The Life of Victor Frankenstein

After Victor created this monster, he quickly abandoned it, leaving it to fend for itself and help kickstart the monster’s hatred for mankind. This monster would soon direct all of his anger and revenge on Victor by making him feel as alone and miserable as it was. “Again I vowed

In 1818 Mary Shelley wrote a horrific novel titled Frankenstein. It was such a hit back then, that it is still people still republish and make shows and movies from the book. Frankenstein, is about a young man, Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with science and trying to find the secret to life. While he is away at college, he thinks he has found it and begins putting a person together using various body parts. As soon as the person has life, Victor realizes his creation is a monster and immediately regrets the monster he has brought to life. He goes several years with hearing nothing from the monster and then finds it killed his youngest brother. On his return home, he decides he will track the monster down. It does not go so well though.

	Near the end of the novel, the Monster requests from Victor to create for him, a female counterpart. When the Monster says, "You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I do demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede"(140). The Monsters longing for a person he can communicate with is very important. It

After his mother's death, unable to fully cope, he threw himself into his studies, which he consumed himself in (HOGG). Where he found a morbid interest in creating life from scratch, creating his monster. Frankenstein, while enveloping himself in his studies, forgets his family, and ignores their attempts at communication. The grief of his mother’s sudden death makes him find solace in creating life (HOGG). The creation of his monster scares himself and realizes he’s gone too far, “Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and August filled my heart” (Shelley 47).

Rather than just killing Victor, however, the monster decides to kill his loved ones. The death of a potential companion in the world incites the monster to create even more death.

Victor, after being convinced to create a female companion for the monster, realizes that this will only create double the amount of destruction, he then makes the choice to discontinue his project to prevent more devastation. Instead of less damage resulting from this choice it only brings more harm to his life and everyone around him. First, his good friend Henry Clerval is murdered by the beast and Victor is accused of this murder, “The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.” (Shelley 129). This was Victor’s reaction upon seeing Henry’s corpse and demonstrates how deeply his pursuit for knowledge affects him. Even though he is later released on circumstantial evidence, he will be scarred for life knowing that he responsible for yet another death. Given that Victor destroyed the monster’s only hope of having someone else like him in the world; the monster swears revenge and that he will return on Victor’s wedding night. Victor misinterpreted this warning and instead of the monster attacking Victor, his creation attacked and

Frankenstein chooses to be isolated from society and his family on his own. He travels away from home for his desire to obtain more knowledge about natural philosophy. He fancied about creating

Inside the Bible, it can be found that a mate is generally not decided by the parents of their child, but rather the child. The child uses wisdom, commonsense, and God’s leading. In this case, the “parent” of the monster is Victor. Because Victor would be creating a mate in his own image, it would strongly go against scripture and Christian beliefs. The monster would then have two choices; leave romance behind or seek a human mate.

Sometime after Justine’s execution is the next time that Victor encounters the Monster and now it has learned how to speak and function with no help from his creator. During this encounter the monster demands a mate and reluctantly Victor obliges. He then isolates himself as he did before and begins construction on this female monster but, Victor’s destructive impulses and sudden realization of what could transpire with these two abominations, sets the stage for the final blows that the monster will unleash on Victor’s loved ones.

On the night of his marriage to Elizabeth, his forever love, the Monster murders her,showing that if he can't have a love, then neither will Victor. He also kills victors best friend Henry. Victor is left all alone, and has so many people close to his heart die.

Even after being rejected, the monster gave Victor another chance. The monster asked him to create a partner for it. But Victor denied the monster’s request. He thought that if he creates another monster, both of them together would only increase his problems. He wondered “Perhaps the two monsters would hate each other… and would kill. And murder, and destroy… without end.” (Page 37) So he cut the body of the female monster he made. This made the monster furious and more violent. The monster killed every person Victor loved and also became the reason for his death at the end. Here, the killings symbolizes the hatred of the

This is when Frankenstein decides to do the right thing and not create a female monster for his creation to be with. When Victor is faced with a question on the subject, he thinks about his morals and says that the monster, “may render him the most miserable of men, but (the monster) shall never make base of him in his own eyes.” (129) This shows that Victor might actually have some heart after all, at least for himself, if not the ones he cares about. He believes that if he were to, “create another like (the monster), their joint wickedness may desolate the world.” (129) Ceding to the monster’s demands would be unethical because of two reasons: another monster to wreak havoc upon the world, and the potential for “monster babies”, which is to be feared for obvious reasons. Therefore, Victor is correct in refusing to grant the monster’s demands.

If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” The monster makes his offer to Victor that if he will create a mate, the Monster will disappear and never rejoin civilization. When Victor chooses not to follow through with his promise to make the mate the Monster has revenge on him by killing his newlywed wife and his father. Victor and the Monster are both consumed for the desire for revenge dying before each can achieve their

In the early stages of the monster’s life, he becomes lonely and tries to interact with human society. The monster learns that he is not accepted in the human world. This event later causes the monster to seek revenge on his creator Victor and force him to create the monster a companion. Victor later refuses to create the monster a companion, out of fear of having two monsters roaming the earth. As a result, the monster lashes out and swears that he will be at Victor’s wedding and that Victor will regret