Difference in experience will drastically change one’s viewpoint in life, as well as in afterlife. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein gives sentient life to a creature, and then abandons the Creation to act by its own rationale, which often appears irrational to other characters, and to the reader. The irrationality of the Creation is accentuated by the fact that no human has ever experienced the loneliness that accompanies being the only of one’s species. The similarities and parallels between Victor and the Creation draw closer the distant relationship between the two, and make the experiences of the two more relatable to the reader. Victor and the Creation similarly commit actions under emotional influence, which they
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Some of Victor’s first word so Walton are “I agree with you … in believing that friendship is not only a desirable, but a possible acquisition. I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair. But I have lost everything, and cannot begin life anew” (17). Having lost everyone he loves, Victor is a broken man. With this comes horrible loneliness, which defines his character, and his actions in the novel. While imploring Victor to build him a female creature, the Creation exclaims, “Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!” (Citation needed). The creature feels a similar loneliness to Victor’s, and with that comes desperation to assuage it. This feeling is what finally connects the two over the boundaries which they face, which ultimately, is what convinces Victor to comply with the Creation’s wishes. Isolation is above all the trait which both Victor and the Creation feel strongly, and in this regard, it is the main force drawing the two
Some of Victor’s first word so Walton are “I agree with you … in believing that friendship is not only a desirable, but a possible acquisition. I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair. But I have lost everything, and cannot begin life anew” (17). Having lost everyone he loves, Victor is a broken man. With this comes horrible loneliness, which defines his character, and his actions in the novel. While imploring Victor to build him a female creature, the Creation exclaims, “Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!” (Citation needed). The creature feels a similar loneliness to Victor’s, and with that comes desperation to assuage it. This feeling is what finally connects the two over the boundaries which they face, which ultimately, is what convinces Victor to comply with the Creation’s wishes. Isolation is above all the trait which both Victor and the Creation feel strongly, and in this regard, it is the main force drawing the two