There is also corruption within the lack of relationship between Victor and his creation that leads to death, revenge and internal hatred surrounding them. Being there for a child or creation at birth and throughout their childhood is another critical responsibility of being a parent or creator. At the time of the monster’s creation, Victor abandons him and leaves him alone to suffer the first moments he is experiencing the world, which causes the monster to feel very empty and outcast from the start, without even knowing he is a “monster”: . “It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.” (87). Mary Shelley’s use of the word “desolate” really captures the exact emotion
Victor, afraid of the creature’s power after he created life, abandoned his son. After Victor neglected his creation, he felt terribly alone, “’I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept’” (Shelly 72). The creature could not have been evil upon creation because he knew nothing! Essentially an infant, he did not know good or evil. Feeling desolate and lonely, he had no one to care for him. “…the monster faces rejection and fear from his creator” (Monster). Victor’s fear blinded him from the creature’s true identity. If Victor had stayed with the monster he could have seen the love the being could hold. The creature never would have hurt anyone if Victor cared for him from the beginning.
People try to be everything that everybody else wants them to be, and when they are not, people get angry and form hate for a lot of things. People start to harass others for not being a certain way and that is what makes the victim’s monsterous. Victor abandons his creature and later tries to kill him, which turns the creature into an agressive person becaue of the hate, making him the monster, killing his family and framing them. After seeing the family in the house in the beginning, the creature also wants someone to be with him and someone to love, so he asks Victor to create a female for him. Victor does not agree right away but then he does, and he goes to create a female but realizes it might turn into a monster also. The creature comes into Victors room with the half made female lying there and he loves her already but Victor destroys her right in front of him, and obviously it is going to make him mad. Victor is destroying something he loves, so the creature destroys everything Victor loves, and just creates a monster inside of himself through all the hate he had been introduced to. “How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery, without feeling the most poignant grief” (11). This quote really relates to Victor’s creature because he did not choose to be born into a hateful place, he just got thrown into it, turning him into a hate filled being. The mass shootings recently and in the past could be used as an example of how
It is through these actions that the monster acts out his evil doings and murders those that Victor loves. The monster does this because he wants to seek revenge on Victor and wants to make him pay for neglecting him all throughout his life. The monster is seen as awful and evil in every aspect by every person, but if he was nurtured and cared for by Victor, and the human societies didn’t initially judge him based on his appearance, he could have kept the goodness that he originally had when he was
Corruption and satisfaction are two characteristics which are revealed many times in British Literature. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein develops these characteristics deeply in particular with the character of the monster. The monster demonstrates corruption and satisfaction when it comes to his demand to have a female companion. He cares deeply about the satisfaction of having a companion just as in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Lady Macbeth stands by Macbeth’s side after what happened at the dinner he was having with others. “I pray you, speak not, he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him. At once, good night; Stand not upon the order of your going; But go at once” (3.4.116-19) Macbeth felt so guilty about his decisions that once he had murderers
People say that “through hard work and determination, dreams will come true” and this does not always seem to be the case. Hard work and determination, or ambition for short, does lead to the accomplishments of dreams, but sometimes ends up ruining relationships as seen in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. The novel, originally written in 1818, depicts a story about a young ambitious scientist-by the name of Victor Frankenstein-who attempts at creating life. Throughout the story, Victor works tirelessly to accomplish this feat---and finally does succeed in doing so. This creation, though, does not make Victor any happier than he previously was--in fact, it makes him more depressed. From his lab emerges a monster, a being “so hideous” that even he flees from it in disgust (Shelley, 140). Fierce ambition mixed with pride drives Victor to create the monster, and this ultimately makes him neglect the various aspects of his life. This ambitious quality does not just belong to Victor, but to many more. Because he represents a creator, Victor passes down this quality-not always resulting in good things-to his creation; in a sense, he reaps what he sows. Without this “heedless ambition”, there would have existed a lighter,
