Victor was part of a wealthy Swiss family who treated him as ““...an object of their love, not a participant in it; he is "their plaything and their idol.” Victor insists upon remembering "the best of all possible worlds" is the psychological defense of an only child (as he was for a long time) who maintains a love/hate relationship with his parents because he senses that they share an affection that in some way excludes him” (Claridge). This gave Victor the idea that people were somehow objects that you can give love to which he soon does with Elizabeth. “His mother tells him, "I have a pretty present for my Victor -- tomorrow he shall have it.” The child subsequently accepts Elizabeth as his "promised gift" and makes her his own possession.” (Claridge). Victor is going by ‘what he sees is what he should do’. This shows …show more content…
Although their stories are not focused on as much as the creature or Frankenstein’s, Shelly uses them throughout the novel to emphasis orphanage among a lot of the children and how it affects their whole life whether good or bad. Abandonment was a big rising action in Victor life which led to Victor’s thirst for knowledge and the effects of isolation. Victor leaves for Ingolstadt after his mother died from scarlet fever. During his trip he realises that “[His] life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances,” (Shelly 30). Frankenstein wasn’t used to having many friends or people around him but he wasn't used to not having at least his family around him. Because he was part of a wealthier family he was often secluded to the outside world and at the time he was comfortable with just knowing his family and Clarville, but his spirits rose when he realised that “[he] had often, when at home thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place, and had