God creates “a perfect creature, happy and prosperous”, victor creates a monster who is “wretched, helpless, and alone”. God offers his creation “the especial care”, and “was allowed to converse with, and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature”. Victor “(forms) a monster so hideous that even (he) turned (him) in disgust.” Apparently, the monster is trying to make a contrast between him and “Adam”,Victor Frankenstein and “God”. From the monster’s pespective, he is simply trying to make his creator feel guilty by comparing him to another creator,”God”. However, from the author’s pespective, she is using a great deal of biblical symbolism to convey the theme of the story.
Mary Shelley’s work of literature, Frankenstein, conveys her negative attitudes towards scientific issues of her time. With the use of Victor Frankenstein and the monster, Shelley is able to depict that the curiosity of science leads to negative impacts in society. Frankenstein is portrayed as a man full of interest in natural philosophy. Although his eager learning and experimenting for science is unlimited, he builds a monster that causes low credibility, betrayal and conviction for Frankenstein and those surrounding him. Fame being one of Frankenstein’s prime motive for creating a superhuman portrays that he does not realize his motive will cause low credibility.
This being you must create.” (Smith, 128) One of the similarities between The Monster and Victor Frankenstein is both of them are very smart and determined. Victor Frankenstein was very determined on the theories he has read will work. With his own pure determination, he created The Monster. Although he had
However, I feel no more fear toward him now but only pity and sympathy. If he was in front of me, I would hug him and cry together for his tragedy. This novel, Frankenstein, is not the amusing horror story that conveys thrill to the readers all the time, but opaque story that makes reader think more seriously toward the world and themselves. Irresponsible Frankenstein who created the monster and left him behind and the monster which wanted to get harmony with human but
In addition, he did nothing to stop the monster of striking again because he didn’t want to destroy what he had created. Dr. Frankenstein traits reveal the potential for his heinous doings. All of his actions lead to satisfying his self-center ends. Some of his traits may make him out to be a shrinking violet, however there’s more than the meets of the eyes. Mad scientist is the best way to describe Dr. Frankenstein.
What he saw was black and white, and the issue stayed the same even after he altered the very fabric of his reality. But this monster he had created was no demon, it was in fact lonely and misplaced because of his creator’s own ‘morals’ which caused him to deny his own son, cast him out into the cold, and deny him any rights of being called human. It was Frankenstein’s morals that interfered with this brilliant mind, causing it to go abnormal and violent. If Frankenstein were to treat this creation as brilliance he had done before animation, then perhaps the tragedy of Frankenstein would have played out differently. If he had treated his science as progressive, instead of being evil, the outcome of the science would revolutionize the
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, we are introduced to Victor Frankenstein; a man obsessed with discovering the secret to creating life. While his goals appear somewhat benevolent; "wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!" (p. 42), he seeks the fame and glory that would come with
However, the `inarticulate sounds which broke from (it) frightened (it) into silence again'. Romanticism of Frankenstein `the beauty of the dream vanished' as luxuriances such as `lustrous black' hair and `teeth of a pearly whiteness' only formed a more `horrid contrast with his watery eyes'. (1) He entreats Victor to “remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel.” By comparing Victor to God, the monster heaps responsibility for his evil actions upon Victor, scolding him for his neglectful failure to provide a nourishing environment. (2) The second quote: emphasises the irresponsible creator that Frankenstein is. Instead of guiding the creature, teaching it from right from wrong, supporting the creature, he immediately creates an enemy with his creation and enforces war and hostility upon the creature, giving it no choice but to defend itself from its creator and
Unlike its creator, the monster did not choose to be alienated. It desired more than anything the experiences and relationships Frankenstein was so willing to abandon for his scientific ambition. Countless attempts were made by the creature to establish a healthy relationship with the humans he held in such high esteem, regarding them as a species of love and intelligence. The newborn creature trusted humankind with the naïve confidence of a being who had never known rejection, simply over brimming with hope and admiration. But it was harshly rejected time after time and upon observing their disgust at the mere sight of the monster, all preconceptions of humans as beautiful loving creatures were shattered and it was left embittered by their crueler
‘Frankenstein’ and the so called ‘Monster’ Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ examines human nature. A first time reader may be used to the unfaithful Hollywood adaptions of this timeless masterpiece but can find profound levels of depth and meaning in the art of Shelley’s storytelling. The creature in the story is a creation of Victor Frankenstein who is obsessed by "a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature" (Shelley 21). It is the creatures treatment by society and his creator Frankenstein that leads him to indulge in vengeful and evil behavior. Although this behavior is horrible and not at all sane or acceptable, it does not mean that the creature is an animal or ‘monster.’ Some people, legally and illegally, commit and enjoy