Victor Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein the Antagonist The main character, Victor, faces many hard times in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. He is forced to deal with many deaths and difficult decisions, but he is not innocent; in fact, he is the one to blame. Victor is the antagonist because he let Justine take the blame for the murder of his brother, made the creature live a miserable life, and he refused the creature a companion. Most people can say they do the right thing when it comes to confessing their wrongs, but not Victor. His curiosity and selfishness caused the death of an innocent girl named Justine. She is Victor’s families servant, and she did nothing but help him and his family. On page 85, the author states,…

Moreover, Frankenstein portrays two characters on a quest for perfection. At the beginning of the book Walton is trying to perfect navigation and attain a goal that is unnatural. He tries to map the North Pole, a daunting task, and achieve something that has not been documented in human history. However at the end, he is unsuccessful and returns home with dead and weary sailors. Similarly, many Romantic authors believed that a unnatural task will lead to a miserable life if not demise. In the…

knowledge” (Shelley 31). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was a vivid representation of how acquiring too much knowledge, has the power to ruin one's life. After Victor conducted his experiment, he realized the horror of his results, which deeply shattered his original expectations. Following the experiment, Victor’s life had slowly fallen apart, and was never the same again. Consequently, what Victor discovered from his experiment redefined his overall perception of reality. The…

's book: Frankenstein is about a Doctor named Victor Frankenstein and about a monster who he created which is referred to as The Monster. Which is commonly referred to in modern day media as Frankenstein himself. This could easily lead the reader to believe Frankenstein 's Monster to be Frankenstein himself, as they have a lot of similarities through out the book; the only evidence to dispute this is when Captain Walton and his crew sees The Monster, after days of being stranded in ice, which…

Justice is something that everyone in this world desires to have. By having justice everything in the world must be going right, but there is also injustice which sometimes is wrongly received. Nobody gets to choose if you get to live a good or bad life that is up to you. In this novel of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates a creature or monster as it’s said in the book. The monster life is injustice from the start to end. For example, the monster is friendly in the beginning trying to…

— a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." (pg. 12) Walton wrote this in his first letter to his sister. Frankenstein has a great passion for chemistry and try to find a way to bring the dead back to life. He accomplishes this but his creation looks like a monster and then because to feel like an outcast and begins to destroy and get revenge on Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein is not a hero, for he created a creature and abandoned him, he let the monster murder and he let the…

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…

away from the truth. You can lie all you 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…

In Memory Victor Frankenstein A loss in the community this past weekend as well known scientist Victor Frankenstein died on Friday ,13th Auguest,1733 after contracting severe pneumonia after reports of haven previously fallen through an ice floe while on an expedition in the Artic. Born to the parents of Alphonse and Caroline on Friday, 13th of April, 1968 in Naples, Italy, Victor Frankenstein was oldest of three boys William (Deceased) and Ernest (Deceased) and two adopted sister Elisabeth…

The novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley demonstrates certain injustice happening to a character known as the monster/creature. Some may say that Victor Frankenstein is the one actually experiencing injustice because of the tragedies he’s dealing with; however, he brought those tragedies onto himself knowing the consequences. The creature was brought into the world not knowing right from wrong; therefore, the way that he reacts to the injustice he is experiencing is understandable. The monster…