In the book Frankenstein there was a lot of things that happened. I think that there was a lot of mistakes by people and overreactions that shouldn’t have been. In the book, Victor was selfish. How he also made a lot of bad decisions. Also, how the monster overreacted in the book.
In chapters 5-10 of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," the focus shifts to Victor Frankenstein's creation of his monster and the aftermath of its awakening. Victor becomes increasingly consumed by his work, neglecting his own health and relationships. When he finally brings his creation to life, its appearance horrifies him and immediately flees from it. The monster, left alone and confused, wanders through the countryside, experiencing rejection and fear from everyone it encounters.
Nature definitely was an important part which makes up Frankenstein’s thought process and what he enjoyed. Your view on Frankenstein’s selfish nature is a downfall of our scientist who doesn’t consider what would happen after he creates the monster. He has no consideration for the monster’s feelings and should of made an effort to connect with his friends and colleagues on what his intentions were for the experiment and the outcome he expected once it came to life. The human monster may not have even turned out so ugly if he would of consulted with others during the process of his experiment.
Frankenstein explores the complex relationship between a creator and his creation. Victor Frankenstein is a very intelligent man who was overtaken by the pursuit of knowledge. This curiosity, along with two years of tireless work, led him to construct a creature from dead body parts and electricity. Victor’s relentless pursuit of knowledge is a powerful symbol of the consequences that arise from pushing the boundaries of science. As a result, the creature and Victor both live lives reflective of these unintended consequences.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the author details how Victor Frankenstein gives life to an unnatural, monstrous being. Readers can interpret Victor Frankenstein as the monster in the novel through his cowardly, selfish, and impetuous actions. Notably, Frankenstein shows how much of a monster he is when he cowardly abandons his creation. At the first glance of his creation, Frankenstein runs away from his monster “[taking] refuge in the courtyard… where [he] remained for the rest of the night” (Shelley 36). By running away from the living being whom he created, Frankenstein is being a coward, which only adds to him being a monster.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a gothic novel that tells the story of scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and his obsession with creating human life. This leads him to creating a gruesome monster made of body-parts stolen from grave yards, whom upon discovering his hideousness, the monster seeks revenge against his creator, causing Victor to regret the creation of his monster for the rest of his life. Shelley uses the literary elements of personification, imagery, and similes to give a vivid sense and visualization of Victor Frankenstein’s thoughts and feelings as well as to allow us to delve deeper into the monster’s actions and emotions. Throughout the novel, Shelley uses personification of various forces and objects to reflect the effect in Victor’s actions.
Going through life, it is not people's eyes that are blind, but their hearts. People always want to disbelieve the things that are happening in front of them. In the story Frankenstien, by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, the main character, had this quest for knowledge that he wanted to succeed in. Doing this, he had created a monster that goes around terrorizing victims' lives. He became selfish and greedy for himself.
Victor Frankenstein is selfish. The novel portrays Victor as a selfish character who is only concerned about his own well-being. Frankenstein wanted to manipulate the power of life. He abandons his creation because of the creature’s appearance and also withholds information or lies about his creation. Due to Victor 's selfishness, readers feel sorry for his creation.
The book Frankenstein is written by Mary Shelley and was published in January 1818. While reading the story, I got a feel for what a monster and its traits are while also getting to see more about the characters themselves. I believe that multiple characters within the story showed characteristics of being a monster. Not just the actual monster itself but Victor Frankenstein as well. Victor Frankenstein had many selfish and evil actions that point to him being the true monster in this story.
What makes a good creator? A good creator is someone who doesn't abandon their creation. It’s someone who will love you no matter what you look like or go through. A good creator isn't selfish and puts their creation before themselves.
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, selfishness is a theme most prominent in the piece, and how it plagues and destroys both Frankenstein and everyone around him. Shelley describes the battles of selfishness in humans and how destructive it really can be through the narrator, Frankenstein. Shelley describes the scenes of Frankenstein in his own self-induced exile, his neglect, his loneliness, and his disgust. In multiple ways is selfishness portrayed through each and every one of the characters in the novel.
Rebecca McNutt once stated in her text Bittersweet a timeless quote: “Again we have the problem that whether you’re moral or not is a matter of whether it's cost-effective.” Humans mostly seem motivated by asking themselves a simple question, “If I do this will I get something from it?” If the answer is a yes, then many people will do what is being questioned. If it's no, we tend to leave it and carry on with our lives. The whole idea of selfishness within a novel can be used as a way to bring us to feel sympathy towards a character, or even to see them as evil.
Selfish Desires Selfishness has caused the downfall of countless characters throughout a multitude of literary works. This selfishness is also what usually precedes a character’s isolation due to the consequences of their actions. One example of this can be found in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein when Victor Frankenstein defies the natural order to accomplish his personal goals. Likewise, in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Mariner makes a fatal mistake of performing a selfish action without thinking of the consequences. These works use the character’s actions and the main characters to explore how selfish decisions leads to one’s own isolation and the destruction of those around them.
What is the point? Everyone has an erred of self-centeredness. It’s natural to take the world in from an internal perspective, but what happens when one’s perception of the outside world is deranged? Mary Shelley answers this question in depth in; Frankenstein.
Those causing the mistreatments were acting in fear. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein allows this fear to spread across the town and terrorize people. His concern was not on what may happen if things did not go the way he planned them. He was selfish in his eagerness to achieve something that was not accessible to mankind. In the novel, Victor states, “ His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