The creature's ambiguous humanity has long puzzled readers of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In this essay I will focus on how Frankenstein can be used to explore two philosophical topics, social contract theory, and gender roles, in light of ideas from Shelley's two philosophical parents, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Parenting can be a tough job and not everyone is fit for the position which can result in abusing the child emotionally and sometimes even physically. As for Victor Frankenstein, his initial response to his child was out of the ordinary. His screams of horror terrified the creature instantly as he was confused what he was born into. Normally, children are welcomed into the world with tears of joy and happiness because the parents are glad to continue onto their life with a small human being. Whereas Victor neglected his creation and wanting nothing to do with the creature. His response to the creature was not to care for it with joy but rather abandoned the apartment along with the creature. The creature even goes out of his way, struggling to walk like a one year old child seeking for his parent. When he stumbles upon him, Victor makes it clear he does not want to see the creature ever again in his life. Due to this, the creature becomes evil resulted from the constant neglect that Victor imposed on him, emotionally abusing him during his first years of life on this universe. Victims of those who spent their childhood being neglected by their parents causes “long-term difficulties with behaviour and mental health development,” which was definitely seen in his change of behavior and resorting to horrendous acts (Odhayani). Since Victor
From the moment the monster is created, he is looked at as disgusting and horrific. His own creator, Victor, looked at him when he finished with “breathless horror…disgust filled [his] heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being [he] had created” (Shelley 59). Victors runs from his own creation, leaving the newborn monster confused and alone. If having his own creator reject him wasn’t enough isolation, he is soon shunned and hated by society. They all look at him as evil from the assumption of his physical appearance. Since humans cannot accept him for his appearance, the monster demands Victor to “create a female for... whom [he] can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for [his] being” (Shelley 174). His search for friends, and even family, fails, leaving the monster with vengeance against Victor and
In the novel, Victor’s quest for power leads to the suffering of himself through his disregard of responsibility. This is seen after Victor creates the monster and states, “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep… I passed the night wretchedly. Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the
Society is a concept found in all aspects of life; it is a slant which is impossible to avoid. For instance; sadly in life society labels things or people as good or bad, poor or rich, ugly or pretty. The literary piece of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley clearly reflects this act of society in which they classify all things. The novel reflects how society labels everything; by being judgmental from the way the family is seen, how people view Frankenstein as a monster, and how the monster is affected, his conduct gets altered by all of society judgmental actions.
Mary Shelley expresses various ethical issues by creating a mythical monster called Frankenstein. There is some controversy on how Mary Shelley defines human nature in the novel, there are many features of the way humans react in situations. Shelley uses a relationship between morality and science, she brings the two subjects together when writing Frankenstein, and she shows the amount of controversy with the advancement of science. There are said to be some limits to the scientific inquiry that could have restrained the quantity of scientific implications that Mary Shelley was able to make, along with the types of scientific restraints. Mary Shelley wrote this classic novel in such a way that it depicted some amounts foreshadowing of the world today. This paper will concentrate on the definition of human nature, the controversy of morality and science, the limits to scientific inquiry and how this novel ties in with today’s world.
Recent advances in science have raised the question of morality in the world. How far will scientists go before experiments are deemed immoral? Frankenstein, the novel, raises a question regarding the line between morality and immorality. This novel refers to the difference between scientific advances as an advantage and a disadvantage. The novel Frankenstein reveals the immorality of creating artificial life beyond the laws of nature.
The story of Frankenstein is about a man named Victor. Victor was a privileged man;born into an influential and high class family, went to college, and married his childhood sweetheart. However he was by nature, a scientist who truly believed in the potential of man and obsessed with the notion of creating life. One day, he attempted to create a living being in the name of betterment of humanity. The experiment was a success, the creature was born on that day with emotions and the capacity of intelligence. However due to the sheer hideousness of the creature,
Emotion is a sharp double-sided blade. It has the ability to do either good or harm. Humans have been known to start wars because of spite or anger. They can also be very delicate and fragile emotionally. Therefore, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the lack of companionship and love can lead to malicious behavior.
Oppression stems from a person’s need to satisfy their self interests rather than worry about others’ needs. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Frankenstein is oppressed by the ethical boundaries placed by society since he acts out to satisfy himself without thinking about how his actions will reflect on people besides himself. The glory of gaining knowledge intrigues Frankenstein. Frankenstein’s desires consume him in work. The creature weighs Frankenstein down in an ethical dilemma. The fear instilled by the creature takes over Frankenstein’s life. The goals Frankenstein wishes to accomplish consume his life.