Dr. Victor Frankenstein is one of the many character’s where we see a constant battle with not only his creation, but with himself. Victor is a man of extreme emotion and inquiry. In this letter, I tried to imitate the Doctor’s outrageous forms of emotional and psychological warfare. His combined feelings of powerlessness, guilt, as well as anger are depicted in this letter as a way to show Frankenstein’s personality, mental state, as well as his feelings about the events that had passed.
By using expressive words such as despair and turmoil, Frankenstein’s emotional state was captured after the creation of his monster. In the novel we see that Frankenstein is burdened with the thought of the creature’s monstrous outbursts. Feeling guilty and somewhat terrified of the thought, Frankenstein tries to hide this feeling by saying in the letter that the monster mirrors his “darkest secrets”. For a brief moment Frankenstein felt guilty for the death of his brother William shown in the following quote. “But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in secrets of evil and despair” (Shelley 99). He …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel Frankenstein viewed himself in very high regard as a scientist and creator. I wanted to capture his feeling of powerlessness after the creation of the monster like he did in the novel. As Frankenstein says in the novel, his creation made him feel “Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment” (Shelley 85). Like this quote, I imitated his feelings about hiss creation by using the word “despair”. This word to describe the monster because his great despair was through the disappointment he found in his creation. The power the monster had over his creator caused him to feel powerless and lower his sense of authority as this “great creator”. This changed his plans of being held to the standard of a god-like creator, thus making him feel
By using expressive words such as despair and turmoil, Frankenstein’s emotional state was captured after the creation of his monster. In the novel we see that Frankenstein is burdened with the thought of the creature’s monstrous outbursts. Feeling guilty and somewhat terrified of the thought, Frankenstein tries to hide this feeling by saying in the letter that the monster mirrors his “darkest secrets”. For a brief moment Frankenstein felt guilty for the death of his brother William shown in the following quote. “But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in secrets of evil and despair” (Shelley 99). He …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel Frankenstein viewed himself in very high regard as a scientist and creator. I wanted to capture his feeling of powerlessness after the creation of the monster like he did in the novel. As Frankenstein says in the novel, his creation made him feel “Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment” (Shelley 85). Like this quote, I imitated his feelings about hiss creation by using the word “despair”. This word to describe the monster because his great despair was through the disappointment he found in his creation. The power the monster had over his creator caused him to feel powerless and lower his sense of authority as this “great creator”. This changed his plans of being held to the standard of a god-like creator, thus making him feel