Raising Victor Vargas

The quest for knowledge, and the danger in the quest, is a main theme in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. The novel’s three main characters, Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster all relentlessly search for different kinds of knowledge. They each discover danger and even tragedy in their obsessive quests. Robert Walton is the captain of a ship on a very dangerous voyage. It’s his quest to be the first man to successfully navigate to the North Pole. He explains to his sister in a…

Psychoanalysis of Victor Frankenstein Depression and bipolar are two disorders that will make a person basically want to end their life. An example is Victor Frankenstein. Victor was a man who fell in love with the science of bringing things/ people back to life. With his new found interest, Victor began creating his monster (Frankenstein). Once he did, the monster became destructive and harmful. Thus it was to be exiled and Victor along with it. As a result of being exiled Victor became very…

“Frankenstein”, the character of Victor goes against nature itself and creates a living thing; a monster. However, once he does this he is not ready to live with the consequences of his actions. When Victor realizes the monster killed William, when Justine is accused of killing William, and when Elizabeth dies at the wedding, Victor could have saved himself had he realized the repercussions of creating the monster and took responsibility for…

For years science fiction has opened doors to our imagination for it often explores imagined scientific innovations and technology. As a result, we can witness how science fiction works of art, despite the difference in time periods, can parallel one another. The science fiction novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly in 1818, exhibited a young scientist who diverts from the natural world and creates a grotesque yet conscious monster. Succeeding the novel, there was a rise of the various…

“human “ of the two”, I personally think the monster portrays less human characteristics then Victor, as Victor shows human errors time and time again. Kenneth Branagh portrays the character of Victor Frankenstein, perfectly as he shows distress and emotion to what the monster has done to him. Helena Bonham Carter acts as Elizabeth and masters the character of Elizabeth. Bonham Carter’s emotion towards Victor really helps the viewer connect with the film. Overall I think the actors and actresses…

Self-perception is the idea that you have about the kind of person you are and what others think of themselves. Edward Weathers Hill conducted a study on person perception, “For the purposes of this study, the construct was defined as the ability of an individual to make inferences or draw conclusions about the beliefs, desires, intentions, emotional experiences, cognitions, and/or personality characteristics of other individuals”. (Hill) In today’s time and the time of Frankenstein, people…

Mary Shelley made predicting what would happen in Frankenstein fairly easy because she would foreshadow certain events. Foreshadowing is a very important literary device when reading and writing a book. Foreshadowing helps the reader predict what will happen next. For example, horror movies are incredibly easy to predict what will happen next. If the young teenager is about to open the closet while creepy music plays, we can predict that they are going to die. I think that Frankenstein…

Frankenstein’s bride. This creation brings so much distress to Frankenstein and it punishes him for making it so ugly and deciding not to make a companion for it. This monster is punished by not being made a companion and it ends up running away from Victor Frankenstein for a while as it shows in the beginning of the novel. The death of this monster is not shown in this novel but it spends a life escaping from its maker or…

shows the power of Nature is by describing the characters reactions to it. Victor Frankenstein was horrified from the outcome of his experiment which was the creation of the monster. He tried to fix his depression from his horror and decides to go into Nature. In the novel, During Victors trip to the Alps, he says, “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal nature bade me weep no more” (Shelley 65). Victor went into Nature to help soothe his pain and he reacts to Nature by…

truth even though Justine is considered as murderer, and might be sentenced to death. His only concern of confession is he might be considered as madness. As Lars Lunsford criticizes in the article “The Devaluing of Life in Shelley’s Frankenstein”, “Victor Frankenstein doesn’t value life in the absolute. Instead, he places a higher worth on his reputation” (174). Dr. Frankenstein actually does not care about Justine’s life. He knows that he is the indirect murder of his brother, but he tries to…