Hero or Villain
A Discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein “The different acts of life are not so changeable as the feelings of nature,” says the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley wrote this novel at the young age of eighteen when she was on a summer vacation and had a strange dream. The novel Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley is about a young doctor named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein learns how to create life and uses his power to produce a monster that has little to no human graces and seeks revenge on his creator. In Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is not a hero.
The first reason Frankenstein is not considered a hero in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is because he is a man consumed by ambition. Victor is very ambitious in …show more content…
Victor has shown that using science to play God can lead to objectionable consequences. Frankenstein brings the dead back to life using multiple parts of humans to create a new human being. “Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life.” Frankenstein says. He raises himself above mankind in the creation of a new human being which proves his likeliness of playing God.
The final reason as to why Dr. Frankenstein is not considered a hero in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is because he dodged his own fears that he created. In his first creation of the monster, Victor became so terror-stricken that he darted when he first saw the monster. Immediately after Frankenstein created the monster, he became ill, depressed, and fearful. When the monster asks for a mate and Frankenstein agrees to make a the monster a female human being. During the making, he realizes how much worse this creation could be and becoming petrified which lead to him destroying the
A Discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein “The different acts of life are not so changeable as the feelings of nature,” says the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley wrote this novel at the young age of eighteen when she was on a summer vacation and had a strange dream. The novel Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley is about a young doctor named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein learns how to create life and uses his power to produce a monster that has little to no human graces and seeks revenge on his creator. In Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein is not a hero.
The first reason Frankenstein is not considered a hero in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is because he is a man consumed by ambition. Victor is very ambitious in …show more content…
Victor has shown that using science to play God can lead to objectionable consequences. Frankenstein brings the dead back to life using multiple parts of humans to create a new human being. “Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life.” Frankenstein says. He raises himself above mankind in the creation of a new human being which proves his likeliness of playing God.
The final reason as to why Dr. Frankenstein is not considered a hero in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is because he dodged his own fears that he created. In his first creation of the monster, Victor became so terror-stricken that he darted when he first saw the monster. Immediately after Frankenstein created the monster, he became ill, depressed, and fearful. When the monster asks for a mate and Frankenstein agrees to make a the monster a female human being. During the making, he realizes how much worse this creation could be and becoming petrified which lead to him destroying the