Raising Victor Vargas

In this passage from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor is overcome with disgust and horror at the sight of the creature he has reanimated. Consumed with fear, Victor decides to “seek a few moments of forgetfulness” (Shelley 35) and falls asleep. In his dreams he envisions his lover, Elizabeth transforming into his dead mother. Victor wakes from his nightmare with a start, only to face another one in real life. Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein is often interpreted as a response to the…

Is one born to kill? In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature, known by no true name, is brought to life by the protagonist of the story, Victor Frankenstein. Upon seeing what he has created, Frankenstein flees, leaving the creature to fend for himself. While trying to survive, the creation endeavors to make friends, but his attempts are only met with violence. Since the creature is shunned by society, and he is refused any sort of happiness, the creature is the true victim of the novel. The…

too far. Victor Frankenstein is a young student of science who aspire of finding the secret to creating life. After gazing upon his creation he is horrified by what he had done thus setting off a chain of miseries in his life. The novel comprise of Victor and his creation narrative. Both dealing with their own misfortunes and blaming the others wickedness. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster because of the cold and superficial ways he treated his friends, family, and creation. Victor shows…

book “Frankenstein” you will see at the beginning of the book a scientist named victor whose dream is to create a human like creature out of body parts from other people. Well you could say it was a success, but the monster was not like he expected and wanted to get rid of it. So for the next months to come, victor changes from a scientist to a hunter. Then the creature becomes a true monster to the cottagers and victors close friends and family, by killing and terrorizing them. The next…

In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man…

In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley repeatedly suggests—and eventually delivers upon—the imminence of doom based upon the protagonist’s unbridled ambition in order to warn of the gruesome consequences of hubris and ego. Victor Frankenstein, the title character and protagonist, seeked to discover the secret of creation, not to cure disease or to better the world, but instead, simply to gain fame and clout in the scientific community. Not only did Frankenstein aim to essentially “play God”…

is scrutinized and put up to the test as Victor neglects his creation causing his rampage. Yet Victor himself is quite hypocritical when speaking on the malignancy of the monster, as in many cases he himself exemplifies many of the characteristics that the creature posses such as both seek the destruction of the others as well as the damnation layer upon both for the nefarious actions committed. However, they are still quite different in that unlike Victor, the monster directly carried out many…

Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein, is about a man Victor Frankenstein who is dying and he shares his tale of horrific terror with a sea captain, Walton. Victor is able to create a creature made from body parts and was able to bring them back to life. Once he realized the creature has become destructive, he abandons the creature and tries to live a normal life with his fiancé, Elizabeth. The lonely creature hunts for Victor and asks one of two things: a bride or revenge. In the eyes of…

want, but one day the truth will catch up with you. Something similar happens to Victor Frankenstein in the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The physical journey of Victor Frankenstein from Geneva to Lake Como in Italy has been very challenging with a lot of obstacles in the way. No matter how fast one runs, his or her demons will always catch him or her. After getting a devastating letter from his father, Victor goes back to Geneva. "Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again…

Both Frankenstein and the creature have character flaws that lead them into a downward spiral to ultimate demise. It is during this spiral that the reader can see how the creature's flaws mirror those of Frankenstein and how they both give in to revenge, hatred and evil, and eventually death. The doppelganger connection is produced very quickly when Frankenstein’s creature comes alive and the first emotion the two share is misery. With the death of his little brother, Frankenstein describes that…