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Theme Of Betrayal In Frankenstein

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In most novels, the main topic of the story revolves around a certain theme. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” has multiple themes which are reintroduced many times throughout the story. It is seen how the creature reacts to the tragic events that take place in his life and it gives the reader a general idea of the purpose or lesson to be taken from the novel. Revenge is one of the recurring themes that gets developed in the novel when the creature feels betrayed by Victor. At the beginning of the book we see the creature as an innocent, clueless being. He is brought to earth with any type of human interaction and is unaware that his only creator abandoned him. These immediate events come to play unknowingly, but it was until a matter of time the …show more content…

So many traumatic events had taken place due to his horrid looks, these events made the creature hate humans in general. The creature later on would find Victor and demand for a companion since he has never felt affection from anyone or thing. This is where I believe the theme of revenge begins to be the most important theme of the novel. The creature has put all his trust and reliability into Victor and gets betrayed on top of all the trauma he has already been through. Later on in the novel, we see how the creature gets betrayed in the remote islands. The betrayal leads to most of the deaths, even the creature’s. This was the creature’s revenge, he essentially made a promise to Victor that he would kill him and his family after he failed to comply with his demands. This all could have been prevented if Victor would have just acknowledged the creature after creating him, but his rejection led the creature to think he is hated by everyone. After the double betrayal, revenge was fundamentally inevitable. Revenge drew in a lot of deaths and overall terror. The author expressed this theme successfully, by it being the reason Victor

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