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The Motif Of Love In Frankenstein By Mary Shelly

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Love is an unselffish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelly the creature is not shown love which leads to emotions like unhappiness, hatred, and destruction. Emotion is the charactristic of romanticim which contributes to the overall motif of love is a necessity for happiness. Seeing that there was no hope in the goodness of humanity, the creature realizes that he needs an equally ugly female companion to love. He explains to victor “I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.” Even though the creature is hideous, he is willing to show kindness towards another being like him. Not only is the creature rejected …show more content…

They were both orphans and did not have a loving family. When Caroline’s father died, she no longer had a support system or someone to look up too. Alphonso came into her life and cherished her. It stated “she came like a protecting spirit to the poor; who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.” Two years of protecting Caroline, Alphonso made her his wife. The difference between the ages united them closer in bonds of devoted affection. They eventually had a child, Victor, who was their pride and joy. Although they were very proud of their baby boy they wanted him to have a playmate. While on vacation in Italy, Caroline found a peasant family with five children. One out of the bunch stood out to her. It was a little girl Elizabeth, who seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Caroline adopted her and raised her up to a young lady. When Elizabeth became older Caroline explained to her that she wanted Elizabeth and Victor to become more than cousins. Caroline wanted them to marry. After they married Elizabeth worried that victor might not love her anymore. She says “but it is your happiness I desire as well as my own, when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it was the dictate of your own.” Because all of the misfortunes,

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Victor really isn't very happy after his dad left, he seems him as if he is the bad guy. Like his dad left, because he didn't want to be around them anymore and didn't care about them at all. Which isn't the case, Victor's dad really does love him and his family he just felt like he needed to get away and didn't have the heart to come back. Later in the movie his dad dies, Victor and Thomas went to

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When Justine’s mother and 3 siblings died, Caroline Frankenstein took poor Justine under her wing and provided the motherly love and affection Justine craved. After Caroline’s death, Justine was just as heartbroken as Victor was, for Caroline was a mother to them both. The Frankenstein household has many tragedies stored in its eaves. Hopefully, the future holds joy rather than sorrow. One of the many traits that set Justine above Victor is her integrity.

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Companionship is when a person discovers themselves and can show the best from inside of them. Most times a person learns to see the positive in everyday life activities and have a purpose. A person can become happy and forget about many troubles such as stress, anxiety, or depression. Also, that person has someone to talk to if they are going through a rough time even if they do not want to affect the other person with their troubles. More likely that person is going to appreciate others and events that occurs around them.

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Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein is a frame narrative of the life of Victor Frankenstein recorded by Robert Walton. It is circled around his creation of a monster that suffered a lonely life and wanted revenge for being created. In Frankenstein, Shelley portrays many big ideas but, one that continues to show importance is the idea of Human Needs and Desires. so, in the novel Mary Shelley presents the idea that all creatures have a basic need for friendship and love.

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Though he starts with the best intentions, those intentions slowly slip from his grasp. As he slips further and further into isolation, that isolation is going to destroy himself and everything he ever cared about. Victor brings the isolation he experiences onto himself. Victor has two of the most loving and caring parents. Because of the loving and care he received from his parents, Alphonse Frankenstein and Caroline Beaufort, Victor found himself unable to function around a new group of people when he got to the university.

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He would move all over Italy, However after his aunt's death they would adopt Elizebeth, his cousin. After a few years, Victor would attend Ingolstadt where he would begin his education to be a scientist, possibly because of his mother who died of scarlet fever. After he studies chemical processes and the decay of living things, he gains knowledge about the creation of life and death. So he begins the process to give life to a creature that he soon considers an abomination and does not even give him a name. Victor states this when he says, “But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust has filled my heart.”

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Victor leaves his family at the age of seventeen to attend the University at Ingolstadt. Before Victor leaves for school, Elizabeth catches the scarlet fever and while Caroline was taking care of her, she catches the illness as well. On Caroline’s deathbed, she pleads for he and Elizabeth to get married. “ She died calmly and her countenance expressed affection even in death.” (Shelley Chapter 3 pg 53)

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Would you hurt or abandon a baby? In the fictional novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley the main character Victor Frankenstein believes that he can bring life to a body he makes from human parts. He does successfully create this creature but ends up being terrified and disgusted by it so he runs and abandons it. The creature then departs in solitude and later sets out for revenge against Victor for abandoning him. Shelley conveys the creature as a child learning about life using several different techniques in order for the audience to feel sympathy towards it.

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„I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me; whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend” (Shelley 163-164). This is the wish of the scientist Robert Walton whose letters start Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Unlike the first thoughts coming to mind when hearing the title, friendship is one of the main topics in the story and the wish Walton expresses in the beginning stands for the desires of all the main characters. Not only Walton feels to be in need of companionship, the central character Victor Frankenstein does so too and even the Creature he brings into being expresses its strong wish to belong to someone.

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He is aware of his otherness and knows that he is “shut out from intercourse” (84) with the people he holds so dear. It can be argued that this is the point where the creature’s humanity is the strongest throughout the course of story. He has a basic understanding of human societies, he speaks and reads their language, shows compassion and, most importantly, seeks their company and friendship. In his knowledge that social belonging is the missing component to his own happiness, he confronts the people he secretly observed only to, once again, be met with fear and anger (94-95). He comes to realise that he

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Passion and Destruction As W. Somerset Maugham once said, “Passion doesn’t count the cost... Passion is destructive.” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein leaves Geneva, his home town in the pursuit of knowledge, ding so he created a creature. Frankenstein gets frightened after the created the creature, so he leaves the creature in fear, only when he returns the creature is no longer there.

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When he was just a boy, he met Henry Clerval and they became best friends. “I was indifferent, therefore, to my schoolfellows in general; but I united myself in the bonds of the closest friendship to one among them.” They were friends until the creature killed Henry. Victor also had Elizabeth, his life partner. She lived a short life, due to the fact the creature killed her on the night of Victor and her wedding.

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In Mary Shelley’s iconic gothic novel, Frankenstein, Romantic themes are strongly represented in order to propagandize Romanticism over the elements of knowledge and the Enlightenment. In her novel, Shelley uses gothic nature settings to foreshadow dark events that are about to happen in the novel. She also uses nature to intensify the effect that is brought during significant scenes, a strong example being, when Victor Frankenstein’s monster approaches him after a long period of time. Nature and its use to influence mood is one of the most paramount themes of both Frankenstein and Romanticism.

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Rejection by humanity causes the creature to suffer from the mental and physical torture while the creature hopes to get acceptance from the

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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.

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