Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus once declared, “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.” Those who live by Camus’s transcendentalist views of enjoying the journey rather than the glorification of the end result will lead to a joyous way of living. Within Mary Shelley’s renowned novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, a representation of the madness that evolves around the desire to succeed in doing the impossible, is mangled by the hardships that come with completing the unimaginable task of creating a chimera. Although written in 1818, Shelley’s message of enjoying the pursuit over the ending product is still relevant today. Society continues to falsely idolizes those for their achievements
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The Creature communicates to Walton, after Victor’s death, that he was saddened by what his life had suppressed to be after Victor spent two years creating him. Through the quest to make Victor miserable, the Creature has changed from the innocent creature he once was into a malicious being. Concluding his disheartening monologue he cries out, “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless” (197). The Creature knows that he has taken innocent lives to torture the one who deemed him unworthy of love. Through this moment of him pursuing his goal, the Creature is neither satisfied by the ending result or the events that take place along the way. However, the Creature confesses to Walton that immediately after feeling gloomy for murdering Henry he thought about how this man had caused him immense amounts of anguish and deserved this ominous future. He proclaims, “Nay, then I was not miserable. I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair. Evil thenceforth became my good” (195). The Creature was able to quickly recover and his excitement returns as he gets back to the task at hand. Motivated by the hateful things Victor has done to him, the Creature is satisfied with each murder he commits as he understands the pain it will cause
The Creature communicates to Walton, after Victor’s death, that he was saddened by what his life had suppressed to be after Victor spent two years creating him. Through the quest to make Victor miserable, the Creature has changed from the innocent creature he once was into a malicious being. Concluding his disheartening monologue he cries out, “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless” (197). The Creature knows that he has taken innocent lives to torture the one who deemed him unworthy of love. Through this moment of him pursuing his goal, the Creature is neither satisfied by the ending result or the events that take place along the way. However, the Creature confesses to Walton that immediately after feeling gloomy for murdering Henry he thought about how this man had caused him immense amounts of anguish and deserved this ominous future. He proclaims, “Nay, then I was not miserable. I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair. Evil thenceforth became my good” (195). The Creature was able to quickly recover and his excitement returns as he gets back to the task at hand. Motivated by the hateful things Victor has done to him, the Creature is satisfied with each murder he commits as he understands the pain it will cause