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Robert Walton--the captain of a ship headed on a dangerous voyage is headed to the North Pole. Robert writes letters to his sister Margaret. In the first letter he tells her how he wants to accomplish the undiscovered or “some great purpose”. In the second and third letter he tells her how lonely and isolated he feels, how he’s romantic, with his “love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous,” and he thinks he’s not going to be anybody. In the third letter Walton tells his sister that his ship has set sail and that he is confident that he will achieve his aim. In the fourth letter Walton tells her how his ship is between huge sheets of ice. Walton and his men spot a sledge guided by a gigantic creature not far from them. Walton and the stranger become friends, and the stranger begins to tell Walton his story.
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The reader learns that the stranger is Victor Frankenstein. It starts off about his family and his childhood. Victor Frankenstein had a fabulous and luxury life. Victor 's dad friend died and his dad became Caroline 's protector, when her father, Alphonse’s longtime friend Beaufort, died in poverty. They married two years later, and Victor was born soon after. After Victor 's parents marry they adopt a girl named Elizabeth, who becomes Victors play thing. Victor’s mother decides at the adoption that Elizabeth and Victor should someday get married.
Victor and Elizabeth grow up happy together and he spends time with his best friend Henry Clerval. Victor desired to learn everything about nature, he is fascinated about the unknown. Victor’s dad feels that the works Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Magnus is trash. During a raging storm, He witnesses the destructive power of nature when lightning destroys a tree n...
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... what the future holds because of the creatures threats and how Elizabeth is going to feel. He tells Elizabeth to go rest and he went to go search for the creature because he knew he was coming. Not long after he left he heard Elizabeth scream. The monster killed her. Victor didn’t intend that he was going after Elizabeth so Victor goes home and tells his dad about Elizabeth and in a couple of days his dad dies of grief. Victor finally tells his secret to a magistrate, but the magistrate didn’t believe him. Victor then vows to kill the creature so he goes to search for him. Victors whole family had been destroyed. He leaves Geneva and goes to the snow and ice in the North.Victor is sick on the ship and he got struck in the ice. Victor told his story to Walton and tells him to kill the “fiend”. Victor dies and the creature disappears in the darkness and plans to burn.
We are introduced to Victor who is found by Robert Walton, now when Victor begins to retell his tragic story he gives us a general view of who he is, where he was born, and what has happened in his life. We then progress through the story and arrive at the rising action which is when Victor returns back to school after his mother’s death and sisters recovery of scarlet fever. Victor sets out to create a living thing upon his return and this is when it all goes down hill, he successfully creates the monster but he is horrified at the site of the creature he then runs like fearful gazelle leaving the creature/monster to wander (very smart Victor). Skipping ahead the monsters causes quite a bit of trouble and strangles a lot of people, and this is all caused by him not being provided with a connection with anyone. Now before he really starts his strangulation spree he spies on a family (the Delacy’s) that teaches him unknowingly how to speak, read, and of general human connection and relationships. This moment of distant watching and learning has left him wanting things even more, he then reveals himself the Father who is blind and he is kind to the monster when the children arrive they terrified and reject the monster. Throughout the tale of the monster is reminded of his indifference by others resulting in him
Seeing his condition, Frankenstein moved to his country house. Now Victor was looking for "ease the pangs of physical movements and change places." He hired a mule, he went on a trip to the Alps. Two months later, crossing a glacier covered with deep cracks, he came face to face with his creation. All this time the monster was watching him. Being chosen is a lonely place, to speak with his creator, Frankenstein, and told his sad story (Shelley, 1999).
When victor brings the monster to life he soon realises that he has made a big mistake because he says ‘What have I done?’ this tells us that Victor has pride in his work at first but then it quickly turns to disbelief then he becomes terrified he leaves the monster and goes to his home in Geneva. The monster soon realises that he has been abandoned (I think that Mary has put in her novel him getting abandoned because her father abandoned her because he didn’t like the person who she was going to get married to) so he sets of to see what the world has to offer. As the monster comes across a village that has just been outrun with a deadly disease called colleria so when the villages see him they think that he brought it in and they beat. He turns to find Victor and make him pay for bring him back ugly. The monster finds a place to hide from all the people and he helps out a family by helping them with their farm work and he learns to read and write. In the family there is a blind man the monster is very protective over the blind man and the man come for the tax on the house where they live and he beats the blind man up but then the monster beats up the tax man and the little girl with the blind man screams and the mum and dad hears meanwhile the blind man and the monster
The monster tells Frankenstein of the wretchedness of the world and how it was not meant for a being such as himself. At the end of his insightful tale the creature demands a companion of the same hideous features but of the opposite gender to become his. Victor only has the choice to make the monster or suffer a lifetime of horror his creation would bring upon him. Which the creator ultimately agrees to make the female monster to save the lives of his family but gains a conscious that fills with guilt of all the destruction he has created and creating. When the monster comes to collect the female he tears her apart and the monster vows to destroy all Victor holds dear. The monster’s emotional sense is consumed with rage against Victor, murdering Frankenstein’s best friend. Though when the monster’s framing ways do not work to lead to Victor being executed, he then murders Frankenstein’s wife on their wedding night. This tragedy is the last for Victor’s father who becomes ill with grief and quickly passes within a few days, leaving Victor with nothing but his own regret. Shelley doesn’t give the audience the monsters side of the story but hints that the remainder of his journey consisted of being a shadow to that of his creator. It is at the graves of the Frankenstein family when the creature makes an appearance in the solemn and
The beginning of Frankenstein’s dream started as a young man, Victor 's interests lie in science, chemistry, and of the balance and contrasts of life and
Throughout the book of Frankenstein, the creator of the being Frankenstein, Victor, is experienced as a suffering being. He recalls from the very beginning a time during his childhood where he was happy and surrounded by love, a time when his mother lived. Victor’s downfall or the beginning of his disgrace, initiates with the death of his mother. Victor leaves his family to start a new stage in his life, he leaves on quest for answers a true quest for knowledge. Personal motivation will lead Victor to take on the challenge of overcoming death, or to be more specific, give life to a dead body.
