Studying And Learning In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '
The need for studying and learning can eventually take over one’s life as it would do with Victor. As this point of the novel Victor has achieved what he wanted to do which to college and studied natural philosophy. This he has completed and done but something happened to him that caused him to want to stay in Geneva rather than going back home. We learn that he is on the verge of learning how to reanimate dead bodies and this prevents him from leaving rather than wanting to go home. We find out in the following passage of how he felt when he was discovering something new and incredible: “ The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit” ( 34). This represents when one is actively learning something and