The hope of manipulating life is the source of many dreams but what happen when one man is haunted by that achievement. In Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, deals with the consequence of one man's fascination with life and death that went too far. Victor Frankenstein is a young student of science who aspire of finding the secret to creating life. After gazing upon his creation he is horrified by what he had done thus setting off a chain of miseries in his life. The novel comprise of Victor and his creation narrative. Both dealing with their own misfortunes and blaming the others wickedness. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster because of the cold and superficial ways he treated his friends, family, and creation. Victor shows a
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Victor finally finished creation and look upon it in disgust, “I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep"(Shelley Chap 5). Victor chronicle how he chose his monster features to look beautiful but when he looked at the finish product he could not handle his superficial ways. He knew what he was doing yet when it was done he callously classify his creation as horrifying. Victor sees his creation as a monster before he ever done anything. He wanted to play God yet he did not want to assume the full responsibilities that came with …show more content…
His reputation was more important than the people of his life. After gazing upon his accomplishment his shallowness made him castaway his creation and let a person equivalent to a newborn survive on his own. Victor obsession with being the creator of his own race caused his downfall. Instead of accepting his mistakes he made it a point to blame the monster for every misery in his life. Victor had a lot of thoughts on how he wanted to save his friends and family but never act onto it until the end. Even at the end he acted the same way years ago like he did in his
Victor finally finished creation and look upon it in disgust, “I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep"(Shelley Chap 5). Victor chronicle how he chose his monster features to look beautiful but when he looked at the finish product he could not handle his superficial ways. He knew what he was doing yet when it was done he callously classify his creation as horrifying. Victor sees his creation as a monster before he ever done anything. He wanted to play God yet he did not want to assume the full responsibilities that came with …show more content…
His reputation was more important than the people of his life. After gazing upon his accomplishment his shallowness made him castaway his creation and let a person equivalent to a newborn survive on his own. Victor obsession with being the creator of his own race caused his downfall. Instead of accepting his mistakes he made it a point to blame the monster for every misery in his life. Victor had a lot of thoughts on how he wanted to save his friends and family but never act onto it until the end. Even at the end he acted the same way years ago like he did in his