The Role Of Suffering In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In the novel Frankenstein, the author Mary Shelley shows the everlasting power of nature by limiting the knowledge man can learn about it. Throughout the book there are many times when Victor yearns for nature in order to heal him from the misery and violence in his life. This misery and violence are caused by his determination to learn more about the natural world. The monster Victor creates, due to his loneliness, defies the unwritten rules of nature and exemplifies the supernatural aspect of the novel. Victor’s mood completely shifts when he is around nature and he instantly feels calmer when near it.

He can’t help but thinking about the image “I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval Stretched out before me(167). Not only is horror used but also violence. Violence is seen when Victor learns about the tragic death of his young brother. He is upset about the fact he was murdered in such a cruel way “To die so miserably, to feel the murders grasp”(60). The moments of supernatural and mystery are also seen in this novel and have a huge impact

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” Fear only holds back those who have things to lose. So what about a man who loses everything at his own hands, what does he fear? It was a million dreams for the world he was going to make. However, Victor Frankenstein becomes the key to the making of a murderer, and his dreams were shattered.

Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s novel, “Frankenstein” highlights an interesting fictional scenario where Victor Frankenstein, the supposed doomed protagonist of the story creates an intelligent, but grotesque monster after studying in Ingolstadt and discovering the secret to life. After Victor resurrects the creature from the dead, which is made up of old fashioned body parts, he abandons it. The reason for this is because of the creatures’ monstrosity of an appearance; Frankenstein’s own creation horrifies him when he looks at it. After being disregarded by his so called “father” the Creature is left to face the world with no understanding of it or of himself.

When Victor creates the monster this creates imagery in your head since there have been so many different pictures and movies showing how frankenstein the monster was created. This imagery helps the visualize a gothic scene. Victor going into cemeteries using dead body parts for the creatures creation is supernatural and weird. Victor puts a gothic theme into the book himself as a character that uses other humans body parts for experiments and grave robbing dead corpses. Doing supernatural and unnatural things fit into the gothic theme and a huge example of this would be Victor actually bringing the monster to life raising it to an even more mysterious piece.

Her life was so terrible you can see why she made Frankenstein such a gothic novel. In frankenstein, Mary Shelley is obsessed with the idea of creating life from the dead .Electricity is the source of life for the monster known as frankenstein whose has body parts of a man who is dead .Mary Shelley’s fascination with the discovery of galvanism become clear to see in Victor Frankenstein’s obsession with creating life from bodies that were pronounced dead making him “God” like. In the novel there is a quote which this information is proven, “I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless

Frankenstein was feeling lost towards the end of the book until Victor finally got his wish and died. Victor Frankenstein was the main character in Frankenstein. He was important because he was the one who made the story a story because he created a creature and the creature did things to put points in the story. Frankenstein was feeling lost and depressed after his mother died and then eventually his

Shelley addresses this question with the character Victor Frankenstein. One of the first things Victor is at fault for is his creation of Frankenstein in the first place. The monster would constantly cry, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god” (Aristotle). Romantic period writer and author, Mary Shelley, depicts two characters in her soft science fiction novel, Frankenstein, that is exquisitely similar to those who “would find delight in solitude” as quoted by Aristotle in his Politics. In Shelley’s Frankenstein, the parallel of Aristotle’s two presented personas consists as Victor Frankenstein as a god and his horrific creation, the Monster, as a wild beast. Unambiguously, Victor is indeed the god of the Monster because he created him, consequently bringing the Monster into existence. The Monster too is merely a wild beast from the perception that he appears to be a frightening and violent creature.

An eye for an eye or the law of retaliation is the principle most people live their lives by. For the characters in Frankenstein, this concept is apparent as the main character, Victor, creates a monster and instantly abandons him which sets off the chain of events revolving around revenge. However, as Gandhi once stated, “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” (Gandhi). Throughout the novel, the creature and Victor engage in a recurring cycle of vengeance, but these acts of revenge are bittersweet as in the end it destroys both of them. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley reveals how revenge consumes and destroys those who surrender to it.

The creation feels as though Mr. Frankenstein did not fulfill his duties

In many novels throughout literature, enemies often share striking similarities. They push and pull at each other to the point where they lead to the each others undoing, yet they share tremendous likeness. In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly Victor Frankenstein and his creature are two sides of one person. Both despise each other, and in doing so they are despising themselves. There is a power struggle between the two adversaries, which leads to both Frankenstein, and his creature ending up alone.

I read a book, Frankenstein. I see the growth of a monster to be a human. A monster is made by Victor Frankenstein. Victor used many parts of other bodies to create a human, but he made a mistake. That body is a monster.

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” Aristotle wrote his over thousands of years ,but when I read this quote I think of Victor Frankenstein. The three themes that describe the character Victor Frankenstein in the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is the pursuit of knowledge, Isolation ,and guilt and regret. These three themes capture the main character of the novel Victor Frankenstein. Victor was a man that pursuited knowledge ,but came consumed causing him to become isolated because of this made a mistake giving victor great guilt and regret.

Frankenstein: Who is at fault? Frankenstein is a book about love, loss, and the affect it can have. A series of cause and affect events happen throughout this book involving Victor and his creation. The question to be answered is who is to blame for the tragedies. Although both characters have wrong-doings, Victor is more to blame for the outcome of the story.