Victor's Ambition In Frankenstein

If you had the option to bring anything -or anyone- back from the dead, would you take the opportunity knowing there’d be consequences? In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the main character Victor Frankenstein gains an obsession with discovering the secret to reanimating a corpse. His morbid obsession begins to drive him insane. His colleagues call him deranged, but no distractions deterred Victor from his fascination. He becomes very sickly and even leaves his lover and his sanity behind all for his obsession. He spends months in trial and error until one seemingly fateful day, his experiment becomes a success. However, there’s a problem; he sees it as a “monstrosity” and he abandons it out of fear. His creation asks one thing from him to make up for his wrong doing toward him, and Victor had to decide if completing his request was the right way to fix his mistake. His creation wants a friend. …show more content…
He didn’t make the right decision because he honestly owes the favor of making a companion for his original creation so he doesn't have to live with the burden of being so lonely. His creature didn’t ask to be made and Victor did not have to go to such a large scale with his experiment. The creature just wants to be happy, and Victor should either fulfill his wish or find another way to fix his immoral mistake. The creation has also not been able to fit in with humanity at all. Every time the creature has hope in humanity, he gets hurt, and that is Victor’s fault. Victor was very irresponsible to abandon his