Victor Frankenstein Comparison Essay

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In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein sets out to cure death after his mother tragically passed. He set out on his studies and make it to medical school. From their he learns things he didn’t think he would learn and he made discoveries of his own. Still trying to cure death, Victor sets up in his lab an experiment, made from “materials” he constructs a man, a huge man, and infuses life into it. It goes perfect, the creature comes alive, but Victor’s horrified by it and runs. Earns it escaped. And sets out to kill it once and for all. He follows clues and sightings of the creature to the ends of the earth. The creature kills Victor’s closest friends and family. Victor keeps going and follows the creature up north. …show more content…

My feelings are profound; but I possessed a coolness of judgement that fitted me for illustrious achievements”( passage #1, lines 1-3). Victor believes that his purpose in life is to be amazing and heard of. “When i first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that i wished to be participated.”( passage #2, lines 1-3). Both Victor and the creature are alike because they both saw themselves destined to do something extraordinary. Victor was thought of himself as extraordinary and after his mother’s death, he set out to cure death, Victor thought that this was his destiny. The creature on the other hand, when he woke, he thought he was to love and to give compassion. And the creature did just that with a family in the woods. They sadly rejected him after they saw his face add his …show more content…

My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention, because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery“ ( passage #1, lines, 24-27). Victor, even when he dedicated so much of his life to this, when it succeeds, he leaves it for trash, neglects it. “ When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness” ( passage #2, lines 13-16). This shows that the creature sees himself in a different life from when he was mindless and a “monster”. You should care about the similarities and differences between the creature and Victor, because they are so close to the same person. Victor strived for a passion after his mother’s death to cure death. The creatures passion was for love and affection to fall onto him. Both wanted it and didn’t get it. Victor sadly is the bigger monster, because he keep denying the creatures request for a female companion. Victor almost finished the female creature then came to the self realization, that this is bad, even though the creature would leave Victor alone, forever. Therefore, I believe Victor is the true monster of this story,

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