The Drive For Power In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Since the beginning of time, all living creatures have strived to hold the most power in their environment. The tyrannosaurus rex dominated the prehistoric era with its size and strength and the lion controls the jungle with its strength, speed, and hunting ability. Humans control everything that surrounds them and always strive to conquer more. This drive for power and control lead to many great empires as well as the fall of those empires, Rome is a prominent example of how too much power could lead to its demise. People holding a lot of power tend to always want more, they never find the satisfaction that they desire. Victor Frankenstein attempts to find more power in the world of science by creating the Creature and ends up losing all of the power that he once held and hoped of ever achieving. Victor Frankenstein strove to go above and beyond in his studies and always achieved in doing so. Victor constantly studied and attempted to learn more and more each day. At …show more content…
The Creature then tells Victor that he desires a mate to live with him and demands that Victor create the Creature’s female counterpart. The Creature displays his power over Victor by demanding a mate so Victor reluctantly agrees to create his mate. Victor feels as powerless as he has ever felt and yearns for his power back and knows that the only way he can achieve his power again is if he kills the Creature. After coming to this realization, Victor destroys the remnants of the Creature’s mate in order to start repossessing the power that dominated his life. Seeing the death of his possible mate, the Creature is blinded with rage and sets out for even more revenge on Victor. On the night of Victor’s wedding, the Creature kills Victor’s fiancee, Elizabeth, to make Victor feel as lonely as the Creature. With anger and depression filling his heart, Victor set out to kill the Creature once and for