Throughout the majority of the novel, Victor’s immediate response within any situation is to act upon his emotions; whether it be sadness, anger, disgust, or fear. These emotions that Victor feels so strongly come to be a defining part of his personality as they seemingly seep out of him -- with or without notice, and consume the entirety of his headspace. This, in turn, spares no room for the concepts of logic and reasoning to take form in his life. The emotionally-guided actions that Victor takes draws him out to be quite a childish, immature, and impulsive character which, as a result, stunts his growth as an individual. It is not until Victor is able to overpower his emotions and let his logical side rise to the surface that he begins to …show more content…
Time and time again, Victor Frankenstein becomes crippled by the emotions that cloud his head. Feelings such as regret, remorse, guilt, and fear, leave him “[wishing] that peace would revisit [his] mind” (Shelley 62) and urge him to seek out “relief from [the] intolerable sensations” (64) that have built up inside him. Yet, rather than facing his demons with a passionate resolve, he resorts to cowering away as “remorse [has already] extinguished every [ounce of] hope” (62) he may have ever had. He, in turn, is left with the fear that his previous actions may one day find their way back to him. Victor’s inability to confront his monsters face-to-face demonstrates how easily he can be inhibited by his emotions while also acting as a roadblock on his journey to …show more content…
Victor Frankenstein is shown to be an individual that is unable to hold himself back in the presence of his own “rage and hatred” (68) as these emotions tend to “overwhelm him” (68) in his entirety. When these sorts of intense emotions are brought to the surface, Victor is incapable of acting in any manner sort of a “furious detestation” (68) as he, in a sense, is controlled his instinctive passions. It is only after the release of his anger will Victor be able to come to a state where reasonable and coherent thoughts are able to be produced. However, this stage never came to be, seeing as these feelings were never able to fully subside. Victor allowed himself to become a slave to his own emotions as he continually sat in the passenger seat while his feelings lead him straight to his own personal hell. He had done nothing but sit aside and watch his emotions take possession of the wheel in which they would use to drive him down a continuous and inescapable path of anger and remorse. In the likelihood of Victor taking the wheel and steering himself away from his emotions will he begin to grow in terms of his
After bringing life to something seemingly horrible, Victor Frankenstein reveals his personality of avoidance and arrogance. Instead of facing the creature he created, he runs away from the problem. His motivations for the experiment vary, but there is one clear one that he even admits. "The world," he says, "was to me a secret which I desired to divine" (Shelley 18). Victor tells us that he's curious, and more importantly that he's always been this way. Victor has been raised in a very loving family. His father and mother were kind parents who loved all of their children, and even adopted some children. Victor, however, grows up a little indulged and perhaps because of this, he is selfish. He is stubborn and unyielding about many things. For
The first reason that Victor is a sociopath is the fact that he makes all of his decisions in the moment with complete disregard for anyone else. The article “Moral Ignorance and Blameworthiness states
From the onset of Victor’s youth, his earliest memories are those of “Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember” (ch. 4) This is the first example of obsession that we see in the novel. This drive to learn the ‘hidden’ laws of nature is the original driving force that sets the plot in motion. Without this, Victor would have never embarked on his unholy quest to overcome mortality, thus leading to his creation of his monster.
He not only turned away the being he had brought into the world; he also denied the creature companionship, friendship, and happiness while continuing to seek his own. Victor gained new purpose and even on his deathbed holds to the principle that he is justified in desiring the death of his enemy. Moment before his death he turns to Captain Robert Walton and says, “I feel justified in desiring the death of my adversary. During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; nor do I find it blamable” (156). He even begins to lose the small amount of compassion he had for the creature’s struggle.
In Frankenstein, Victor’s monster suffers much loneliness and pain at the hands of every human he meets, as he tries to be human like them. First, he is abandoned by his creator, the one person that should have accepted, helped, and guided him through the confusing world he found himself in. Next, he is shunned wherever he goes, often attacked and injured. Still, throughout these trials, the creature remains hopeful that he can eventually be accepted, and entertains virtuous and moral thoughts. However, when the creature takes another crushing blow, as a family he had thought to be very noble and honorable abandons him as well, his hopes are dashed. The monster then takes revenge on Victor, killing many of his loved ones, and on the humans who have hurt him. While exacting his revenge, the monster often feels guilty for his actions and tries to be better, but is then angered and provoked into committing more wrongdoings, feeling self-pity all the while. Finally, after Victor’s death, the monster returns to mourn the death of his creator, a death he directly caused, and speaks about his misery and shame. During his soliloquy, the monster shows that he has become a human being because he suffers from an inner conflict, in his case, between guilt and a need for sympathy and pity, as all humans do.
