Frankenstein And Sorrows Of The Young Werther Character Analysis

Frankenstein and Sorrows of the Young Werther: Disastrous Desires In Frankenstein and Sorrows of the Young Werther, Victor and Werther’s misguided desires obstruct their views of reality, and thus their growth. Victor Frankenstein is an overzealous character who, unknowingly, risks his mental sanity to unearth the secrets of life and create a wretched creature. As Victor delves into the deeper mysteries of creation, his sanity begins to dwindle. During this time, Victor gradually skids into a state where reality becomes questionable, and he “[loses] all soul…for this one pursuit” (82). Victor distances himself from all of society and “summer months pass while [he] was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit” (83). Due to his obsession, he decides to seclude himself from society. His seclusion from the world is the initial step that Victor takes in the direction of insanity. He ostracizes himself from all human connections to pursue the “horrors of [his] secret toil” (82). His isolation leads to his mental breakdown because he ceases to participate in any form of human interaction for prolonged periods of time. He isolates himself from the only personification of realness in …show more content…
He tragically falls in love with a woman who only displays superficial feelings towards him. Werther’s loss of reality stems from his unchecked, passion-driven desires. He tries to coerce Lotte to reciprocate the same feelings to him but, to no avail, it only drives him to the point where he sacrifices his own ability to think rationally. Werther knows the impossibility of marrying Lotte and he says, "How clearly I saw the whole thing and my condition, yet dealt with it like a child…and note no sign of improvement" (57). He understands that he and Lotte will never be together but because he sees life through a Romanticized lens, he would rather let his heart steer his decisions than face