Victor went to find out the murderer of his brother William. He has to cross a lake and he sees his monster standing on the bank. He immediately realizes his monster killed his brother but he allows an innocent girl to be convicted. The quote is significant because Victor knows that Justine is innocent. He allows an innocent girl to be convicted because he did not want anyone to know he unleashed a monster on the world. Along with the death of his brother, he has another death on his hands. The importance is that Victor’s monster is responsible for the death of two people and Victor has to live with that guilt. Victor “betrayed” the servant girl by not speaking up for her. He also “betrayed” the monster by running away from it and “betrayed”
...t the monster, so there is no one who can back up his story. At the trial, Justine is found guilty and she is sentenced to death. Since Victor does not speak up at Justine’s trial, her death is the result of his silence.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818 about the scientist Victor Frankenstein who committed sin-filled crimes of pride for his own personal benefit, but redeems himself by confession. Shelley wrote this novel for the sole purpose to warn “all men make mistakes, But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repair the evil; the only crime is pride” Man should not play God and should apologize for his mistakes committed. In the work, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley drives Dr. Victor Frankenstein to pursue morally wrong, selfish, and prideful crimes that eventually lead to his redemption; however, not without compromising his life, the lives of others, and his immortal soul.
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves” is a quote from Chinese philosopher, Confucius, that immaculately describes the knowledge the characters in the story of Frankenstein lacked. In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the main character, Victor Frankenstein, creates a creature whom he abandons soon after. After the abandonment the creature gets treated horribly by other humans, feeling alone in a world where there was no other like him. This causes the creature to feel hate towards his creator, whom he continuously tries to seek revenge from. The desire for revenge transforms the creature into a true monster that has no feelings or aspirations beyond destroying Victor, leading to his miserable death.
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”-John Green, an American author of young adult fiction, such as The Fault in Our Stars, and the YouTube blogger of crash course history. The mythological character Prometheus and Victor from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, try to influence mankind in a positive way, but instead the result is detrimental to society. Victor and Prometheus both want to help mankind, regardless, both overstep their bounds, and are severely punished. Although their true characters are revealed through how they handle their suffering.
Despite the rash actions that Victor takes, he ultimately does assume complete responsibility for the creature that he brought into being. After the monster murders William, Justine is then tried for the murder. Victor accepts that it was his fault even though he was not the one that actually murdered him: "But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation" (74). Victor felt as if he had actually murdered both children because he had created the murderer. Even though in the end Justine took the official blame, Victor seized the responsibility so he took steps towards catching the monster and stopping him from killing anyone else. If he was not concerned with it being his fault one way or another he would not have continued to try to put the monster to rest. Later on, while Victor is creating a companion for the monster, he realizes the implications of a second creation: "Had I right, for my own benefit, t...
This challenge which brewed deep within Victor makes him forget about his own life and leads him into isolation and a complete concentration on project. Blinded by his quest, Victor is unable to measure the consequences of what he is trying to do. Victor returns home feeling frustrated and feeling as though all his hard work had ended in the utmost failure. In addition, Victor feels guilty, realizing that his creation is the cause of his little brother’s death. During this time, he also encounters that an innocent victim, Justine, is sentenced and condemned, a person of great significance, someone like a sister, to the love of his life, Elizabeth. In analyzing the following paragraph, the reader is able to see the difficulty that Victor has in expressing his emotions.
One test for the greatness of a work, whether it be literature, art, or something else , is provocative nature, that asks people to delve deep into the nature to understand. The Odyssey, Iliad, Beowulf, all of those works have stood the test of time, and reached the modern era still still inspiring countless readers with their greatness. Frankenstein is another such work that has stood the tests of time. Since its creation in 1816, there have been numerous recreations of the same story, all focusing upon different aspects of this enduring work. Love and acceptance is a theme that plays inside every interaction of the novel, and permeates through the entire work. The question of whether or not the monster can love is one that is frequently asked. While some would say that the monster can not love, because he is cursed and abandoned by God, those people are wrong. Every being posses the ability to love, and the monster is no exception to this, despite his physical appearance. Frankenstein is set in the perspective of Victor Frankenstein, who despises the monster, so the narrative is skewed to paint the monster in the worst possible light. In examining the novel, the monster can in fact love, and firmly desires to do so, but because of reasons at first beyond his control, then because of his choices, he is never given the opportunity to show his love. The monster, above all things wants to love and be loved, but the world rejects him, thus turning him into the monster that stalks the world.
The wise Uncle Ben once told Peter Parker, “remember, with great power. Comes great responsibility.” There is no greater power than that acquired by the infamous Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein when he discovers the secret to creating life. Shelley’s Frankenstein is a tale of creation that depicts acts of human conception and discovery. The Oxford English Dictionary defines creation as “the action or process of bringing something into existence from nothing by divine or natural agency; the fact of being so created.” It defies the natural order of things and creates a world of its own. The multiple acts of creation and discovery bring upon a certain set of responsibilities and implications as depicted by David Collings who analyzes the responsibilities that come as a result of these acts in his essay “The Monster and the Maternal Thing: Mary Shelley’s Critique of Ideology”. The main act of creation is evident through Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the Being which is depicted most prominently in the novel. However, there are multiple other acts of creation and discovery that may not be apparent at first sight. One of the most important being, Victor’s discovery of the knowledge required to create life. Apart from initially creating the Being, Victor also plays a critical role in the Being’s evolution into a raging and vengeful creature. Perhaps above all other acts of creation and discovery is Victor’s personal creation of himself into a monster. As stated by Collings most of these acts of creation on Victor’s part are subconsciously brought upon because of their lack of a maternal figure but also in part because of his desire for fame and glory. However, he is blinded by his motives and forgets that with his...
