Passion And Responsibility In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley highlights on the experiences her characters undergo through the internal war of passion and responsibility. Victor Frankenstein lets his eagerness of knowledge and creating life get so out of hand that he fails to realize what the outcome of such a creature would affect humankind. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, highlights on how Frankenstein’s passion of knowledge is what ultimately causes the decline of his health and the death of him and his loved ones. Frankenstein has been interested in natural science since childhood and has described himself to “always have been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature”(Shelley 25), which foreshadows his future aspiration to create life, and …show more content…
Frankenstein only realizes the full ramifications of his actions when the monster first opens its eyes, but by then it is too late and nothing can stop the monster from being alive. Instead of taking responsibility for the monster he has created, Frankenstein flees and does not really question where it went upon his return, celebrated for a bit when he “becomes assured that [his] enemy had indeed fled” (Shelley 46), and it was not on his mind until it was seen when he got to his home town. This shows Frankenstein's true personality when faced with a difficult problem, as far as physiological reactions go he has the “flight” response. Every time a situation comes up that provokes stressful emotions he seeks for solitude in …show more content…
He knows that he is responsible for it’s existence from the line, “a being whom [himself] had formed, and endued with life” (Shelley 60) but does not consider himself a factor when it comes to the deaths of William and Justine. At this point of the story Frankenstein mostly talks about how much he hates the monster instead of the possible danger his family is now put in, while he cannot help but feel guilty because the creature that he created has already killed two people he held dearly he still does not acknowledge his responsibility for the monster’s actions. After hearing the monster’s side of the story Frankenstein started to show some compassion for the being and agreed to it’s desire for a mate. Now that Frankenstein has learned the full story of his creation he feels the need to take responsibility for it now with the line, “did [he] not as his maker owe him all portions of happiness” (Shelley 125), less the monster start to attack humanity out of
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how mary shelley's novel, frankenstein, highlights the experiences her characters undergo through the internal war of passion and responsibility.
- Explains that frankenstein has been interested in natural science since childhood, which foreshadows his future aspiration to create life, and it continued through his life to when he goes to university.
- Analyzes how frankenstein, in his tunnel visioned state to create life, animates the monster without realizing the consequences of his actions. he flees and does not really question where it went upon his return.
- Analyzes how mary shelley's novel, frankenstein, highlights the experiences her characters undergo through the internal war of passion and responsibility.
- Explains that frankenstein has been interested in natural science since childhood, which foreshadows his future aspiration to create life, and it continued through his life to when he goes to university.
- Analyzes how frankenstein, in his tunnel visioned state to create life, animates the monster without realizing the consequences of his actions. he flees and does not really question where it went upon his return.
- Analyzes how frankenstein doesn't acknowledge his responsibility for the monster's actions when he sees it again in two years. he is responsible for its existence but does not consider himself a factor when it comes to the deaths of william and justine.
- Analyzes how frankenstein showed compassion for the monster and agreed to it’s desire for a mate. now that he has learned the full story of his creation, frank feels the need to take responsibility for it.
- Analyzes how frankenstein decided not to make the monster it's other half. he took the whole of humanity into consideration and thought it would be better to have one monster wreaking havoc upon the world than two.
- Analyzes how frankenstein takes one hundred percent of the responsibility of his creation when clerval is murdered.
- Analyzes how frankenstein has matured through the novel as he accepts the error of his ways but wants to make sure that no one will make the same mistake.
- Analyzes how mary shelley uses victor frankenstein to symbolize the common conflict between passion and responsibility.
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