The creation of artificial life has been an endeavor that many scientists over the centuries have attempted to do. To people in this current century, the concept of creating life artificially is an old theory, however, it was an innovative and frightening prospect to the Gothics in the early 1800s. Author Mary Shelley preys upon this fear in her story Frankenstein in which a naïve natural scientist named Victor Frankenstein discovers a way to create life and uses this knowledge to give life to an eight foot tall monster. The hubristic Victor, after the creation of the monster, rejects it leaving it to roam Europe without anything to supervise its actions. Through its words and actions in the novel, the monster shows that it is an extremely
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After its creation, the only person in the world that should have accepted its existence completely rejects it, claiming he feels utter disgust and horror for the creature he himself spent the better part of two years creating (Shelley 25). Victor abandons the monster who he allows to wander out of his dwelling into a cold, dark world it feels is completely alien. Its second encounter with human beings in a cottage has a similar result to its introduction to Victor, it is rebuffed; “An old man…perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable” (Shelley 55). Its third encounter with people in the village goes over worse than the other two as “children shrieked, and one of the women fainted…some fled, some attacked me” (Shelley 56). Due to its previous receptions, the monster keeps itself hidden from others. Later on when it builds up the courage to again attempt to interact with a family that it has been secretly observing and getting attached to, it is violently ousted from the cottage by the son who believed that it was going to hurt his father (Shelley 74) and the family takes further action to move away because of this encounter (Shelley 75). Its frustration at its continuous rejection from society is shown in its desperate grasp to create a companion in William (Shelley 78). The monster eventually tracks down Victor and attempts to convince him to create a female monster in its likeness (Shelley 80), but Victor later goes back on his word destroying the female monster (Shelley 92). The only way the monster finds a way to be in a form of companionship with its creator, its father, is when it taunts him into following it across Europe (Shelley 115). And after Victor meets his untimely end, it deems that it has no other reason to live now that it is completely alone and promises to dispatch
After its creation, the only person in the world that should have accepted its existence completely rejects it, claiming he feels utter disgust and horror for the creature he himself spent the better part of two years creating (Shelley 25). Victor abandons the monster who he allows to wander out of his dwelling into a cold, dark world it feels is completely alien. Its second encounter with human beings in a cottage has a similar result to its introduction to Victor, it is rebuffed; “An old man…perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable” (Shelley 55). Its third encounter with people in the village goes over worse than the other two as “children shrieked, and one of the women fainted…some fled, some attacked me” (Shelley 56). Due to its previous receptions, the monster keeps itself hidden from others. Later on when it builds up the courage to again attempt to interact with a family that it has been secretly observing and getting attached to, it is violently ousted from the cottage by the son who believed that it was going to hurt his father (Shelley 74) and the family takes further action to move away because of this encounter (Shelley 75). Its frustration at its continuous rejection from society is shown in its desperate grasp to create a companion in William (Shelley 78). The monster eventually tracks down Victor and attempts to convince him to create a female monster in its likeness (Shelley 80), but Victor later goes back on his word destroying the female monster (Shelley 92). The only way the monster finds a way to be in a form of companionship with its creator, its father, is when it taunts him into following it across Europe (Shelley 115). And after Victor meets his untimely end, it deems that it has no other reason to live now that it is completely alone and promises to dispatch