Because of the monster's cruel act of causing death, Victor faces inevitable conviction. Justine confesses she is the murderer of Victor's brother, William, when she was placed on trial. However, she is innocent and claims she is the murderer hoping to gain salvation. Not only does Justine blame herself, Victor knows she has nothing to do with the case and he feels horrible. “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.
Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!” (M. Shelly, Frankenstein, Chapter 10) Frankenstein’s reasons for creating the monster was that he was so utterly obsessed with life itself he wanted to create a being that would never die out of his mother’s memory so no one else felt his pain, So mainly the reasons for him rejecting the monster is because it was nothing he expected and especially creating it out of his mother’s memory he felt the need to reject
Victor’s action to run away caused William’s death and made Justine look like the killer when the evidence was planted from the blood. I see it as Victor was never going to be truly happy because there was so much he really didn’t know and could not handle the whole situation. People during the Enlightenment tried to handle many things on their own but certain things should just not be touched or you will find out the hard way. It was like finding a million dollars in the street and keeping it thinking no one would ever trace back to finding you because it was something that huge. He paid his price and it was a great one, the role of God is not to be played
Victor Frankenstein Victor lacks both trustworthiness and responsibility for his actions. Victor when he creates the monster he thought it was a blessing, and if the monster turned out to be a good thing he would have been bragging about it to anyone and everyone. But since the monster ended up killing multiple people Victor went in hiding and never admitted that all these innocent people were dyeing which show his lack of both responsibility and trustworthiness. When Justine gets arrested for the killing of William Victor does nothing. He knows it was the monster that killed William but Victor never says a word.
I am exactly how he has created me, and if he hadn’t hurt me the way he did by abandoning me, maybe I would be “normal”. If this isn’t what he wanted, what is? He toyed with my emotions, and played with my mind. Society treated me like a monster without knowing even who I was, how old my mind was and how much I knew about people’s environment. Instead they immediately treated me as if I was an outsider, someone who would
In order to analyze Frankenstein, one must recall some elements of people's imaginary, as well as old scholars' concepts regarding this famous and ingenious work of Romantic literature. The background in which the author Mary Shelley was inserted to, as well as its importance in introducing readers to a certain type of moral dilemma that was dealt with by several authors of that era, aside from stamping a whole new genre in itself, which was science-fiction. This article briefly discusses the main thematic elements of the novel, inserted in a certain context, under a revenge and betrayal bias, which are ultimately the main triggers of the dramatic action. To start with, it is interesting to mention one of the richest elements of the story. The duality of Victor Frankenstein and its creation is obvious.
Soumitra Sarkar ENGL 220 Section 62 Instructor: Mikael Awake Frankenstein Research Proposal 04/22/2015 Frankenstein Research Proposal - Human Nature Branching off of the third topic of the research prompt, I’m making a proposal to work on how Shelly has portrayed human nature in Frankenstein. In the novel, Dr. Frankenstein makes a monster from the best body parts and yet others reject that monster along with it’s own creator. The status quo is that humans are naturally accepting and good people. However, in every single instance, the monster in the novel is rejected. Initially the monster seeks to somehow befriend others.
Outward appearances are deceiving in this novel because the real monster is not in physical form. By trying to create life artificially and destroy death itself, Victor rises against natural laws; which have been ruling the world for millions of years and continues to til this day. Victor, at first, has this “God-like” perception of himself when he is successful at giving artificial life to his creation. But that soon changes when the physical attributes of his creation is in monster form. He then becomes afraid of the monster and treats him as an outcast like the rest of community does.
Another real-life example can be seen in the settlers during the colonization of America. The people in each example all have varied reasons for their questioning, but they all share one significant motive – their relentless curiosity. In the 1818 novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the first character the reader
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