Examples Of Loss Of Innocence In Frankenstein

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The Monsters innocence seems to be already pre-determined that it will be lost because of Victor. When the monster was first created or born, he can be compared to a human baby. The monster like a baby, being very dependent and unknowledgeable. His views of the world were already negatively skewed because of the actions of his creator. The Monster just thirsty for love, like the love given by a parent, is instead unfortunately plagued with isolation. This isolation makes the monster cold, his innocence is now being diminished by the rude awakening of the cruel world. This eventually hurtles the monster into a fury and ends poor innocent William’s life, "I gazed on my victim and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph" (Shelley 83). With the …show more content…

He has committed a crime so terrible that no one should excuse. The other main character that needs to be examined, is Victor Frankenstein. His loss of innocence is a result to his never-ending thirst for knowledge. Victor leaves to college bright eyed and ready to learn all that is to be learned. His learnings at home as a Boy, were those of good intention. Victor leaves for college, on a journey for a better life. But his experience at University, have destroyed his innocence. The plot manages the contention that is inside Victor Frankenstein, who delivers a colossal animal. Victor is disturbed at the site of the animal he has made. "I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived"(43). When, Victor rejects the beast, he meets a family that draws out his touchy side. At the point when these individuals dismiss him, the animal wrecks everything in locate. "I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a staglike