Victor knows that his monster will never leave him to live peacefully, so he thinks that the only way to stop him is to kill him when the monster could easily be calmed if Victor showed him so kindness instead of
An idea becomes a vision, the vision develops a plan, and this plan becomes an ambition. Unfortunately for Victor Frankenstein, his ambitions and accomplishments drowned him in sorrow from the result of many unfortunate events. These events caused Victors family and his creation to suffer. Rejection and isolation are two of the most vital themes in which many dreadful consequences derive from. Victor isolates himself from his family, friends, and meant-to-be wife. His ambitions are what isolate him and brought to life a creature whose suffering was unfairly conveyed into his life. The creature is isolated by everyone including his creator. He had no choice, unlike Victor. Finally, as the story starts to change, the creature begins to take control of the situation. It is now Victor being isolated by the creature as a form of revenge. 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.
Humans are born into this world with different thoughts and emotions, but they experience, not one, but many feelings within one’s self. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley offers readers to search for the truth behind her story through the main characters’ life experiences. A young scientist named Victor Frankenstein attempts to defy death by resurrecting the life of a corpse, which soon becomes a monster in an unfamiliar world. Victor also experiences loneliness and depression while trying to escape from the world. Victor desperately craves for knowledge, yet he doesn’t know that his love for knowledge can blind him. Unfortunately, during his moments of grasping for knowledge, his mother passes away; this leaves him in a state of hatred,
Victor Frankenstein’s inability to control his desires, even when it harms himself and others, proves his guilt in the deaths of his family
The creator of the monster, Victor Frankenstein is a man full of knowledge and has a strong passion for science. He pushes the boundary of science and creates a monster. Knowledge can be a threat when used for evil purposes. Though Victor did not intend for the being to be evil, society’s judgement on the monster greatly affects him. As a result he develops hatred for his creator as well as all man-kind. Victor’s anguish for the loss of his family facilitates his plan for revenge to the monster whom is the murderer. While traveling on Robert Walton’s ship he and Victor continue their pursuit of the monster. As Victor’s death nears he says, “…or must I die, and he yet live? If I do, swear to me Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death…Yet, when I am dead if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live-swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes” (pg.199). Victor grieves the death of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth and his father. Throughout the novel he experiences the five stages of grief, denial/ isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. Victor denies ...
The fact that Frankenstein’s creation turns on him and murders innocent people is never overlooked; it has been the subject of virtually every popularization of the novel. What is not often acknowledged is the fact that Frankenstein himself embodies some of the worst traits of humankind. He is self-centered, with little real love for those who care about him; he is prejudiced, inflexible and cannot forgive, even in death. While some of these traits could be forgivable, to own and flaunt them all should be enough to remind a careful reader that there are two "monsters" in Frankenstein.
Although “Frankenstein” is the story of Victor and his monster, Walton is the most reliable narrator throughout the novel. However, like most narrator’s, even his retelling of Victor’s story is skewed by prejudice and favoritism of the scientist’s point of view. Yet this could be attributed to the only view points he ever gets to truly hear are from Victor himself and not the monster that he only gets to meet after he comes to mourn his fallen master.
Victor Frankenstein's upbringing in a perfect society ultimately led to the destruction of his life which coincided with the lives of those emotionally close to him. Victor was raised in an atmosphere where beauty and physical appearance define one's quality of life. This superficial way of life results in a lost sense of morals and selfishness, which in turn produces a lost sense of personal identity. This can cause a feeling of failure and resentment in the later stages of life which, in Victor's case, can be externalized into a form of hatred directed toward himself.
Victor Frankenstein, the monster’s creator, is the victim of his own pride. An ego unchecked is a dangerous thing. But in truth, it really just shows Victor’s humanity. He is privileged, educated, talented, loved, adored, but he is not perfect. His flaw is his own ego and pride. Without doubt, this is the result of a childhood where he was overindulged. Overindulged to the extent he was given a little girl “Elizabeth” as a “present”, whom he considered from childhood “mine only” (Shelley 21). Little wonder the twenty year old Victor would think he could create, control and command life. But Victor as with any indulged child did not take the time to learn much from his parents about parenting and fath...
In Frankenstein, Shelley creates two very complex characters. They embody the moral dilemmas that arise from the corruption and disturbance of the natural order of the world. When Victor Frankenstein is attending school, he becomes infatuated with creating a living being and starts stealing body parts from morgues around the university. After many months of hard work, he finishes one stormy night bringing his creation to life. However, “now that [Victor] had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled [his] heart” (Chambers). Right after Victor realizes what he has done, he falls into deep depression and must be nursed back to health by his friend. Victor spends the rest of the story facing consequences and moral problems from creating unnatural life. When he realizes that the ‘monster’ has killed his brother, even though no one believes him, he feels responsible for his brother’s murder because he was responsible for the existence of the ‘monster’. Also feeling responsible, Victor...