Jumanah Zoud Mr. Good Humanities 20 1 March 2023 Ambition in Frankenstein In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, ambition can be compared to a burning flame that drives the characters toward their goals. If left unchecked, it can quickly grow out of control, consuming everything in its path and leading to its ultimate downfall. Several different characters in Frankenstein depict ambition, which includes the portrayal of ambition by Victor Frankenstein, Captain Walton, and the monster Frankenstein creates. Frankenstein is scientifically ambitious; his goal was to become accomplished within the scientific field by creating life.
In Marry Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein selfishly goes on an unethical scientific journey to gain glory and fame. From a young age Victor has an abundant amount of knowledge and extraordinary ambition that he continues to cultivate through his unfaltering study of science and alchemy. After experiencing the tragic of death of his mother, Victor isolates himself in an attempt to reach the level of success he believes his knowledge and ambition entitles him to. Through his constant dedication to his work, the dangerous project that drives Victor insane comes to life on a dark and stormy night in Ingolstadt, Germany, forever changing his innocence and livelihood. The selfish manner in which Victor yearns to gain glory
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the story of passionate scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose devotion to science leads him to become obsessed with creating life, but his good intentions lead to a lifelong conflict with his problematic creation. This creature causes pain and suffering for Victor by killing his friends and family, which causes him to feel responsible for their deaths. Ambition’s dark and addictive side got the best of Victor, who became blinded by dreams of glory. Similarly, Don Quixote fails to identify the risks of ambition while exploring Spain. He wants to be a famous knight so badly that he begins to hallucinate obstacles that he must conquer.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been an American classic for almost 200 years, which contains both philosophical and moral themes in the text, making the reader question the limits of humankind and its desire for power. For every character presented in the story their independent desire to overcome their intentions becomes so intense that the future that lies upon them is nothing close to what they can imagine. Victor Frankenstein´s desire to quench his thirst for power ends up clouding his judgement and making him elude the future that awaits him. As Victor´s intention to succeed in natural sciences grow to an abnormal point, his judgement about what to do with that knowledge didn't let him contemplate the future consequences
Ambition Does Not Always Lead To Success In today’s world ambition is often seen as a good, successful thing. However, in the novel Frankenstein, Victor uses his ambition to create the Creature, which in this case is a creature; once the creature is created, he focuses his ambitions on killing all those close to Victor. Throughout the novel, Victor and the creature’s drive for ambition leads to tragedy, conflicts, and complications. Victor is intrigued with how God created so many things, so he also tries to perform these God-like tasks such as creating monstrous creatures.
In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, ambition evolves into a form of obsession with revenge. But the result of vengeance is a curse to human life and its longevity. Both main characters in the novel, Victor and the monster become obsessed and let vengeance be their downfall. Victor was a very ambitious character who longed for knowledge and the presence of new life. He soon became obsessed with his creation and said,“I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
A timeless human goal has always been to set visionary goals to advance the coming generations. Although many results can be successful, a great number of them can turn out deadly. In the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley illustrates the result of a man’s visionary motive of creating life, which consequents into the birth of the deadly creature. The creatures understanding of justice is based on eliminating anyone or anything preventing him from reaching his goal; accordingly, his actions to attempt revenge upon Victor only led to his downfall throughout the novel. The creature’s understanding of justice and it’s revenge against Victor is the driving force of the story because it builds up the anticipation the reader has for the final confrontation.
Ambition as propelling it is, however can lead to the demise of the person influenced by it. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, informs the reader of the consequences of ambition, by telling a story of man named Victor Frankenstein who is overwhelmed by his ambition to see the atrocities he commits. In his ignorance created a monster who served to be Victor’s mistake as he slaughtered his family members. The novel illustrates the dangers of ambition because it is the main reason of Victor’s downfall. Pursuing a desire too strongly as to cause obsession is what destroyed Victor.
This sense of being completely alone in a world full of people is further emphasized by Shelley in her character development of both Frankenstein and his monster. Although all of Frankenstein is written in the first person, there are multiple narrators to give us multiple insights and outside perspectives on each character. Also, Mary Shelley characterizes her characters through the naming of her characters or lack of as well. For example, the main character is named “Victor” which could lead one to infer, “Victory” and/or “Victim.” The tale begins with Victor desiring to create a creature on his own, his fleshly desire is to be a sort of “god” and beat nature.
In this essay, ambition is a key factor to the conflict of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. There are both benefits and risks to dedication towards an achievement, in this case ambition and desire affected Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the monster. At the age of seventeen, Frankenstein leaves the family at Geneva to college at Ingolstadt. Studying about life and chemistry hard, he ignores social life and his family at Geneva. He studies human life, and obsessed, he tries to find the secret to life.
Ambition and the pursuit of success are natural human instincts that drive us to continue living. But in many cases, the path to our goals and purpose is marred with poor choices that impact our moral code and beliefs. So the question is: How do ambitions affect someone’s moral conscience, and how far would and should they go to achieve their dreams? The four texts I will analyse in this essay are ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley, ‘Jurassic Park’ directed by Stephen Spielberg, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3’ directed by James Gunn. Victor Frankenstein, John Hammond, Dorian Gray, and the High Evolutionary are all literary characters that explore the complex nature of someone’s struggle with their
Monsters are often classified based upon their appearance and inhumane characteristics. In the book Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein tears apart graveyards for the formation of a new being, which is brought to life with electricity. Frankenstein was fascinated with life itself and wanted to create this being through the dead with the use of science. After multiple years of suturing this new being together Victor succeeded in bringing this creature to life. Although realizing what he had just created Victor is repulsed by this new being and calls him a Monster.
Mary Shelley shows the endless amount of revenge and that it is driven by pure hatred and rage. The monster was not created to be vengeful, he was kind hearted but when he was poorly treated by Victor and then by the Delacey family, he turned cold. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley displays the immorality and destructive effects that revenge can have through Frankenstein and his pursuit of the creature. Immediately after the monster had awoken, hatred thickened and would drive the plot to be all about revenge. The creature illustrates this hatred as he says to Victor, “Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view;
