Frankenstein Journey

Life is full of journeys, both physical and emotional. A character’s physical journey is often used by many authors to play a central role in their novel. The process of a physical journey is often associated with expanding knowledge, such as mental growth. The concept of a journey can be used metaphorically as a direct link to a character’s inner search to find his own identity or a search to find a new identity; it provides an opportunity for a character to see himself from a different perspective, rather than his own. Some characters remain stagnant and others become dynamic. A physical journey highlights the amount of emotional change a character goes through as the novel progresses, enabling the reader to determine whether a character …show more content…
In the beginning of his life, he travels to many different villages throughout Italy with his mother and father for the first five years of his life. Years later, a few weeks after his mother’s death, Frankenstein leaves his home in Geneva to attend the university in Ingolstadt. After the tragic murder of his brother, William, he sets off to travel Europe for two years with his best friend, Clerval. After his creation murders all of his loved ones, Frankenstein develops an obsessive thirst for revenge against his fiend and will go anywhere to quench that thirst. Through his physical journeys one can better see the change of his emotional state. For Frankenstein, traveling started out as fun and exciting wanderings. He would even spend a day in one place just so that way he can take in all the beauty there and deeply appreciate …show more content…
What one does wherever he goes defines who he is. Frankenstein and the monster travel to multiple places that add up to define who they are. Sometimes a journey does not result in uplifting knowledge about one’s character but rather disillusion or even death. Through his journeys, one finds that Frankenstein is a courageous and a somewhat noble man that also has a monstrous side to him. He is willing to stand up to the monster, that is in fact a lot bigger and stronger than he is, and suffer great perils in order to save mankind from having to suffer greatly for his own actions. Although Frankenstein is courageous and noble he is a monster himself. He starts to create a female companion for his fiend and realizes how monstrous his actions truly were the first time he created life and is no longer able to complete his work. He did not notice how wretched his work truly is the first time around because a veil of pride and courage masked the fact that he is taking body parts and stitching them