Insanity In Frankenstein

Frankenstein Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein is a dramatic novel revolving around despair, vanity, and revenge. Victor Frankenstein, a depressed scientist, created a grotesque new life form from his infatuation with the sciences. Using dead body parts from both humans and animals, Victor assembled a new human life form by passing electricity through the body he created. By combining bits and pieces of different humans and animals, Frankenstein created a being that was very conflicted about the way he looked. The first book the creature should have read is Moby Dick or The Whale. Captain Ahab had lost his leg when he first tried to catch the whale (Moby Dick). Wanting revenge Captain Ahab became obsessed with trying to catch Moby Dick. The second encounter with the large whale resulted with the Captain losing his life. Revenge is a double ended store. The monster shouldn’t have been so obsessed with revenging his ungodly looks and instead he should’ve realized that his desire for revenge will do more harm to himself. The creature killed Victor’s brother, wife, and father in an act to avenge himself. Not long after their death Victor fell ill and died resulting in the creature killing himself because of his guilt and grief. Another …show more content…
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Moby Dick The Whale, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame would have helped the creature realize that not everything meets the eye. In Moby Dick The Whale the creature would learn about revenge and how revenge will not satisfy his desire to be loves. In The Picture of Dorian Gray the creature could learn that vanity can lead to your demise and the creature should find friends that will like him for himself. In The Hunchback of Notre Dame the creature would find that despite being lonely now he would find love. The creature was a flawed being that just wanted to be accepted by