Frankenstein And Belonging Quotes

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the story of a young man named Victor Frankenstein who does the unthinkable, creates life from dead flesh. Victor is a young, educated and wealthy member of society who grows up in a loving home with high standards of ethics and morality. He creates a creature out of impulse with little thought of its future well-being and abandons it carelessly. The creature is left to discover life without teaching or direction. Only when the creature impacts Victor’s life, by taking away his loved ones, is Victor forced to deal with the consequences of his own actions. Frankenstein’s Creation manages to satisfy many of his physical needs of food, shelter and warmth, but he continually searches for acceptance and belonging.

He desperately wants to be loved. He cannot accept the thought of being alone. This prompts him to seek out his creator, the one person who owes him love and acceptance, but Victor rejects him cruelly and swiftly. The creature makes one last desperate request to join society and be a part of humanity by asking Victor, “You must create me a female, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being,”(Shelley, 104). The creature explains that his need for love and acceptance is a necessity for life. He understands that no one will love him unless they know his pains. A wife would give him the love and acceptance he finds necessary for existence and also would allow him to be

When Victor destroyed the female creature, he destroyed the male creature’s chances at being human. Victor was trying to create a human being, but denied his creation the one thing that would make him a person, love. Victor denied the creature everything. He gave the creature life and then abandoned it. He did not nurture it, care for it, teach it, and love it. As Lee e. Heller said in “A Cultural Perspective on Frankenstein”, “As with Victor and Walton, it is possible to blame the irresponsibility of the parent-creator for the actions of his creature. Victor clearly was derelict in abandoning what was in effect a helpless outcast infant,” (Heller, 336). Victor time and time again failed his pseudo child and efficiently transformed a misunderstood person into a monster. The monster’s chance at being human was destroyed by Victor. The creature became a monster when he made the choice to start killing Victor’s family. Before he was compassionate, caring, loving, but all of his attempts to become human failed and he then embraced his monstrous alias, thereby turning his back on