Motivation In Frankenstein

Have you ever heard the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover?” If not one would answer, “Always read a book cover to cover before you make judgments.” Frankenstein is one such book. While Frankenstein is a book about a monster terrifying a city it is also about compassion, love and friendship. After reading the book you would discover Frankenstein, the monster, is a loving creature with feelings and wants to become a part of society.

He is in constant refusal of responsibility, and ends up essentially plaguing not only his life, but also the lives around him. After constructing and animating the creature, he’s in a flux never ending negative emotions. The creation gets turned into a monster both physically and mentally. Frankenstein describes the horrors that come along with scientific experimentation, and the pursuit of science unavoidably leading to tragedy. The novel presents insights that are just as valid today as when the novel was written in the 19th century. Dr. Frankenstein makes a scientific breakthrough in his creation of the monster, but at what cost? This novel shows us the dangers of attempting to find something we are simply unprepared to manage. Victor’s urges to truly learn the secret of making life completely blinds him to the consequences of achieving such a feat. This book also shows that our ethical (or unethical) actions have the potential to hurt not only ourselves, but also others around us.

The author Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein to portray monstrosity, which is not only shown threw the monster that Frankenstein creates himself, but is also shown threw Victor Frankenstein and his actions. Monstrosity is someone’s looks, appearance and actions that display the horrendous side of humanity; the real monster Frankenstein f aces threw out the book is just a mirror-like reflection of himself that is represented in his own creation. When Frankenstein takes a look at his final creation, he then comes to a realization of the monstrosity he has now bought upon into the world, he who only wanted to create a being that could be helpful and another kind of superior race only created a hideous monster with his own two hands.

Finally I 'd like to say that personally I, as a reader, got disappointed at Frankenstein, specially because after reading his childhood, his early desires for knowledge, and the people that loved him, there is no reason for what he did, and I 'm not talking just about the monster. He totally forgets all that was inculcated to him He had great examples of mother and father, he had wonderful friends, but that didn 't keep him from being ironic in his actions and not being righteous as he was supposed to be. Victor Frankenstein is now more evil than his own creation.

One main thing to consider is the Creature’s perspective and his development as a character. His experience with humans are unhappy and many judge the Creature solely on his appearance. As Victor Frankenstein abandons his creation, readers see the eventual evolution of the Creature and his spiral to a

Victor Frankenstein was obsessed with science and anatomy, and the balance between life and death while he was a university student. Frankenstein claimed to create the monster to better mankind, but it is more likely he created him out of the desire to become more like a God. “. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me; I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. (Shelley 54)” This is basically Victor explaining how he wants to cheat death and create a new race of species. Victor wants the creature to look at him as a God figure or as his ruler. The irony is that Victor never gives the creature a chance and that is the reason the monster did all the

I’d like to think that when i graduate i’d be more excited rather than sad to leave, but truth be told i’m more sad to do so. All your life you have been told where to sit, where to go and how to do it. Everyone has been holding my hand this whole time and now i’m choosing my class schedule for college, something that was made for me my whole life. Throughout senior year i have learned valuable life lessons which will help me, throughout college and life in general. Would you believe me if i told you most of those lessons were learned right here in Mrs.Hilers senior english class?

Prudence; the ability to govern judgement and exercise wisdom to remain cautious of a situation or feeling. It can be the factor through which a desire may become an prosperous aspiration or a destructive lust. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein follows the life of Victor Frankenstein, an imprudent man who is consumed by his ambition to reanimate a dead body. Correspondingly, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a meritorious doctor, Henry Jekyll, is blinded by his iniquitous ambition and creates a potion that physically and mentally dichotomizes the two sides of his personality. In both texts, the use of conflict, setting and theme suggests that the pursuit of excessive ambition blindly leads to the neglection of

What happens when your own ambition takes control of you and blinds you from your morality? This question was posed by Mary Shelley in her most popular novel Frankenstein, written in 1816. Set in western Europe in the 1700s, the story follows an intellectual young man named Victor as he creates a living creature made out of the body parts of multiple corpses. Once the creature comes to life, Victor is disgusted by it and runs away, leaving it to fend for itself. In the story, Shelley shows how important it is to not become too ambitious because it will only lead to your downfall.

There are different forms of literature which can include essays, poems, novels, reports and more. The one thing all forms of literature have in common is that they all have meaning, purpose and form, but how it is expressed is all different, the question is how. Most of the times authors have a reason to convey such messages, and how the messages are delivered is up to the author as well. The author uses the form, it’s aesthetics to send the readers an image; what kind of literature it is. The authors also send the readers a blatant message, the message is sent through the text of the literature. Through the text on the literature the author portrays purpose, and with the form of the

     There are many different themes expressed in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. They vary with each reader but basically never change. These themes deal with the education that each character posses, the relationships formed or not formed in the novel, and the responsibility for ones own actions. This novel even with the age still has ideas that can be reasoned with even today.

The idea of pursuing knowledge clouded Victor’s mind and when his creature is born he is shocked to discover that what he has created is far off his own expectations. Not only did the monster destroy his expectations of developing a creature that went beyond human knowledge, but it also affected his life, dignity, and fears. Victor himself admits to his own mistake when he says, “The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature...but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless honor and disgust filled my heart ” (36). Victor Frankenstein realizes what his obsession with pursuing an extensive amount of knowledge has brought him. His destiny to achieve the impossible with no regard for anyone or anything but himself shows that he is blinded by knowledge when creating the monster and is incapable to foresee the outcome of his creation. Victor’s goal was meant to improve and help humanity, but instead it leads to

Alhough Victor Frankenstein calls his creature a monster, and considers it disgusting and abhorrent, it is in fact Frankenstein who behaves monstrously. He claims to have created the creature for a noble purpose: to defeat death. However, it is clear that his motives

Victor’s driving, obsessive ambition ruined his life and led to his own death and the murder of his loved ones. Illustrate how ambition affects not only Victor and Robert Walton, but also the creature in Frankenstein.

Frankenstein was a scientist who thought that the world was a secret, which he desired to discover in the scientific field. He worked to find out the relationship between humans and animals. He was attracted by the structure of the human body, any animal related with life, and the cause of life. One day, Victor Frankenstein made an experiment where he included many different human parts from different dead people. This resulted in a human being and a strange creature never seen before in life, which made Frankenstein very scared. This creature or monster was tall enough to scare people by his height and with muscles that were well proportioned.