The tragic vision of the theme is explained by the suffering brought upon others by victor. Victor changes over the course of the novel from an innocent youth fascinated by the prospects of science into a disillusioned, guilt - ridden man determined to destroy the thing of his arrogant scientific endeavor. Which introduces the theme of the novel of advancing science and the consequences when used in the wrong way. Victor is doomed by his lack of humanness and naivete. He cuts himself off from the world and eventually commits himself entirely to an animalistic obsession with revenge against the monster. The monster was Victor Frankenstein's first victim, which ended with his downfall. Victor’s creation enters life eight feet tall and enormously …show more content…
Victor has caused him so much suffering and sadness, which makes him want to inflict the most painful thing known to man, every loved one being killed off one by one. When the monster kills victor's wife, he is deprived of almost every form of female companionship at once, just as he has done to the monster. Elizabeth dies because at a crucial moment victor overlooks her. The monster tells him “I will be with you on your wedding night”. It never occurs to him that the monster threatens elizabeth. Henry shares Victor's desire to achieve great things at any cost. Victor is a hypocrite because he relies on him as a friend and values their friendship, yet he doesn’t let the monster have a chance at something like …show more content…
Despite having taken comfort in the lakes and mountains of Geneva, during one of his lowest points. Victor is in awe but also horrid by it. Victor wishes to undo what nature has taken away from him. But this ultimately comes back to bite, when he crates then abandons his creation. In this book, nature both heals and destroys. Nature shelters both victor and the monster during the story. Though nature shelters them they have vastly different experiences and also mindsets. In victor’s life, the idea of the world comes up a lot. Nature shows his growth through poetic devices. It affects what he sees and feels. When victor was in a storm where william was murdered he says “a flash of light….” or when he was creating the monster, it was nice outside and beautiful. In rough times it helped him see the truth, incited fascination in him, and shows his development in different aspects. Victor takes advantage of nature's hospitality. The monster is symbolic of victor’s attempt at what nature has been doing all along. Similarities of lightning hitting next to you and revenge against someone that leads to hurting their loved one. When lightning hits next to you it still affects you, just like when someone hurts someone’s loved ones to incite pain to the intended person. The lightning symbolizes victor, but can also be seen as a sort of punishment for what victor has done. It’s a force of nature that just cannot
Due to Victor's convenience of getting sick after major events in his life, he is unable to face the consequences of them and act accordingly due to the fact that he is unable to attend to them due to his wellbeing. When Victor's wife; Elizabeth, is killed by his creation, it had “...a grin was on [his] face” and “...seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife. ”(Shelly 197). Due to Victor never taking the responsibility of creating the monster due to his sickness, he was unable to raise and monitor the actions it had. Due to his lack of responsibility and the consequence of him becoming ill, it led him to face the karma of his dead wife, and more of his loved ones.
He led her to an underserved death, and has the audacity to claim he feels more miserable than anybody else. He only thinks about his own feelings and not how other people may be experiencing worse, like for example, Justine. Another instance of this circumstance is when he decides not to tell Elizabeth, his future-wife, about the creature’s words, “I’ll be with you on your wedding night.” In the moment that Elizabeth is murdered by the creature after their marriage, Victor thinks, “Suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. The whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fiber was suspended.”
When Victor is on his way home, he stops at the site of his brother’s murder. While he was there, it began to storm violently. Victor is happy for the first time in a while, and said this would serve as William’s funeral, but things turn quickly when he sees the monster. After sight of the creature, Victor realizes he is the murderer, and sits outside there all night. “No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent cold and wet, in the open air” (63.) At first, the rain brings Victor a sense of joy because he loves being surrounded by nature.
This starts off a chain of events, specifically a chain of death, that impacts Victor’s life, and shows the monster has no impulse control. When the monster finds Victor’s journals and realizes his true feelings towards him, that furthers the monsters anger and makes him want to lash out even more (91). Eventually, after Victor decides not to make a female monster, Henry is killed, and it is assumed that the monster had something to do with it (127). One of the final murders in the book is that of Elizabeth (141). This murder Victor knows for sure was the monster, and at this point it is Victor who is searching for revenge.
