Comparing The Fascination Of Life And Death In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
In the story Frankenstein, Mary Shelley explains as a young man, Victor's interests lie in science, chemistry, and of the balance and contrasts between life and death. While a university student, Victor becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life out of inanimate objects and starts considering how to do so. Victor thought he was doing a service to humanity by creating a new human being. He slowly transformed over the course of the story, from an innocent young man that is amazed by what science could bring, into an arrogant, delusional man.
Victor Frankenstein does not make the monster out of the fascination of life and death. Victor Frankenstein is a man from a privileged family who becomes obsessed with pursuing scientific advancements, and is eventually able to create a living being. While Victor does succeed at creating a living being, he does not succeed at creating a human being. He is deeply affected by his mother’s death and continue his research, eventually devising a technique for imparting living for non-living matter. When Victor loses his mother, his emotions falsely lead him to …show more content…
Victor Frankenstein does not make the monster out of the fascination of life and death. He had become consumed by his quest for greatness, a mission to have his named passed through generations as the man who had created life. Victor creates the monster for the sake of pure glory, for immortality, both in the name and liberty. Victor says "A new species would bless me as its creator and source’’(Shelley100). He also creates the monster for the idea of being able to bestow life upon himself. Truly his motives are selfish and, as he created the monster, he thought nothing of what would do with the monster after was created, bore absolutely no responsibility in
Victor Frankenstein does not make the monster out of the fascination of life and death. Victor Frankenstein is a man from a privileged family who becomes obsessed with pursuing scientific advancements, and is eventually able to create a living being. While Victor does succeed at creating a living being, he does not succeed at creating a human being. He is deeply affected by his mother’s death and continue his research, eventually devising a technique for imparting living for non-living matter. When Victor loses his mother, his emotions falsely lead him to …show more content…
Victor Frankenstein does not make the monster out of the fascination of life and death. He had become consumed by his quest for greatness, a mission to have his named passed through generations as the man who had created life. Victor creates the monster for the sake of pure glory, for immortality, both in the name and liberty. Victor says "A new species would bless me as its creator and source’’(Shelley100). He also creates the monster for the idea of being able to bestow life upon himself. Truly his motives are selfish and, as he created the monster, he thought nothing of what would do with the monster after was created, bore absolutely no responsibility in