Frankenstein Redemption Quotes

Emerson Young

Mrs. Harvey

English 11

7 November 2022

Redemption is Obtainable “Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities. And therefore think him as a serpent's egg which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous and kill him in the shell.” (Shakespeare) This quote beckons the question, do people have hope to change, even if everything is against them? Yes, always. Hope keeps people alive, it gives the person, or thing, something to look forward to. It helps people want to become something. The hope of changing is hoping you defy the odds of your situation, even when society tells you there isn't a chance. The book of Frankenstein sadly, does not prove that there is hope. The hope of redemption

His life set him up for everything he needed, a good, happy, and normal life. Walton refused. He did nothing but seek to be great, there is not anything wrong with that, but he took it to an extreme. His whole life he needed the approval of everyone around him to feel like he succeeded. “... for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common, and read nothing but our uncle Thomas’s books of voyages. Now I am twenty-eight and in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.” (Shelley 14) Walton was given an education, but chose to read his uncles books. He did not believe in himself to attack actual school. This affected him for the rest of his life. He swore he needed to discover a new path to the arctic. He almost died for that cause. Luckily, he came across his new best friend, Victor. Victor taught him that he needed to just live and stop searching for greatness. Victor wanted to be great, and Victor died because of it. Walton learned from Victor and

He messed up very badly when he created the creature, but he could’ve redeemed himself. He did in fact have hope. He grew up wealthy and believed he would be something great. He hoped his experiments would work. He had more hope in his creation becoming alive than making his creature feel alive. “One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.” (Shelley 45) He had enough hope set out for him to redeem him and the monster he created. All he had to do was help this creature. Julius’s cabinet did not think Julius was going in the right direction, so they murdered him. Victor did not create the companion for the creature because he was worried of what he would become. The hope he could’ve given himself and his creature would have saved both of them from their