Ingolstadt

his life, he travels to many different villages throughout Italy with his mother and father for the first five years of his life. Years later, a few weeks after his mother’s death, Frankenstein leaves his home in Geneva to attend the university in Ingolstadt. After the tragic murder of his brother, William, he sets off to travel Europe for two years with his best friend, Clerval. After his creation murders all of his loved ones, Frankenstein develops an obsessive thirst for revenge against his…

beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany he invents a secret formula to place life into dead organics. Shelly portrays Frankenstein’s creature as a liminal being in both the natural and supernatural and is a being that is “on the brink of life and death, which appears…

Mary Shelley in her book, Frankenstein, uses various images and detailed diction to introduce the perception that the creature is human, and expresses his humanity through eloquent speech, thoughts, and caring behavior to find his place among nature. In the beginning of the book he is depicted as a monster, a freak of nature, an abomination. Towards the middle, portrayed as a gentle giant, emotional, compassionate, knowledgeable, understanding. Towards the end, purposeless, like father like son…

Humans have the potential to become a monster, but whether that potential displays itself or not depends on the person and their environment. When a person does posses the traits of a monster though, like Victor in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it can have disastrous consequences on everyone around them. In the novel, Victor begins as a humble university student striving for more knowledge. Meanwhile, he becomes more selfish and is void of any compassion towards the being he creates. As a…

She cannot fend off her illness, and dies. With her goes any hope and cheer the family once had. Following the death of his mother, Victor departs for the University of Ingolstadt to become further educated in sciences. He promises his family that he will write and makes his way for school. Starting off on a negative note, M. Krempe asserts that all of Victor’s education up to this point has been useless and that he must…

Victor’s obsession with science clouded his judgment causing great suffering in his personal life. Events in his life that show his clouded judgment include: abandoning the monster he created, letting a close family friend die to conceal his secret at all costs, and destroying the companion he had promised to make for the monster. Victor Frankenstein grew up in a very supportive and wealthy home. Frankenstein lived as an only child until the age of five. At this age, Victor’s mother decided…

Victor came from a well off family, his father was highly “respected by all who knew him, for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business” (Shelley 33). He was able to go to college, where he got a good education, “[m]y departure for Ingolstadt, which had…

The three themes that are well suited for the Protagonist of the story Victor Frankenstein are pursuit of knowledge, Guilt/regret, and Man playing God. Victor Frankenstein are these types of themes because of what he went through in the story of his trial and errors. The theme pursuit of knowledge comes from the studies of science and what is life from the world itself. Guilt/regret comes from the struggles and hardships he went through such as the deaths of loved ones. Finally Man playing God…

Throughout United States history one conspiracy has remained unanswered for generations which to this day still remains a mystery. The question of whether the illuminati actually exists consists of facts or false proof. The conspiracies have shown proof of illuminati triangles everywhere but it still seems unknown whether these symbols are reliable or pure coincidences. Among the world people believe that the illuminati owns the world, with power greater than imaginable. One quote by Melanson…

Themes throughout the Stories The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly has been used in Hollywood since 1931 to entertain people by scaring them. However, in Hollywood’s version of the story such as the 1931 film Frankenstein directed by James Whale and the 1974 film Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brookes, they lose some of the themes that are present throughout the book. One such theme is the theme of secrecy. I believe that the book is better because it describes more events throughout…