Victor G. Atiyeh

Frankenstein, written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, follows Victor Frankenstein’s journey as he attains the necessary education and understanding of the human anatomy to be able to breath life back to an empty vessel. Inevitably creating the Frankenstein monster, an absolutely atrocious and terrifying abomination. Gradually Frankenstein learns of his peculiar inception and understands why his life is full of mistrust and misunderstanding, eventually leading him to seek revenge against Victor’s…

Dr. Frankenstein’s obsession with proving his superior intelligence leads him to violate the laws of nature, and create the creature. When Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life, he is delighted because he thinks he has become “greater than his nature will allow” (43); he enjoys having this “god like” ability. At first, he hesitates with his project of creating life, but he cannot control his desire for success so he begins to create a creature. He states, “I doubted at first whether I…

Passion is a powerful desire, and it is sometimes difficult to contain feelings and listen to the voice of reason. Such struggle is endured by Victor and his creature in the novel Frankenstein; both individuals are carried away by their overpowering passion that they do not see the irrationality behind their motives. Victor asserts that “[His] application soon became so ardent and eager, that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst [he] was yet engaged in [his] laboratory”,…

In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the similarities and dissimilarities that Victor Frankenstein and his creation share are the key factors leading to their demise. Frankenstein’s creation, who can perhaps most accurately be referred to as a self-proclaimed fallen Adam (CITATION), parallels his creator in many ways - including in their regret of their pursuit of knowledge and the way that they both begin with good intentions but become warped and trapped in a cycle of vengeance. However, the…

and end up botching things. Victor Frankenstein is unable to deal with this moral conflict in a logical manner, ultimately harming himself and others around him. Victor Frankenstein ends up morally betraying himself, creating an internal conflict that makes him take dubious choices that consequently lead to his demise. Victor Frankenstein had to deal with hard choices during the time span of the book, and those hard choices led to moral conundrums that…

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, cruelty is the emphasized theme in majority of the development of the plot. Victor Frankenstein, conducts a deceitful expedition to inherit satisfaction into creating a life, but over a course of time, Victor and his monstrous creation became dumbfounded by their own egocentric aspiration and aggrieved condemnation, in which it concluded into an appalling adversity for both Victor and his monstrous creation. Mary Shelley demonstrated to the audience that it is…

In the times that Frankenstein is written, exploration and application of science is exploding along with developments in all aspects in Industrial Revolution. One dramatic event in scientific community at that time is the famous “vitalist debate” engaged by two medical professionals John Abernethy advocating vitalism and William Lawrence propagating materialism. Critics constantly assume what standpoint in the debate is Shelley taking by analyzing her main character “the Creature” in…

novel uses the story of Victor, a figure who is at once a mother and a father, to display themes of parental negligence and the negative outcomes that this produces in the child. However, this negligence is not due to Victor being inherently less inclined to being a caregiver due to his sex. It’s because of his own personal failings. Victor’s behavior, its consequences, and his relationship to the Creature will be analyzed through a feminist lens, particularly…

Although there are a few positive actions in the novel such as the benevolent charity works of the Frankenstein family and Henry Clerval’s loyal friendship to Victor, they are overpowered by the central idea that humanity’s harsh treatment of the creature is the impetus for his malevolence and his desire for revenge. If society had not been cruel to the monster because of his physical appearance, the creature…

that all characters are not real-life persons; rather, they are constructed people who are represented in the narrative. For this reason, are two major characters worth describing and analyzing: Victor Frankenstein and the creature. Victor Frankenstein First and foremost, as the title alludes to his name, Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist of the novel. As he is one of the three first person narrators, he is mostly described indirectly by other characters such as Robert Walton. Each reader…