Frankenstein chases the monster to the North Pole, in an attempt to kill it. Weakened by the cold and long chase, a dying Victor is taken aboard a ship, where he relates his tale to the captain and dies soon after. The next night the monster visits the ship and looks upon Victor's body, ashamed by all of the killing he has done the monster flees into the Arctic Ocean, never to be seen again. Frankenstein appears to be a novel about the evil ways of man, but it is truly about the human soul and how it needs friendship and love to survive.
...sun, heaven and hell, and good and evil. The Creature and Victor through out the story are perfect dual characters that mirror each other. Victor is stripped of all his loved ones by the Creature and the Creature loses his loved ones (the cottagers). They are also thought of as evil but have good intentions at heart.
A reckless abandonment cost Victor and others, their lives. The Creation killed everyone Victor loved as vengeance for his treatment and isolation. Nevertheless, Victor chose to keep his knowledge of his own doing a secret and watched in guilt as many people, including his own family, died. Victor’s ignorance becomes the
...three different symbolic levels, as a Romantic novel, Archetype novel, or a Gothic novel. On the romantic level, Victor is the villain because he abandons the creature and leaves it to fend for itself. The creature is miserable and just wants a friend, but was abandoned by Victor making it almost impossible. On the Archetype level, Victor is the villain because he tries to play god. He wants to be worshipped like a god, by creating his own species, and creating life from plain matter. But in doing so, Victor disturbed the natural order of things. Finally, Victor is the villain on the Gothic level. There he is the villain, because he and the creature are part of a greater being, and Victor's subconscious wants William and Elizabeth dead, which is why the monster kills them. Despite the fact that Victor didn't physically murder anyone, he was the villain of the novel.
All the events and misfortunes encountered in Frankenstein have been linked to one another as a chain of actions and reactions. Of course, the first action and link in the chain is started by Victor Frankenstein. Victor’s life starts with great potential. He comes from a decently wealthy family whose lack of love towards each other never existed. He is given everything he needs for a great future, and his academics seem to be convalescing.
With the different trips that Victor endures individually, it hints a sense of individuality as he seeks isolation from the world. He is also a very emotional man, who loves his family. As death of his family members occurs, he becomes emotionally unstable and seeks revenge against his creation. Ultimately trying to end the life he so vigorously wanted to create. This reflects both the passion and individualism theme from the Romantic
Victor Frankenstein experiences a great childhood life in Switzerland, Victor Frankenstein experiences a perfect childhood in Switzerland; surrounded by a loving family and accompanied by his cousin Elizabeth. Victor is interested in all of the books he reads about science. After the death of his mother, his first murderous experience was when he attended the University of Germany where he applied his newfound knowledge and created a human being, (the monster) of enormous size and strength. When his creation is made and awakes Frankenstein, is so horrified by his creation that he falls into an illness, lasting for months. While he is sick, the creature leads himself into the woods and purposely does what his brainpower tells him to do. Frankenstein returns home when learning that his brother had been murdered and Justine a friend Frankenstein is falsely executed. Having been hated, refused, and feared by every human being he meets, so he decides he wants to change. He asks Frankenstein to create him a female buddy but he never wantsto exchange bread with humanity ...
Victor’s initial isolation as a child foreshadows the motif of detachment that occurs throughout the novel. As Victor Frankenstein recounts his informative tale to a seafaring Robert Walton, he makes it known that he was a child of nobility; however it is sadly transparent that combined with insufficient parenting Victor’s rare perspective on life pushes him towards a lifestyle of conditional love. Children are considered symbolic of innocence but as a child Victor’s arrogance was fueled by his parents. With his family being “one of the most
Caroline’s decision to marry Victor’s father symbolizes a woman in need of a man to protect her. Furthermore, Caroline’s passivity is displayed when Caroline brings Elizabeth from the orphanage and asks her husband to make Elizabeth part of the Frankenstein family. Victor describes Elizabeth’s background by stating, “Her mother was a German and had died on giving birth.... ... middle of paper ...