Yesenia Castro Mr. Diehl English 1102 01 March 2012 Right or Wrong? Frankenstein by Marry Shelly depicts the negative side of an unorthodox scientific experiment. Victor in a way wanted to create a creature to experiment his skills and try to expand life, which in turn turned out to be a catastrophe. Victor had created a monster that created uproar in the society. Later on, that same monster that persuaded Victor to make him to make him a female companion, threatened him and his loved ones.
Both Victor and Frankenstein have a human and demonic side to them. In the beginning of the novel Victor shows many human traits to do with his need for knowledge and for love. However as the story progresses, we see this unloving perturbed, malicious and somewhat dark side of Victor. It is firstly evident in his disgust for his creation when he says. “For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.
The desire to succeed interferes with being happy. A person can get lost in the process of solving a problem so intently that they forget those around them, to eat and even where they are. In Mary Shelley's horrific Frankenstein an example is the character of Victor, whose unnatural pursuit of knowledge, of discovering how to create the perfect being, is so extreme that he loses himself in his creation. Frankenstein follows the story of the brilliant Victor and his many achievements, which go astray after he brings to life a creature in order to sate his own curiosity about the "mysteries" of life. It becomes difficult to picture Victor as a human being because he attains in-human qualities like the ability to go countless hours without eating
Merry Shelly’s Frankenstein explores secrecy and the outcome of an individual who wrestles with the options of revealing the truth or withholding it. Victor Frankenstein is victim of a double sided sword; his secret becomes a leech that is hazardous to his well being. As readers follow through the endless hell put out of Victor's life they learn the nature of his secret, its consequences, and how it contributes to the message Shelly is trying to convey, the belief that secrecy can be destructive by corrupting life and love. Frankenstein begins a quest of creating a human being from scratch. He does not reveal his plan or actions.
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein had Victor Frankenstein as the creator of the monster. Through his creation you can see Victor becoming the monster “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you” (Nietzsche). After Victor Frankenstein’s monster was created he is then set upon a path of his own. The Monsters first encounters with people lead him down a path of himself becoming a monster himself. This is a cycle that is not uncommon and continues in this day and age.
To what extent do you agree with the view that in 'Frankenstein', Mary Shelley is exploring “the dark side of the human psyche”? In Frankenstein, it is understood that "the dark side of human psyche" is the surpressed and forbidden desires or knowledge that the characters hold within them. In Victor's case we see this manifested in his obsession with the darker aspects of modern science at the time, with an extreme focus on galvanisation, and a distaste for some of the more conventional aspects of the craft. This is shon rather early on in his childhood when he begins to study "A would be science that could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge". Here the threshold is represented by the line he crosses when transgressing and creating the monster.
In the novel Frankenstein we see Victor’s technological ambition turn into repulsion as the creation of the monster help him realize the magnitude of his mistakes. “The beauty of my dream vanished, breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”, this shows that Victor was blinded by his ambition and by giving up morality and using technology for his own selfish needs he was not able to foresee the inevitable horrid consequences. On the other hand in Blade Runner the ethical issues of science and technologies are not only portrayed through the creation of the replicants but also by the destruction of nature and its environments. During the beginning of the movie a camera shot from above shows a dark, industrialized city filled with fiery explosions while ominous music is played in the background, the image of the city and non-dijectic sounds portray and emphasise how society has lost sight of what really matters and no longer prioritize
Although sharing little in setting or premise, the texts Frankenstein and Blade Runner share many of the same concerns as they both challenge the values and morals of the societies in which they were set, most notably the notion of what it means to be human, as well as articulating the composers' critique of the advancement in science and technology. Both texts also exhibit the consequences of imprudent creation and the hubris of an individual to rise above and disrupt the natural order. Written in the eighteen hundreds by aggrieved writer Mary Shelley, the novel Frankenstein presents readers with a Romanticist perspective of technology ‘dehumanizing’ mankind as society was not made clear of their indistinct boundaries. Through Victor’s regression, “I, the true murderer, felt the never dying worm alive in my bosom”, the symbols of the ‘worm’ explore the downfall in
In this essay, I will try to explore Victor Frankenstein’s characterization, in terms of his humanity considering his experiences, and his narration. My aim in trying to explore Frankenstein’s characterization is to show that although the appearance of the creature was resembled a monster; it could not be defined as monster. It cannot be denied that the creature behaved mercilessly and he was accused of murdering even though he was good hearted. However, the creature could not present his feelings and thoughts to anyone as his appearance was monstrous. So, Victor Frankenstein was guilty as he created the creature, and left him alone.
He longs to determine what animates it, what constitutes the principle of life. Seized by a supernatural enthusiasm, he begins to explore life by studying its inevitable counterpart death. Victor discovers the secret of how to generate life through a sudden epiphany. He does not, however, share the content of this revelation with Walton and us the reader, because his own knowledge resulted in misery and