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- In the story “Frankenstein,” written by the author Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein
- decided that wanted to create
- a being out of people that were already dead. He believed that he could bring people
- back from the grave. Playing
- with nature in such a way would make him play the role of God. With Victor Frankenstein
- feeling that he had no
- true friends, the only relief he had of expressing his feeling was through letters to Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth was not
- Victors’ true sister but he loved her very dearly, making sure to always write her when
- ever he had the chance. Yet,
- when Victor left something strange came over him. Already being interested in subjects
- such as natural philosophy
- and chemistry, he fall upon the question of how to bring someone back to life. He became
- very involved in this
- project and worked on it for days on end. The project had to do with defying the laws of
- nature. Victor believe
- wholeheartedly that he could bring the dead back to life. He felt that the dead were not
- ready to die and they were
- just resting. Victor became so self absorbed into his project that he seem to forget all that
- was important to him. He
- even disengaged himself from all the people he loved in his life. People like his father,
- Elizabeth, and other loved
- ones. Victor began to write less and less. Yet, it was not until Elizabeth got a discouraged
- letter from Victor, did his
- love ones start to wary about him. Though, the letter was full of words, it gave no relief to
- Elizabeth, because the
- words meant nothing to her. However, they meant a lot to Victor, because he felt the
- project in which he was
- working on was so important to him, in his own delirious world. He felt that with bring
- people back to life he would
- not only better man kind, but also establish a name for himself. With this type of attitude,
- he did not even take into
- consideration that he might make the world a worse place. This part in the story shows the
- irony. The irony being
- that Victor Frankenstein feels he is doing something good for the world, but we later find
- out just how bad this
- creation could be. Though Elizabeth wanted to pull Victor away from his project, he was
- unwilling to leave until it is
- complete. After Victor found how to bring his creation to life, he also found out just how
- evil his invention could be.
- His creation was strong and evil. With the escape of the monster, Victor Frankenstein had
- to come to realization of
- what his creation might do and the consequences that Frankenstein, himself would have to
- deal with. With the
- murder of his brother weighing the guilt on his shoulders, Frankenstein know he had to do
- something. So he went
- looking for the monster. Upon their meeting each other, the monster confessed that when
- he found out that William
- as Victor’s brother he killed him. He then proceeded to tell him that he killed his brother
- due to the fact that he was
- trying to get back at his creator for bringing him to life and allowing him to be an out cast
- in society. This killing
- prove to Victor that the monster did not know right from wrong or how to cope with his
- anger. This aggression
- made Frankenstein's creation violent. While talking with the monster, the monster
- demanded from Frankenstein to
- create a partner that he could be able to live with away for society. At first, agreeing to the
- demand, but later
- realized that if his first creation came out to be a killer so could the second one. With this
- in mind Frankenstein
- revoked his agreement and decided against creating another monster. Though, knowing
- that this decision could be
- dangerous to him and his loved ones. Yet, he had to think of what was truly best for man
- kind. Bringing the dead to
- life or saving the lives of the living. Another peace of irony in this story is, just like Victor
- Frankenstein who had no
- friends and was different from the rest of society so was the monster. Also, when
- Frankenstein decided to play God
- and bring the dead to life, his creation took on the same role when he decided to take
- away some ones life. All in
- all, both Frankenstein and his creation had some of the same behaviors and both were
- going to die themselves and
- be lonely meanwhile.
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