Victor's Illnesses In Frankenstein

Throughout the story Frankenstein had many illnesses caused both by himself and his creation. Even though you can say his creation primarily caused all of his illnesses, I don't believe that you can put the blame on his creation. Many argue if Victor is really sick or are his illnesses mere manifestations of a horribly guilty mind. Victor constantly gets sick either physically, mentally, or both. Many of his illnesses are from his regrets and stresses which cause him to separate from society. Months can be consumed from Victor with these illnesses. Victor also has the tendency to be ill whenever he feels guilt and holds a responsibility to do something. For example, right after creating his monster he realizes how scary and terrifying it …show more content…
The monster killed family, friends, and important people in Victor's life after feeling betrayed. He became to fall ill after all of his tragedies. I believe the main reason of his illness is that he feels so guilty that no one knows about his creation and that he created something that murdered people , created crimes and destruction. I believe illness brings out the end of the story. After losing the monster in the Ice he falls ill. This instance creates a different type of illness because of the obvious fact that Frankenstein does not recover, but ends up dying instead. For Victor, death is the only escape, allowing him to finally stop fighting the illnesses that always brought him nothing but misery and that he did everything he could to avoid fighting his illnesses. The fact that he found this escape of illnesses on the boat with Walton is no coincidence, however.
The illness lets him escape from any responsibility he has and also to talk about his guilt. He always regains his health, of course, because he has obligations to the people around him to appear normal and also to himself to stop the monster. Eventually, however, these obligations both end and he escapes into illness and never comes back, dying on Walton’s