Frankenstein is a gothic fiction novel that follows the creature, Victor Frankenstein, and the creation, the creature. Many different characters including the main protagonist and antagonist bring up. The author, Mary Shelley uses the absence or lack of parental instruction to reveal how childhood innocence can be dramatically changed and affect their future decisions o who they choose to be. Victor was part of a wealthy Swiss family who treated him as ““...an object of their love, not a participant in it; he is "their plaything and their idol.” Victor insists upon remembering "the best of all possible worlds" is the psychological defense of an only child (as he was for a long time) who maintains a love/hate relationship with his parents because
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The creature shows a monstrous side and burn the cottage down after the DeLacy’s abandon it. “In the figure of the monster we perceive the orphaned self, the deformed outcast, who aspires a normal relationship but forever must remain beyond the pale because through no fault of his own he is not acceptably human.” (Hall). The creature feels as if he is being discriminated by his look and not his actions. All he wants is a familial connection that his creator or father figure refused to give him but every time he gets rejected no matter how many good things he does. This is when the monster seeks out Frankenstein and meets his brother, William. Only to kill him because he finds that he is related to Frankenstein. At this point, the creature make a dramatic shift in character. He realizes that he has sunk into a point of no return when he killed William. “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph: clapping my hands, I exclaimed, ‘I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him’” (Shelly 131). The creature continues to kill many of his other loved ones such as: Elizabeth and Henry. This causes Frankenstein to turn to his no point of return which is
The creature shows a monstrous side and burn the cottage down after the DeLacy’s abandon it. “In the figure of the monster we perceive the orphaned self, the deformed outcast, who aspires a normal relationship but forever must remain beyond the pale because through no fault of his own he is not acceptably human.” (Hall). The creature feels as if he is being discriminated by his look and not his actions. All he wants is a familial connection that his creator or father figure refused to give him but every time he gets rejected no matter how many good things he does. This is when the monster seeks out Frankenstein and meets his brother, William. Only to kill him because he finds that he is related to Frankenstein. At this point, the creature make a dramatic shift in character. He realizes that he has sunk into a point of no return when he killed William. “I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph: clapping my hands, I exclaimed, ‘I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him’” (Shelly 131). The creature continues to kill many of his other loved ones such as: Elizabeth and Henry. This causes Frankenstein to turn to his no point of return which is