In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, cruelty is a frequent theme and different acts of cruelty are committed almost every chapter. Victor Frankenstein abandoned his creation because of its grotesque face and destroyed any chance if the monster getting a mate, and the monster kills everyone Frankenstein loves out of spite. In Frankenstein, the different acts of cruelty that are imposed onto Frankenstein and his creation help reveal their true character
Victor’s lack of compassion and sympathy towards the monster causes him to become angry instead of guilty. His cruelness to his creation made the monster kill and hurt the people he did but “when [he] reflected on [the monster’s] crimes and malice, [Victor’s] hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation,”(Shelley 325). Without compassion Victor thinks that the only way to stop the monster is to get revenge on him, instead of just giving him the empathy and kindness that monster craved. Victor realizes that "if he were vanquished, [he] should be a free man...balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue [him] until death. ”(Shelley 731).
As “Great Expectations”, by Charles Dickens, progresses the reader sees the growth of Pip, and his struggle to find his creator. For Pip being and or receiving a creator would be a guide for him as he navigates through his life events. When Victor Frankenstein, from Frankenstein says, “No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs” (Frankenstein, 32). What Victor is saying is that he deserves to be not only a creator to his creature, but to himself. This can relate to Pip, Because Pip’s parents are dead; he deserves to be his own creator. However, Pip intends on becoming a self-creation, in an attempt to fill the whole of the legacy that is missing in his life, for Pip must seek achievement through a creator-created relationship.
In 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was anonymously published. In the story, the title character brings to life a monstrous creature that reflects his own feelings of worthlessness and destruction. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein compares himself to a blasted tree when he says, ‘But I am a blasted tree’ (Shelley 114-115). Ironically, this quote relates more to the life of the creature than Victor Frankenstein’s life. Mary Shelley uses the metaphor of a blasted tree to emphasize the destruction of not just Victor Frankenstein’s but also the creature’s ties to humanity, his self-worth, and his failure.
After finish the creation, he immediately runs away claiming that he was protecting his life which adds to his selfishness and monstrosity since his selfish proves that he is evil and cruel. However the truth is he is disgusted by the sight of his creation so he abandons it leaving it all alone in the world without any guidance throughout society. He let the creature to wonder off by itself from place to place with hatred. So not only is Victor selfish but he is shallow as well, instead of realizing that he achieved his goal of bringing life to an inanimate body he runs away because of how hideous it is. Victor is also the one to blame for Justine's death, because if he decided to help her in the first place then she could not have got executed and sense to death. Victor was selfish to Justine because of his cruel action. Victor knew that Justine is innocence when he stated “She is innocent, my Elizabeth,”(Shelly, 53) however he is really selfish enough to just stay quiet and only think about his own self. Instead of defending Justine from the accusation, Victor was only feel sorry that this inocence girl will died. When he rushed out from the courtroom also show his selfish side which happen after the decision has made that Justine is guilty. Victor stated “I could not sustain the horror of my situation, and when I perceived that the popular voice and the countenances of the judges had already condemned my unhappy victim. I rushed out of the court in agony”(Shelly, 57). Instead of saving the life of the housekeeper who has already been through so much in her life, Victor keeps his secret in order to maintain his good image. He was afraid to speak out the truth about what is right and wrong. After Justine’s death, he knew that he is the one to blame but despite to his selfishness, he doesn't care what others think and feel. He knew that he must live and try to observe new
Mary Shelley’s adamant position on Tabula Rasa is conveyed throughout her science fiction novel, Frankenstein, which entails the miserable life of Victor Frankenstein's Creature. The experiences and treatment the Creature receives from the world around him all add onto his blank slate. She uses the Creature’s lessons, trials, treatment, and goals to show how the environment affect the Creature’s behaviour in both a positive and negative light. When the Creature is first brought to life, Victor’s neglect is evident when he recalls, “I had covered myself with some clothes..I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain...I sat down and wept” (119). Victor’s is callous and negligent towards his
Death is a slippery concept, I’ve surely never managed to grasp the idea. Wrapping your head around it is like grappling with a bar of soap. There’s no use trying to make sense of it, it’s only a matter of time until we find out what it’s like. That being said, some have too fun of a life and their last wish is to find out. I would go through hell and all the way back, in order to be able to dive, head first, in the fountain of youth. However, to believe in the idea that dabbling one’s feet in a certain puddle, would in turn restore health and, let alone, youth, seems somewhat delusional. In spite of immortality not really being thing, you can actually go about immortalising your name. It’s fairly simple; you just have to be the “first one”.