Examples Of Struggles In Frankenstein

Frankenstein’s Inner Struggles Have you ever wondered why someone is behaving a certain way, or maybe even wondered these things about yourself? Something is usually always causing these actions and behaviors, yet you may not even be aware of it. This question left me wanting to find the causes of Victor Frankenstein’s actions and why he did some of the things that he did. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, she writes in detail about Victor Frankenstein’s life. She takes the readers through his childhood, family life, friends, homeschooled education, as well as his experiences at the University at Ingolstadt. However, the story mainly focuses on Victor’s obsession with the secrets of human life and the dangers of obtaining too much

Victor focuses on this and only this for about two years, disregarding his health and well-being. By creating this creature, he suffers many harsh consequences, with which he must live for the rest of his life. Victor acted the way that he did in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, because of how he dealt with his mother’s death by pushing it down and getting trapped in the idea of creating more life instead, which led to the beginning of his unfortunate and wretched days. Mary Shelley could be suggesting that the worst way to deal with grief is to shut yourself out from the world and forget about your health.

Many people who have rough or traumatic upbringings reflect who they are and what they do later on in life, in good or bad ways. However, Victor had a

When he realized he had finally completed his creation, he said "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (Shelley 58). I think that what he has been doing and what he has done finally caught up with him when it was too late. He was terrified of what he had done and wanted to get as far away from it as possible, hoping it would never creep back up on him. “Victor Frankenstein's actions stem from incest-avoidance: “his fear leads to the creation of the monster and to the demise of his circle” (Vlasopolos). Victor feels many emotions after traumatic events and experiences, however, most people are not aware of it until they feel a bit more “normal” again. I think Victor is aware of how he is feeling at most times, but still does not know how to cope with it. He says, “Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear” (Shelley 93). Victor on the other hand, always seems to identify his emotions and why he feels the way he does. I think this is because he is so familiar with the sciences of the world and why people feel and act like they do. After the death of Justine, Victor explains that there was this feeling in his heart that will just quite never