Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is a classic horror novel about Victor Frankenstein, a man who becomes all-consumed with the idea of creating life. The story begins when young Victor attends college and learns how to reanimate the dead. When victor learns this, he decides to try and bring something to life. Victor becomes obsessed with his new breakthrough experiment and locks himself away in his lab. Victor spends his days and nights collecting parts for his creation. He conducts and succeeds with an experiment to create a living being, but after, he is horrified by the ugly truth. He created what he and the rest of the world see as a terrifying monster. Horrified, Victor abandons his creation from “birth” and completely shuns him from his life.
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At first he is an innocent being who hardly understands fire, but overtime he learns the cruel fact of life: he is different and will never be socially accepted by anyone. Eventually, what once was an innocent gentle being, turns into a guilty murderous monster because of the hate he endures. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, she frequently uses the actions of Victor Frankenstein’s creature to demonstrate the themes of innocence and the contrasting themes of guilt.
When the creature is first abandoned by Victor, he knows nothing of the world and hardly knows how to find food. He first learns how fire is meant to keep him warm and that he could find food in nuts and berries. After his fire dies, the creature has no clue how to reignite it. He then ventures for the warmth from a hut in a village. Without stepping two feet in the hut, he already causes a commotion among everyone. The creature describes his horrifying experience with the people with “some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country” (Shelley 90).
At first he is an innocent being who hardly understands fire, but overtime he learns the cruel fact of life: he is different and will never be socially accepted by anyone. Eventually, what once was an innocent gentle being, turns into a guilty murderous monster because of the hate he endures. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, she frequently uses the actions of Victor Frankenstein’s creature to demonstrate the themes of innocence and the contrasting themes of guilt.
When the creature is first abandoned by Victor, he knows nothing of the world and hardly knows how to find food. He first learns how fire is meant to keep him warm and that he could find food in nuts and berries. After his fire dies, the creature has no clue how to reignite it. He then ventures for the warmth from a hut in a village. Without stepping two feet in the hut, he already causes a commotion among everyone. The creature describes his horrifying experience with the people with “some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country” (Shelley 90).