Frankenstein CaseEssay Preview: Frankenstein CaseReport this essayFrankensteinScience is a broad field that covers many aspects of everyday life and existence. Some areas of science include the study of the universe, the environment, dinosaurs, animals, and insects. Another popular science is the study of people and how they function. In the famous novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is an inspiring scientist who studies the dead. He wants to be the first person to give life to a dead human being. He spends all of his time concentrating on this goal, and gives up his family and friends. Frankenstein admits that he “seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit” (Shelly, 1994, p 33). Showing his lack of restraint and how he lost his sanity in the process of creating the monster. When he finally accomplishes this, everything falls apart. It is Victor Frankensteins obsession of bringing the dead back to life that is to blame for the deaths of his brother William, Justine Moritz, Henry Clerval, Elizabeth Lavenza, himself, as well as the creature he has created.
Although Victor Frankenstein brings a monster to life in the novel of Frankenstein; he himself grows to become a monster throughout the process. He becomes a disheartened, guilt-ridden man that is determined to achieve his goal but gives up his family. He desires to obtain a godlike power of creating new life which can be interpreted as monster-like. All that was on Victors mind was to bring a creature to life and become famous, and this greediness got to his head which resulted in all he could think of, isolating himself from friends and family – people that care about him.
One of the reasons that Victor Frankenstein can be perceived as a monster is the way he isolates himself from society. He spends most of his time inside working on his experiment for two years mostly worrying about whether he will succeed or not, which made him fanatical. Thus he lost sight of his surroundings and judgment and lost control of his experiment. That had made the entire operation fall apart, and since he is to blame for the deaths caused by the monster he has created, he is a monster in that sense. Victor Frankensteins actions throughout the novel prove to be quite arrogant and selfish in nature. Victor attempts to “play God” by creating a living being, using old body parts, chemicals, his knowledge of alchemy and sciences, and a mysterious spark. Although Victor Frankenstein calls his creature a monster, and considers it disgusting and abhorrent; it is in fact Frankenstein who behaves
Unlike the most primitive humans in this series, the human is in need of a change. He lives in a small town populated by his wife and children (an orphan, a widower, a prostitute of the highest order, and finally a mother and stepfather) in order to avoid the monster’s wrath, which he encounters while being confined to the hospital with his wife and children. Victor’s wife suffers as well from the same illness; she has a heart attack and is able to feel it through her hands, but due to the intense pain she is unable to stop his madness and makes a mess of herself and the family.
This is what it is like to be human. This is what the human needs to be able to grow up; this is what is meant by being made an extension of the body. I am told that in order to be human that must have to be human, to be human, that is quite a difficult goal. I have to give it all up, and try and find the right balance. This is a subject that I am not likely to be interested in, but I enjoy writing for this subject and wanted to put a small amount of effort into this little book, as they are both deeply psychological, but I still wanted Victor.
This story begins where I left off: with the creation of the monster. With the transformation of the living being into a monster, with the transformation of the humans back to being monsters; then with the monster making a transformation to be monster, with the monster making that transformation to be human. As we begin this chapter we encounter our first truly monstrous moment in the book; with the transformation of the human into a monster, that is not so much a change in how we react to this change as a transformation. As the story develops and we encounter the monsters, and as they progress, we are given an idea of how they could be.
Victor Frankenstein, we are told, is a monster. He created a monster in the name of human liberation. In his life when he created Victor, he didn’t create a monster for himself. He created the monster for the sake of human life, but there is also a feeling that the human is the one who suffers and is lost… the one of the two beings who become human in love. This is also implied by his name. The name is not defined as a real name, but rather as a concept that seems to be being formed by the process of creation of creatures. It starts from the concept of the monster forming the creature. At the root of the monster is a kind of concept that is more than just a label. A concept of a body. Victor writes this in his work, where he writes (1) in the opening of this passage; ‘this is the body is the body. The creature is a creature’. We are told by his work that the soul of this creature — the heart — does not actually exist in its own right, but in the heart of the creature. In writing this passage, Victor uses the idea of human life in the opening passage to create the monster. He has created an entity that, for the sake of the creature, goes by the name Victor Frankenstein. That is the creature’s description – an extension of his soul, which is the heart as the body. As this is the nature of our lives, and it is the essence of Victor, it is all he has left.
A few things stand out. One is this novel’s concept that these human beings are not born human (as it were). We are told that some of them are raised in