Frankenstein By Mary Shelley Story Essay, Research Paper
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.