Victor Frankenstein’s motivation to create the creature was mostly derived from his need to fill the void from the loss of his mother. At his mother’s deathbed, Victor listens to his mother’s dying wish and recalls that even at death, her face showed signs of affection, while later describing her death causing there to be a, “the void that presents itself to the soul; and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance” (Shelley 45). Her death was not only a tragic event to his family, but it was especially to him as it brought him tremendous pain and despair leaving a “void” in his soul. Victor’s mother death not only affected him emotionally, but he had been driven to nearly insane, neglecting his health and rest to work on his creation.
