Conscious And Unconscious Motives In Frankenstein

Conscious and Unconscious Motives of Character’s Love Nowadays there are many meanings to the word ‘love’, and people use the word ‘love’ to express emotions. Love is different for each individual because it can be felt for a person, an object, or a way of life, which makes it difficult to encompass a true interpretation of it. In English there is only one word for love and that is the word love. The more frequently the word love is used then it is more likely for the true meaning of the word to become dim. In the Greek language, different words are used to describe different types of love such as Eros, Phileo, Storge, Agape, and Philautia. Eros describes sexual and passionate love. Phileo is used to talk about friendship. Storge is a family

The monster is a creation of Victor’s narcissism and his enlarged ego, which leads to his downfall. His love for science becomes enslaving and Victor seems, “to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit” (Shelley 39). Victor becomes more isolated from society as he becomes deeply involved in his passionate pursuit of expanding the boundaries of science. Not only is the creation of Victor’s monster a result of his narcissistic nature, but the creature is also created out of Victor’s sexual

The Id is wants to fulfill the instinctual needs and wants of a person and the Super-ego plays a role of upholding ideal standards of morality. The Ego is the everyday realistic part that mediates between the desires of the Id and Superego. In the poem, the male speaker is characterized as being at war with his uncontrollable lusting after the women in the poem. One example that shows this is, “The Id in the first and second stanza is under control of the Ego because the lover is only pleading, praising and threatening to entrap the beloved; this type of behavior is socially and morally acceptable” (Mushtaq). This illustrates that the lover progresses through the constraints of Ego and Superego because the speaker has not given in to the Id’s desires and still presents himself within moral and social restrictions. Furthermore, the depiction of how the speaker’s conscious is at war is exemplified in stanza three when, “The force of desire escalates to its highest point when the lover asserts `Now let us sport us while we may/and now, like amorous birds of prey/Rather at once our time devour’ (lines 37-39). The word `sport’ quite obviously suggests a desire for a sustained physical activity” (Mushtaq). This shows that in the end the speaker’s Id overcomes the Ego and