In the novel Frankenstein, author Marry Shelley depicts character Victor Frankenstein as a scientist with a strong passion for forbidden knowledge and finding the answers to life through science. Though his intentions are good this leads him to the creation of a monster. Throughout the novel Frankenstein is constantly encountered by obstacles that test his passions for science and responsibility for his creation. For Victor it seems that the choice to abandon the monster is the easier path, rather than taking care of his creation. In the beginning of the book, right after the creation of the monster, Victor fled his home to get away from the creature, only to return and find that it had escaped.
As a result of Victor’s pursuit of scientific knowledge and the desire to infuse life, he created a very grotesque creature that murdered his loved ones. The very act of creating such a monster makes the deaths of those innocent people Victor's fault. Although the monster physically murdered Victor's loved ones, I easily concluded that if Victor had not been successful in his endeavour to create such a monster, then the lives of those closest to Victor would have been spared such tragic fates. As the creator, Victor is responsible for the actions of his monster. However, the creation of the monster did not have to result in such horrific acts.
A part where the movie and book differs is the types of body parts Victor Frankenstein comprises the monsters body with. In the book, Frankenstein believed he put together a beautiful body by providing yellow skin which would cover the workings of the muscles and arteries, long flowing black lustrous hair, and pearly white teeth. What Victor Frankenstein visualized as a beautiful creation turned out to be the complete opposite mental image of his creation. In today’s society, plastic surgery plays in a similar role in what Victor Frankenstein did in his goal of creating life. Some people have gone the lengths for physical alteration or to achieve the perfect body image via plastic surgery.
After escaping their creators, both Stitch and the Creature wish to either learn their purpose or make a new life purpose. Stitch knows that his creator, Dr. Jumba, made him to be a weapon, but it is evident that Stitch doesn’t want that kind of life. Unable to return to the only “home” he knew, Stitch flies off and crash lands on Earth. For the Frankenstein Creature, after escaping his creator, he comes upon a remote cottage and learns to speak by eavesdropping on the family that lived there. After a while, the Creature seeks out Dr. Frankenstein to learn his purpose for living.
Frankenstein’s abandonment of the Creature arguably leads to many of the events that later occur in Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Only too late does Frankenstein realise it was his duty to care for his creation when instead he had fled and left it to survive alone in the world. This neglect of his duty showed Frankenstein to be weak and the creature later uses this weakness to seek his revenge. The Creature always lacked a parental figure to help and teach him. He only realises this though when he observes the De Lacey family.
In Chapter 22, Victor Frankenstein states that his father believes that Victor’s claims of William, Justine and Henry dying by his own hand are simply products of his imagination, that he has forced himself to believe through the productivity of his mental illness. The significance of this statement to Victor’s relationship with his father sparked a much wider range of thought in my way of thinking. What if, when Frankenstein first collected the parts of his monster and attempted to bring it back to life, he was unsuccessful? Yet, in the mind of Victor, he was victorious in creating life. In a situation that is akin to a combination of the famous story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the novel-turned-movie Shutter Island, the novel of Frankenstein, in this sense, takes place entirely in the mind of Frankenstein, notably including the section of the novel from the point of view of the monster.
The ending of the story, when Victor almost chases to monster to the north pole, is also a glimmering example of how Victor has changed internally from a Geneva, to a cold, harsh, inhuman monster. The main characters, Victor and the monster, are both interesting mixes of good, as well as evil. Victor, on the one hand, is good in the sense that he wants to understand science to further humanity. He does have an ugly side, however. For example, Victor abandons his monster after he creates it because he realizes what he has done.
II Chapter II, Page 117). The monster made Frankenstein listen, because as Frankenstein was his creator, he owed it to the monster to hear his story. The monster swore to leave Frankenstein in peace if he met the monster’s demands; otherwise, the monster would destroy Frankenstein’s family. After a lot of contemplation, Frankenstein decides to listen, and goes to the fire in the ice cave with the monster. The monster starts to recount the story of his life once they are inside.
"The accomplishment of his toils" is the creature, created from human body parts Frankenstein harvested from graveyards (34). Frankenstein’s motivation for creating this abomination is his desire to play God: "It was the secrets of heaven and earth that [he] desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied [him]" (22). As Frankenstein becomes consumed in his
He then used electricity to give life to his creature. By making the monster, he was taking the place of God, or according to the myth, the god Prometheus, and became the creator instead of just the created. “Prometheus knows the good consequences that his acts and his pride will have to mankind, but Frankenstein acts without stopping to think what could happen after” (Pastelero). Although Frankenstein does become a creator by creating the monster, he does not care for his creation in the way Prometheus cared for his humans he created. Frankenstein was not a good creator, he was actually trying desperately to kill his monster he made.