The plot of the story is based on Oskar’s father’s death. After Oskar finds the key in his father’s room he is determined to find the lock that belongs to it. Throughout the book he takes us through his eight month journey to finding this very key. Oskar uses the eight month plan to keep himself distracted from the pain he felt from his father’s death. The effects of the accident (violence) inflicted emotional pain and stress on people, especially his family.
His mother’s death and his strong feeling that her death was unjust spur him on: “The agony of losing my mother to this vile sickness, I cannot bear it” (23). Victor finds a way to achieve his goal by creating a new species which would not be prone to illness and disease; life would become “strong and beautiful” (56). He even talks about getting rid of death entirely. With his experiments he finally manages to bestow life to a dead creature: he has taken on “God-like” powers.
Andy is a journalist for the same local newspaper that Nick works for; during the weekend Andy’s life reaches a climatic point as he toys with the concept of suicide after having to report on the questionable train accident. Andy is put under even more stress as he finds out that his girlfriend, Anna, has fallen pregnant which impacts both of them heavily as neither had planned or wanted a baby. Andy’s ex-wife gives him more to cope with by not trusting him to take good care of his children, and tries to delay their visits with him. As Andy struggles with the
He then becomes afraid of the monster and treats him as an outcast like the rest of community does. Victor tries to run away and forget about the monster, but that is a nearly impossible task as well. Throughout the novel, Victor will never try to care for his creation or love him. Victor's unsurpassed disgust and embarrassment will keep him from taking responsibility towards what I can
Victor Frankenstein’s claim that there can be no ‘community’ or overall , kinship between the creature and himself basically means that he does not want any sort of relation with his creation as he considers him less of a human and more of a monster. My opinion on this is that I completely disagree with his claim. Mainly on the basis of the most obvious reason which is it’s his creation and as the maker he has a certain responsibility for the creature. Not only this but the creature craves attention just like a child from his parents, Frankenstein rejects him which throws the creature in a spiral of hatred to mankind. On the basis
However the main factor driving and building the plot is the element of madness. The term madness is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as either a disorder of the mind or a behaviour whereby a person flouts societal norms and may become a danger to him and others. One day, Hamlet returns to his home, Denmark’s palace to find his father, King Hamlet, dead. Still mourning and recovering from the death of his father, his mother, Gertrude marries Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle. Soon after, the young prince is visited by a ghost that resembled the appearance of his dead past father.
He requires isolation from family and friends when committing to perilous journey of unlocking the secrets to life in best intentions “pour a torrent of light into our dark world”. The reason to reject emotional connections is never truly revealed in the novel yet this could be deciphered as either his secrecy towards ambition or because he is ashamed by harvesting resources from the recently dead. Upon creating the creature, he despises his creation and abandon’s it. He refuses to take responsibility for his product, leaving it to rot by itself. These negative externalities, generated from Victor’s pursuit of “enlightenment” again reinforces Shelley’s theme of the inevitable downfall of humanity should the Neo Classical theory be allowed to dominate.
“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.” (Shelley 75) However, Victor cannot explain the truth because he is afraid people will think he is crazy. He is convicted knowing that the monster caused the death of his own family member and the execution of Justine. Shelley conveys that the scientific attitudes of Victor creating the monster made Victor feel
In the story point of view Victor also betrayed God. Victor’s way of grieving his mother’s death is to get obsessed with death and to bring something dead, or rather, a compilation of many dead something’s, back to life. He caught up so much in his ideas and his plans that he forgot about God and the way things should be created so he decided to challenge himself and bring back to life
Perhaps this is why he killed his father. He may have blamed his father for the condemnation. Since he could not know whether or not Jesus raised the dead he chose nihilism. His whole life became one of cruelty. Since his life didn’t matter—neither did anyone else’s.