He does not have a plan for what he will do after his experiment is successful because he only concerns himself with the process itself and not the aftermath. It would be akin to a parent only being concerned with the act of having a child than thinking about what to do with that child once he or she is born. The pursuit of knowledge is a noble one, but what is done with that knowledge is what separates a worthy cause from a foolish one. By that measure, Victor Frankenstein could be considered criminally negligent because he unleashes what he believes to be a monster into the …show more content…
In the end, he warns that ambition should be avoided whenever possible. He acts as though fate was cruel to him and that no one else should even attempt to be ambitious in their lives. This is an overreaching conclusion on his part because ambition in healthy doses is not what led to his demise, it was his obsession with pushing scientific boundaries and becoming a god at any cost. It was his ego and narcissism which doomed him to continue making the same