The Importance Of Relationship In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Mary Shelly in her novel Frankenstein expresses how although man develops into his own person, he is overall shaped into what he becomes by creator’s care. This novel shows the complications of relationship and how they can affect who we are and what we become in life. This affect can be for the good or the bad or a person, but affects them and how they treat others. Victor and his monster had very different lives as they were brought into the world, Victor with the care of his parents, and the monster with the hatred and detest from his creator Victor. These relationships influenced Victor for the positive which slowly deteriorated into negative and the monster similar with gravely different circumstances and the fact of being naïve. Relationships …show more content…
The responsibility of being his creators was taken on by them in the form of being his guides. Victor reflects the relationship between them was he was “ their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me” (Shelly 19). The obligation his parents lead to how Victor was brought up to be a gentlemen and a successful future of which he can reap the benefits. Part of Victor learning to be gentleman was that he “received a lesson of patients, of charity, and of self-control” (Shelly 19). These lessons of etiquette teach Victor to be a good person in life, and to help others when he is provided a chance to do so. The lesson of self-control will result in Victor being able to control his actions and decide his own path in life. He does just that when he decides that he shall not make a female monster counterpart for the monster he had created, although it may have saved his life and others around him, he does it so no one could get hurt by the pair of them, for the monster is “demon whose delight is in death and wretchedness” (Shelly 157). Victor’s parents guide him through his early life so that latter on he’ll be able to make good …show more content…
The monster endured may sorrows and torments because he was rejected for his appearances and how he came to be, although he did not choose to be created but yet he still reaps the consequences. The monster is congenial as observes the De Lacy as he had no malignant actions happen to him. He reflects “I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness” (Shelly 211). The monster had yet to have anything that could corrupt his naïve mind and see the world in a blissfully pure light. After horrid things had befell him, he loses sight of who he was before for he did not see how he ever was that way. The monster acknowledges he has committed wrong in his life that have harmed innocents. For this fact he is willing to take his own life once Victor ceases to live for there is no longer a reason for him to live. The monster discloses to Walton that “He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.” (Shelly 212). There is no longer a reason for neither his nor Victor’s to plaque all of the people that the pain of the deaths have hurt. All of the people, killed by the monster, deaths not only hurt Victor but others who cared for them. The monster knows that his very existence is pain for with