What is This?

We all have characteristics that come from our parents as well as from ourselves. In Frankenstein Victor was an example of how someone’s child ends up different from their parents. The monster in the novel showed how cruelty and abandonment can affect a person’s mentality. Shelley tries to show the readers that loneliness is the worst thing that could ever happen to someone. It is just as bad as death; loneliness is the worst kind of murder.
Our characteristics we have are related to the characteristics that our parents have. We grow into ourselves by the caring from our parents and depending on what their characteristics are, we may be like them or we may be completely different. Victor is an example as to how someone’s child may end up different than his or her parents. Victor has been raised in a very loving family. Victor’s parents were loving, doting, and nurturing people. His mother and father were kind parents who loved all of their children and even adopted some children. They gave their time, money and encouragement to their children. All they wanted was for their children to have a good education and goals for themselves. Victor was given the perfect childhood and for some reason grows up a little indulged and perhaps because he is selfish. He is stubborn and unyielding. For years he studies all sorts of theories scientists who claim many false things such as alchemy. When Victor leaves and goes to university, his professors make fun of these scientists and yet Victor stubbornly sticks to their theories before he begins to believe the professors. When he created the monster, he never once thinks about the wisdom of doing such a thing. When the monster proves hideous and fearful, Victor thinks of himself, abandons the m...

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...was going to eat him, even when the monster repeatedly said he wasn’t going to. It upset him so much that it just pushed him over the edge. You would do the same thing. Shelley is trying to show that people shouldn’t base their judgements on appearances, because its whats on the inside that counts.
Characteristics are passed through parents and grandparents just as they are established with how you are raise. Victor had a wonderful childhood and yet he turned out completely different than his parents. Power can be death. The power that Victor wanted, drove him mad. He brought to life a creature that was as compassionate as him, but he treated it as a monster and lead him to killing everyone that Victor loved. The creature made Victor feel as lonely as he was. Shelley tries to communicate with her audience the effect of loneliness between people throughout life.