Frankenstein Byronic Hero Quotes

The Byronic hero is a primary part in the Gothic novel Frankenstein. A Byronic-Hero is the main character in a story: He is often portrayed as an outcast in society, seeming to do questionable things but having good intentions. Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist in Mary Shelley's novel, is the Byronic Hero because he demonstrates the characteristics of being an intelligent, obsessive, isolated, and an arrogant man, and because of his creation he leads himself into self destruction. The Byronic hero is a large part of gothic literature, having many distinctive traits. One of the traits that a Byronic hero contributes is intelligence, and our main protagonist is filled with intelligence. On page 15 of Frankenstien Victor says, “You seek

This quote is told by Victor when he is at the start of telling his horrific story of his creation. Victor was filled with knowledge and had much ambition, but this was also the reason for his downfall. His intelligence and ambition is what pushed him to create the creature, thinking he would do something revolutionary for the world. Instead he was faced with the biggest mistake of his life that ruined his and other people's peace in their life. Another quote that talks about Victor's intelligence and ambition is stated in “Mary Shelley's Frankenstein” by Harold Bloom, in this book he says, “The young man who discovers how to piece together a man and reanimate the body with the spark of life is a sensitive through driven character. His greatest faults are his intellectual and scientific ambition to pierce the secrets of nature and his uncaring abandonment of his creation: after bringing his creature to life he flees from it in horror”(Bloom 22). This quote embodies the Byronic

Our protagonist Victor Frankenstien does many things to show his arrogance. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the creature says, “I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You would not call it murder if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands.?” This quote truly demonstrates Victor's arrogance because he made a creature with his own hands, but fled his creation the second it was finished. He left an unknowing monster out by itself just because he was scared of his looks. He left his creation to be miserable and cause misery for many people. So although Victor didn't mean for his creature to turn out to be a monster, he still abandoned him. So the creature blames Victor for the way that he is acting. Another quote that shows Victor's arrogance is in “Frankenstein: or, The New Prometheus” written by Harold Bloom. He says “The monster is at once more intellectual and more emotional than his maker, indeed he excels Frankenstein as much (and in the same ways). The greatest paradox, and most astonishing achievement, of Mary Shelley's novel is that the monster is more human than his creator”(Bloom 12). This quote demonstrates Victors arrogance because it shows that the so-called ”monster” had