On the contrary, if the monster learned to control its inner rage, then lives would not have ended so violently. In the novel it is portrayed that Frankenstein’s monster is quite an intellect. If everyone was to accept him as who he was,
As a romantic novel Victor is responsible, because he abandoned his creation. As an archetype novel, Victor is the villain, because he was trying to play god. Finally, Victor as a Gothic novel, Victor is at fault, because, he and the creature are two different parts of the same person. If Frankenstein is looked at as a romantic novel, Victor, not the creature, is truly the villain. When Victor created the creature, he didn't take responsibility for it. He abandoned it, and left it to fend for itself. It is unfair to bring something into the world, and then not teach it how to survive. The creature was miserable, and just wanted a friend or someone to talk to. On page 115, the creature said, "Hateful day when I received life! Accursed the creator. Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust." This line shows the agony the monster was in, because of how he looked when he was created which led to even Victor running away from him. If Victor didn't run, he could have taught the monster and made his life happy. After the creature scared the cottagers away he said, "I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter ...
In Frankenstein, the moral identity of the Creature is ambiguous to the reader because of the contrast between how Victor portrays him and he views himself. The Creature’s voice is absent in the first volume, leaving his moral character to be described by Victor as evil and monstrous (Shelley, 83-84). In the second Volume, the Creature becomes the narrator of the text and portrays himself as a curious and friendly being (Shelley, 119). It is the presence of the Creature’s voice that allows him to be seen as a new born full of benevolence who is longing for companionship (Shelley, 157). The Creature’s transition from benevolent to heinous occurs through a series of failed attempts at assimilating into human society. The characters
Throughout the story, Victor Frankenstein became less and less responsible for the creature’s actions. At the beginning of the creature’s life, Victor can be held accountable for the creature’s actions because he is the one that “birth” it. In the beginning of Chapter 5 of the novel, Frankenstein, Victor expresses how ugly the creature is saying, (1818) “How can I describe this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!--Great God!” Victor created a hideous monster, not with the intentions on making him ugly. “Collecting bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame” is how Victor brought this monster together; sounds like Victor is a child at play with his new toys, in a rush to put them together, resulting in the creature’s body becoming an ugly and botched together a disgraceful figure of nature as if it was a rag doll. It was just Victor’s fantasy of autonomy that he tried to make become
Victor was so caught up in his science that he failed to consider that he is creating a monster. Consequently, just because he was ignorant of what he was doing does not alleviate him from all moral responsibility of his actions. In order to be morally responsible, he should have considered that if he succeed, his Monster would be marginalized due to his horrendous looks. Frankenstein never considered what he would do with his creation after it became alive, let alone make him look like he would fit into society. Even Frankenstein realized the immorality of his experiments via the guilt-ridden sicknesses and endless remorse he feels throughout the novel. Victor knew that he was morally responsible, if he didn’t, he would not feel remorse or guilty every time someone he loves
As human beings we are nurtured by our environment. In the book “Frankenstein” the main characters, Victor and Elizabeth Frankenstein, clearly demonstrate how influence can significantly impact one’s natural progress in life. In the story of Jacob’s chicken illustrates the power of influence teachers posses and lastly in On monster by Asthma, the influence from women's charecterists is metaphorically shown in each of the monsters.
While Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein revolves around the quest for revealing new forms of knowledge and discovering innovative technology, another significant part of the book is the character's journey in trying to fulfill their innate desire for companionship. The novel features a crazed scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a living being from various dead human corpses in an attempt to become a god-like figure. Frankenstein’s creation presented a moral commitment of responsibility that a creator has over its creation. Frankenstein’s ignorance towards his responsibility as a creator left the disfigured creature alone to be ravaged by the evilness of humanity. The life of suffering that the creature faced due to his lack of emotional
Victor does not follow any guidelines that a physician should follow when treating a patient; for instance, a physician should “be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights” (AMA). As mentioned above, Victor crosses a generally held ethical boundary of proper responsibility by his initial escape from the monster and carefree disregard of his actions and their effects on the creature, along with his surroundings and as anticipated, his unthinking actions don’t pass without consequences. Victor had probably realized the society in general wouldn't accept his creation, as he himself has done, and that the outside world would be a significant danger to the monster. Moreover, he doesn't show any form of “respect” for the monster as an individual and instead, spends a majority the time thinking about how the monster was being a nefarious nuisance to his personal life and proceeded to deny repeated attempts of mutual connection and companionship from the monster. This is shown when the monster actually tries to communicate and interact with his creator when he first wakes up, only to be rejected: “His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds” (Shelley 49). Victor’s mentality is extremely unfair and reprehensible and holds him somewhat accountable for the ensuing repulsion and
Dr. Victor Frankenstein has always wanted to achieve great things—achieve them and be acknowledged for them. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein’s ambition pushes him to extreme, unorthodox measures, which leads to his obsession of getting noticed. It makes him create a monster from body parts of the dead. To make such a discovery, Frankenstein must possess almost superhuman intelligence and focus. However, once his creature was brought to life, his behavior in his research make it clear that he is remarkably short-sighted and irresponsible on a fundamental human level. When the monster turns violent and vengeful, killing everyone Frankenstein holds dear, it is clear that the monster should not be held responsible.
In Mary Shelley’s work of literature Frankenstein many themes such as family, compassion, secrecy, and revenge are present throughout the story. Of all the themes, the one that stands out most is revenge. When revenge is brought up in any conversation the outcome is typically people saying revenge is not worth the outcome. Revenge is bittersweet but usually has an ugly aftermath because it can be dangerous in its own way. Throughout Frankenstein there are numerous examples of revenge and characters seeking revenge. The two main characters constantly pursuing revenge are Victor and the creature.
After Frankenstein discovered the source of human life, he became wholly absorbed in his experimental creation of a human being. Victor's unlimited ambition, his desire to succeed in his efforts to create life, led him to find devastation and misery. "...now that I have finished, the beauty of the dream had vanished..." (Shelley 51). Victor's ambition blinded him to see the real dangers of his project. This is because ambition is like a madness, which blinds one self to see the dangers of his actions. The monster after realizing what a horror he was demanded that victor create him a partner. "I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was like torture..." (Shelley 169). Victor's raw ambition, his search for glory, has left him. His eyes have been opened to see his horrible actions, and what have and could become of his creations. As a result, Victor has realized that he is creating a monster, which could lead to the downfall of mankind. His choice is simple, save his own life or save man.
With creating the creature, the creator Victor Frankenstein has a tremendous responsibility to mankind. He has achieved a phenomenon in science. Just as anyone who has created something amazing
In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley is sending a clear message that personal choice is extremely important in shaping the lives of her characters. Any bad choice made by Shelley’s characters result in terrible consequences that haunt them for the rest of their lives. Before any choice is made one should think one the consequences that can result from that decision. Personal choice can help one succeed, but it can also cause them to suffer. Victor made the terrible choice of abandoning his creation after it’s birth which results in the deaths of all of his loved ones and eventually himself. Another exemplary example is the trial and execution of Justine Moritz, servant and friend to Elizabeth, who died because of Victor’s mistakes. Throughout
Knowledge is an abstract yet powerful idea that seeks to immerse its victims in the pursuit of unattainable information. Victor wishes to discover more than any person before him has, and in return discards all moral and ethical obligations he previously held. In doing so, Victor inevitably wishes to obtain absolute control of the fate of his surroundings, leaving the barrier between life and death an opaque abstraction. After creating the monster and performing his numerous experiments, Frankenstein takes no responsibility for the being of life he has actually created and dehumanizes the monster as a “success”. While the creation of the monster in itself was an atrocity, the ultimate proof of Victor’s irresponsibility can be seen with how he dealt with the monster after its unnatural
In response, the creature kills his family. Victor then, finally begins a pursuit to kill his creation. Victor ignores his family because he is afraid of assuming a heteronormative role, and runs from his creature because he represents his repressed sexuality come to life.