Abandonment And Revenge In Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, demonstrates many topics that can transform into a theme. Isolation, abandonment, and revenge are expressed within the story the Creature had told Victor. The main topic that stood out the most was keeping too many secrets, which in return lead Victor to his own destruction. He lost himself and his attachment to society after he kept the Creature a secret which lead the creature killing his family and friend due to spite Victor for abandoning him. The novel Frankenstein demonstrates the theme keeping many secrets leads to destruction when Victor’s inability to share his secret about the creature brings destruction of those he loves, the loss of his family and friends causes Victor to lose his attachment to …show more content…
As an illustration, in the text in chapter twenty-three, it reads, “I have but one resource, and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction,” (Shelley 23). At this point in the story, Victor will search for the creature until the day he dies. From this we can infer that Victor is serious about devoting his life to find and destroy the creature for what he did to his family. To illustrate this theme, the author states, “For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever,” (Shelley 24). In this quotes, Mary Shelley refers that Victor will maintain his health in order to get revenge on the creature. The author refers that the evidence shows importance because in the end Victor dies due to being unhealthy, but it shows how much determination Victor has on killing the creature. To demonstrate the theme, it states, “I had determined, if you were going southwards, still to trust myself to the mercy of the seas rather than abandon my purpose,” (Shelley 24). Basically Mary Shelley is saying that he hoped that Walton was travelling North so he could find the creature. I interpret this to mean that Victor planned on catching him before he met with Walton and his crew but did not due to the creature kept leaving and victor did …show more content…
Victor loses his sense of attachment after he witnessed or heard about the deaths of Elizabeth, William, and Henry. He plans to save himself after he promises to track the creature down and kill him, but instead died before he could catch him. He felt responsible for the deaths of William, Elizabeth, and Henry because he created the creature and it lead to the creature creating destruction in his family. Victor felt the isolation and revenge after the creature had killed his family and friend which, in return, lead to Victor wanting to get back at him for what he had done. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley displays many themes that derived from topics within the story. Secrecy is only just one of them, but the topics range from revenge to family and all the way to isolation and