Themes Of Fate And Free Will In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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In the first ten chapters of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein’s life preceding to the beginning of his miseries is presented in his own voice that displays his traits as a human being. He was one to be his own person in a way that he was stubborn about what he wanted to learn. Frankenstein has a very self-centered personality and while he is very intellectual, he has a shallow view of the world around him. Other characters such as Victor’s parents, Elizabeth, and few other people in Victor’s life were mentioned. The first few chapters actually foreshadow a lot of what’s going to happen to the later part of Victor’s life. Themes of fate and free will gets played due to the undertones of Frankenstein’s

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