Sandra St. Victor

characterization of the creature as a “wretch”, a “daemon” and a “monster”, in truth, the creature was a gentle and noble soul whose mistreatment at the hands of his creator and society compelled him to behave like a monster, rather than actually become one. Victor develops a method to reanimate a dead body…

Clerval. In college at Ingolstadt, the discovered the secret to life and dedicated himself to created a human- like creature for six years but once it came alive, the thing was ugly. Frankenstein was disgusted by it, so he ran away from it. After that victor fell ill for several months. Meanwhile the monster wandered around looking for friends and spent a long time living near a cottage and observing a family who lived there. While the was watching them the learned how to speak, read, and other…

Victor Frankenstein is a good and kind man, well-educated, sensitive, and a very loving. At the same time he is slightly crazy, he lets his creative mind get the best of him and decides to work his brain to the biggest test, by creating a monster. Victor assembles the monster out of old body parts, and strange chemicals than activated by a mysterious spark. He is extremely strong and averages 8ft tall. Throughout the book as a reader you realize all the similarities between the two, their…

of his actions throughout Frankenstein, Victor has proven himself to be extremely selfish and egocentric. While he may put on a front of wanting to protect his family and loved ones, he only cares about himself. When the monster approaches him about making him a mate, Victor acts like he wants to protect his family from the monster, but really he does not want to take the responsibility of his actions which lead up to this confrontation. The true reason Victor procrastinates creating the…

novel, Victor proves to be mature from being unable to accept his fault for his actions to later realizing the damage he has cause and eventually attempting to fix them. In the beginning of the novel, Victor is not willing to take responsibility for his actions which makes him immature. The first time Victor proves to be immature is when he does not consider the possible consequences that could happen for giving life to a creature before he begins to create his creature. Since Victor…

The Final Words of Grendel “Poor Grendel’s had an accident. . . So may you all” (Gardner 174). These are the last words that Grendel, was able to breath out just moments before his death. The meaning of his words are quite controversial. His final phrase is more of a curse or a prediction than a blessing, that is directed towards the humans. To begin with, Grendel never cared nor ever enjoyed the humans and their doings. The Monster is obvious enraged by the fact that a human was able to…

Although it may seem otherwise, Victor Frankenstein and the creature share many of the same traits and qualities. Both Victor and the creature experience isolation from the world, along with sadness and loneliness. They both have a passion for knowledge and learning, as well as a curiosity for life. Lastly, they both lack close and loving relationships, causing them to act spiteful and vengeful. Overall, the parallels between Victor and his creation grow more apparent throughout the novel…

was of a lustrous black…” This quote from Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, describes the monster that Victor Frankenstein creates on his own. Although the monster is portrayed with fear and horror, Shelly writes on the monster’s actions in a way that makes readers feel sympathetic towards him. Throughout the novel, readers tend to feel compassion towards the monster because of the way Victor abandons him and his isolation from society. Shelley describes the monster as a terrifying creature…

Throughout the entire novel, the Creature is exposed to stimuli that shapes the being that he becomes. The Creature is inherently social, but the stimulus of the villagers shaped who became. When he tried to peacefully talk to the them, he was shunned on more than one occasion. The first time is when he wanted to introduce himself to the cottagers and in result, Felix runs at him and, ¨[strikes him] violently with a stick¨ (Frankenstein, 134). When the Creature kills the young boy, he is…

The intrigue of any science fiction novel is derived from the fascination of the hypothetical but plausible realities presented. Mary Shelley’s 1818 critically acclaimed science fiction/Gothic novel, Frankenstein, is about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, facing the repercussions after he creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox experiment. Ostensibly about a story about revenge, the novel can have different perspectives depending on a changing audience. From the…