Nature would be his eternal escape from seclusion on Earth. Victor too surrounded himself with nature, but for the purpose of finding peace. Nature was Victor’s outlet in times of struggle and doubt. When Victor had to hide the creature from his family and wept at the loss of his brother, he isolated himself in nature to find
The monster then accounts that he was a light-hearted soul at first, but people made him do the things he does, like killing Victor’s loved ones and framing others for crimes. Many themes prevail in the story, and the story, therefore, is a masterpiece in and of itself. “Nature is sublime” is one theme. “The dangers of alienating others” is another. The theme that this
The monster ends up asking Victor to create a mate that would be able to keep him company. Victor agrees but ends up not going through with it. This causes the Monster to reach his breaking point. He wants to seek revenge against Victor in hopes to show how much pain and anguish he has so selfishly caused. Although Victor isn’t the one who kills his loved ones, he still feels responsible.
Victor came from a privileged family and decided he wanted to play god, which is when he created the monster. It was selfish of Victor to create the monster and leave without explaining the world it. After reading this essay I think you will also have sympathy for the monster. Sympathy is when you have feelings of pity or sorrow towards someone 's misfortune (Oxford Dictionaries, 1998).
At the beginning of the novel, Victor is consumed with the idea of creating life, and he pours all of his energy and passion into his project. However, when he finally succeeds in bringing his creation to life, he is horrified by its appearance and immediately recoils from it. As the novel progresses, Victor's relationship with his creation becomes increasingly strained. He is tormented by guilt and fear, and he becomes convinced that his creation is evil and must be destroyed. Meanwhile, the creature is also struggling to understand its place in the world and to find a sense of belonging.
The creature then runs away and attempts to destroy Victor’s life. Victor spends the rest of his life chasing after the monster in an attempt to end him. He loses many of his loved ones along the way and ultimately has nothing to live for. While he begins the novel as a mad scientist, he emerges as a hero. Many would not consider him a hero since he was the one to make the bad decision to create a monster in the first place.
Unknowing to the full capabilities of the creature, Victor lives in suspense of what the monster's previous actions were and what he might do next. The two years since constructing the monster had passed quickly and while Victor was able to somewhat move on with his life, the creature had spent that time plotting his revenge on the one who abandoned him. Victor’s remiss ways not only caused an immense drift in the monster and his relationship, but also the nature of the creature as he expressed no clemency. While the weather holds great meaning to the situation Victor portrays, “But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair.” (pg.80) Victor was not focused on anything
Victor becomes madden and sick from seeing how his creation looks. As the book goes on the reader can see Victor becoming inhuman as the monster is becoming human. There are a lot of consequences that Victor has to face not only with himself but also his family and the monster. Victors has an internal conflict with himself, he blames himself for creating a creator that kills his family and friend (Oates 3). When Victor's first family member,William. is killed by strangulation Victor automatically thinks the monster kills him and in truth the monster does kill William.
Victor ran from the monster never to look back but little did he know the monster had thoughts and feelings of his own. The monster “grew up” on his own and felt abandoned by his creator. He was in misery and felt worthless like no one or no human would ever love him because of the way he looked. " Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?”
Through experimentation, Victor attempts to control the natural world but ultimately fails. The creature, Victor’s unintentional creation, serves as a reminder that nature is impervious to human influence (Shelley, 35). The creature suffers in the end due to uncontrollable events, even though it is not dependent on Victor for survival. Victor’s interference with nature caused the creature to be rejected as a reminder of man’s powerlessness in the face of nature in both the natural and human
However, when one analyzes the text through an ecocritical lens, it is clear that he is not an amazing intellectual, but rather a selfish person who cares only about his own gain rather than what is good for the entirety of the natural world. To begin, Victor desires to uncover “the secrets of nature”-even though they may not be his to discover. By setting out on the task to discover Earth’s mysteries, he depicts his belief that he is in control and has the right to find out what it is hiding. While his curiosity may be justifiable, his methods are not. He does not simply want to uncover the secrets, but rather to “penetrate” them.