Frankenstein Written by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein Written by Mary Shelley
In the story “Frankenstein”, written by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein decided that he wanted to create a being out of people that were already dead. He believed that he could bring people back from the grave. Playing with nature in such a way would make him play the role of God. With Victor Frankenstein feeling that he had no true friends, the only relief he had of expressing his feeling was through letters to Elizabeth. Elizabeth was not Victor’s true sister but he loved her very dearly, making sure to always write her whenever he had the chance. Yet, when Victor left home something strange came over him. Already being interested in subjects such as natural philosophy and chemistry, he came upon the question of how to bring someone back to life. He became very involved in this project and worked on it for days on end.
The project had to do with defying the laws of nature. Victor believed wholeheartedly that he could bring the dead back to life. He felt that the dead were not ready to die and they were just resting. He felt by bringing people back to life he could not only better man kind, but also establish a name for him. Victor mentions to himself “They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places (27)”. With this type of attitude, he did not even take into consideration that he might make the world a worse place. Victor felt he was doing something good for the world, but we later find out just how bad this creation could be. After Victor found how to bring his creation to life, he also found out just how evil his invention could be.
Elizabeth wanted to pull Victor away from his project; but he was unwilling to leave until it was complete. Victor became so self absorbed into his project that he seemed to forget all that was important to him. He even disengaged himself from all the people he loved in his life. People like his father, Elizabeth, and other loved ones. Victor began to write less and less. Yet, it was not until Elizabeth got a discouraging letter from Victor did his love ones start to worry about him. Though the letter was full of words, it gave no relief to Elizabeth, because the words meant nothing to her. However, they meant a lot to Victor, because he felt the project in which he was working on was so important to him, in his own delirious world.
In a way the monster started out with a child like innocence that was eventually destroyed by being rejected by people time after time. His first encounter with humans was when he opened his yellow eyes for the first time and witnessed Victor Frankenstein, his creator, “rush out of the laboratory” (56). Reoccurring images of painful events originating from a first encounter could fill a person with hate and destruction. This aggression made Frankensteins creation violent. Upon their meeting each other, the monster confessed that when he found out that William was Victor’s brother he killed him. This killing proved to Victor that the monster did not know right from wrong or how to cope with his anger.
While talking with the monster, the monster demanded from Frankenstein to create a partner that he could be able to live with away from people. At first, agreeing to the demand, but later realized that if his first creation came out to be a killer so could the second one. But images of his creation gave