How Does Victor Create Self Sacrifice In Frankenstein

“‘I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted’” (Shelley 112). In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster wanders through a village, admiring the beautiful cottages and vegetation previously unbeknownst to him. However, as he enters one of the houses, his disfigured appearance frightens the villagers in such horror that he resolves to avoid human interactions thereafter. Initially, the monster is brought to life when Victor Frankenstein engages in unruly experiments assembling decayed body parts with mysterious chemicals and sparks. Ignorant of the implications of his work, Victor creates a living creature that he himself regards with disgust and horror. Out of fear, Victor abandons

Despite exhibiting passionate love for Charlotte, Werther realizes his mistake. In fact, he admits to “‘disturb[ing] the peace of [Charlotte and her fiance's] home and sow[ing] distrust between [them]’” (Goethe). His previous selfish character has shifted to selflessness as he recognizes the disturbances he had created in their household. Specifically by utilizing the word “sow[ing]” to describe the distrust he once created, he insinuates that trust can be once again revived by unthreading, or undoing, what he had created. He intends to make peace through self-sacrifice. Specifically, when speaking to Charlotte, he declares deliberately, without any romantic passion, that he is “‘resolved to die’” (Goethe). He does not “think” he should die, but feels as though he is “resolved” to die, displaying his determination and purpose to make the situation right through his own self-sacrifice. Unlike the sacrificing characteristic exhibited by Werther, the monster diverts towards destruction. After acting on his impulse and killing the young boy he met with the same last name as the monster’s creator, the monster “‘gaze[s] on [his] victim, and [his] heart swell[s] with exultation and hellish triumph’” (Shelley 153). By juxtaposing “victim” and “exultation” as well as “hellish” and “triumph,” the monster paints himself as an unpleasant grotesque creature. His newly destructive character brings pain and conflict everywhere he goes. In fact, later in the novel, the monster kills Victor’s wife, and while pointing towards her corpse “a grin [is] on the face of the monster; he seem[s] to jeer” (Shelley 213). The fact that the monster is visibly displaying his enjoyment watching Victor suffer truly indicates the monster’s change of character from selfishness to ruin. Through his never-ending conquest of revenge he promises Victor, he ignores the desolation