![]() ![]() He neglects his family and friends, abandons his creation and fails to take responsibility for his actions which leads to the deaths of many of those who should be near and dear to him. His alienation from society is self-imposed. However, his ambition leads him to become arrogant and extremely single-minded. Like the monster he has created, Victor is an isolated individual. Victor’s tragic endĪt the end of the novel, having chased his creation ever northward, Victor relates his story to Robert Walton and then dies. Even as he is dying, he will not admit fully to his mistakes and the reader is left wondering whether it is Victor who is the true monster. He became filled with revenge as what the monster was that he became preoccupied about chasing the monster to avenge Elizabeth Lavenza’s death. As it was wrong in the beginning, a series of tragedy followed with Victor’s bride Elizabeth being murdered by the monster during their wedding night. When Victor assented to the monster that he will create him a partner, he already assumed to have God like capabilities with what he knows about science. It revealed man’s tendency to become arrogant and to act like God when he already knows so much. Shelley’s novel Frankenstein also reveals the flaws of human character as depicted in the character of Victor Frankenstein. In Victor‘s discarding his own creation, there is a double edged critique of William Godwin’s concept of Utopia, where children would be produced by what he calls social engineering and rules out the need of sexual intercourse between man and woman as well as Mary Shelley’s criticism of parental neglect. Even though Victor abandons his own creation, the creation does not abandon him. Victor becomes a victim of his own creation that hounds at every step. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a Gothic Novel.Victor develops a consuming interest in the structure of the human frame: he longs to determine what animates it, what constitutes “the principle of life.” Seized by a “supernatural enthusiasm,” he begins explore life by studying its inevitable counterpart: death. Victor is also preoccupied with the question of how one might communicate with, or even raise, the dead. When he is seventeen, Victor‘s family decides to send him to the University of Ingolstadt, so that he might become worldlier. Though he acknowledges that such a discovery would bring one great wealth, what Victor really longs for is glory. The quest for the that becomes his obsession. Victor shares their desire to penetrate the secrets of nature, to search for the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life. His temper was not directed at other people, however : it manifested itself as a passionate desire to learn the secrets of heaven and earth. His friend Clerval, by contrast, was fascinated by ques morality, heroism, and virtue. Though Victor says that there can be no happier childhood than his, he confesses that he had a violent temper as a child. Victor by birth is a Genevese, and his family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. Victor is the oldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein. Victor was also a pen name of Percy Shelley’s, as in the collection of poetry he wrote with his sister Elizabeth, Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire. In addition to this, Shelley’s portrayal of the monster owes much to the character of Satan in Paradise Lost. Milton frequently refers to God as “the Victor” in Paradise Lost, and Shelley sees Victor as playing God by creating life. Undoubtedly, the creator of the monster is the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein. The name “Victor” is derived from Paradise Lost by John Milton, a great influence on Shelley. Victor Frankenstein Character Analysis Introduction ![]()
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