Role Of Revenge In Frankenstein

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Isolation. Revenge. What do these words mean? When one thinks of the word ¨Frankenstein¨ before they read the book, they think of the monster and or the creature. But Frankenstein is actually named Victor, and he is the creator of the monster. Victor was a man who became very isolated, and did not associate with anyone for a long period of time. Thus making him get an insane idea to copy the idea of life. When he tested with life he, in my opinion, was turning himself into a monster. Looks are just deceiving, what is inside is the brute. Even though you might look like a monster on the outside, you might not be one on the inside. It could be the complete opposite. Who is the real monster? When the ¨creature¨ is created, Victor keeps it a secret from his family. …show more content…
When Justine is proven guilty, but the true murder is the creature. Since this happens, Victor knows it was the monster from the beginning, even before the creature tells him. It is like the whole idea of kiss and don’t tell. Even after the death of two of his family members, one of murder and one of execution, he still keeps the whole thing a secret. When Victor finds him, he uses threats to stay out of his life. But the monster fare warns him of what is up in his near future, and Victor does not listen. ¨And then again I thought of his words-¨I will be with you on your wedding night.¨ That then was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny.¨ (Shelly, 123)
Now Elizabeth and Henry are dead. Isolation has caused problems in Victor life that can not be explained. All the build up of Isolation has turned into hatred. It causes him to despise what he has done, for he has now caused deaths of four people that he had loved and cannot take it back. What’s done is done, for all the work that he has done has all gone to waste out of fear, horror, and hatred. For it all was caused by a little bit of

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