How Does Levine Have A Positive Impact On Frankenstein

Frankenstein starts off detailing the life of Victor Frankenstein who had an obsession with the creation of life. Victor went to a university where he met his chemistry professor Waldeman. Through the teachings of Professor Waldeman, Victor became very ambitious and pursued his research on human life. Victor spent months molding a creature out of old body parts of dead people. After many months of working on his creature, he finally brought this creature to life. Victor was unhappy with his creature and decided to have him wonder off in the village. Frankenstein was the most hideous creature that everyone had ever seen. Through his touring of the village, everyone shunned Frankenstein. Frankenstein began to deem himself ugly because

For making his creation made certain individuals who meant a lot to him got murdered by the monster. The author writes that the novel is about attention and not the background even when it travels to all these unusual destinations. Frankenstein failed in his responsibility to his creation. At the end Levine writes that the monster has final peace in his destruction. As Levine stated, every death in the novel is family related, whether literally or symbolically. Once the monster kills Frankenstein's family members, it creates an extremely negative impact on Victor's life that it is hard for him to be happy in the world. When Clerval dies, for instance, we see that Victor becomes mentally and physically ill almost to the point of death, just because he considered Clerval as part of his

The article mentioned that Frankenstein was punished for his ambition. By saying “greatness of ambition, and fear and distrust of those who act on such ambition”. He said that because Frankenstein remove his self from the outside world in order to research and make his creature but it backfired when he didn’t accept what he made. This portrayed that Frankenstein failed in his responsibility of his creation. Mr. Levine also discusses both gothic and realistic elements in Frankenstein. Such as Frankenstein is better to be interpreted as gothic fiction because he mention it’s an ambivalence of evil and goodness inside human