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Frankenstein Purpose And Feelings Of Accomplishment Analysis

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It’s one of the most amazing experiences to create something and have it turn out to work. For example, baking cookies without using a recipe from a cookbook, or fixing an alternator in a car to make it run correctly. We feel energetic and excited when we accomplish a task at hand and feel as though we’re on top of the world. Furthermore, the article, Purpose and Feelings of Accomplishment by Peter Fleming, director of the Pellin Institute, enlightens, “With purpose we can understand where our feelings of accomplishment come from, how they...take on shapes that enable us to see our future as hopeful and exciting.” Fleming makes a point about accomplishments giving people joy and excitement, but he also mentions the idea of purpose, which is …show more content…

Since Frankenstein rejected the monster and was frightened by its appearance, several other people felt the same way and rejected the monster as well. This made the monster feel like an outcast and irrelevant to the world that surrounded him. Since he gained knowledge on his own, he was able to set up revenge plans against his creator. He begins killing each and every one of Frankenstein’s loved ones. Furthermore, the monster admits, “I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept,” (page 1970). It is evident that the monster is destructive, but only does so because Frankenstein, being his creator, wouldn’t show him love and affection. The monster also wants a mate and becomes furious about the doctors rejection to creating him a mate. He, the monster, first started out being a descent creature but felt isolated from every other living thing on the planet. As addressed previously, Frankenstein creates a beast in hope of inventing life back from the dead, but it leads him to pain and …show more content…

With this in mind, it is easy to blame Frankenstein for those that were lost due to the hands of the monster. The scientists explains, “I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created,” (page 164). Frankenstein keeps it a secret about the terrible beast that he created. If he were to have told his loved ones about his invention several people could have be warned and also helped capture the monster. Since he rejected the monster the creature wanted revenge and had an advantage over the doctor since Frankenstein had not told anyone about the monster. Furthermore, Frankenstein lost all of his loved ones and soon died after while on the search for his creation. Due to his selfishness and obsession with science, Frankenstein loses everything that he ever

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