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Relationships In Frankenstein

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The myth of Prometheus, entails a tragic story of how Prometheus stole a creation from the gods to give to mankind, and was ultimately sentenced to eternal torture. Prometheus hates himself for the decision he made, but mankind loves him for it. Similarly, in the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Victor despises and regrets the creation of his monster, while all the monster longs for is his master's love and acceptance. In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor's relationship with the monster is complex because the monster wants compassion, and hates Victor for not giving it to him. Whilst on the other hand, Victor rejects his monster and wishes he never existed; creating a love/hate relationship between the two. After his family’s loss …show more content…

The creature goes on to further explain himself, as he is “alone”(Page 105). He alludes to himself as, “Thy Adam”(Page 105). A reference to the bible and the beginning of the earth. When Adam was the first and only one on earth, he was created with no companionship and no purpose. The creature can relate to this, as he was created and shunned; with nowhere left to go and no one to turn too. He continues on describing he is really the, “Fallen angel”(Page 105) in this allusion. Victor interferes with nature and tries to play the role of god. As a result, the creature instead turns into the fallen angel or satan. Victor tries to fix this disaster he created by cutting corners and in the process only hurts him and his family more. Instead of giving the monster what he desires, Victor tries to get rid of him as he thinks the monster's mere existence is his greatest problem. “You have made me wretched beyond expression. You have left me no power”(Page 106). Victor's perspective is one sided, as he thinks the creature's existence is responsible for all of his problems. While the monster was never given a chance and was hated from the moment he was

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This causes Victor to go home to reconnect with his future wife Elizabeth. But on the night of their wedding, he murders Elizabeth leaving Victor alone having to face the consequences of his murderous creation (189). Victor has to face mental consequences from his creation such as grief. His grief ultimately drives him to desire revenge, in the form of murdering the creature. Victor makes it his life’s mission to seek his revenge and this can be shown by Victor pursuing “him for many months'' (196).

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This is when the monster set out in vengeance to make Victor as alone as he was by targeting Victor’s loved ones. By seeing the creature as a monster, it became

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The creature wants to take revenge on Victor for abandoning him and causes Victor grief by killing the people he cares about. When the creature kills, Victor feels responsible and guilty of the murders. He continually breaks down with each death by “his” hands, which makes him go mad. The task of creating a monster turned Victor into a monster

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However, it is Victor that is the bigger monster in the book. He shows unparalleled selfishness and hostility towards the creature, and is also the initiator of all the subsequent events that occur after he creates it. Even when he first creates the creature, Victor displays hostility towards the creature. He immediately abandons it after seeing its appearance, and judges it based solely on it’s looks. “But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

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From this place of understanding, the monster meets this reaction in an extremely calm way stating how he “expected this reaction” (Shelley 72). He begins to speak to Victor by relating his situation to Creation saying: “remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed” (Shelley 72). In this statement, the creature is explaining to Victor why he has become a “monster”. He is saying how because he is Victor’s creation, Victor is God and he should be like Adam. He is also implying that because Victor is like God, he has a responsibility to provide and care for the monster.

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Victor's fear of being known as the creator of the creature, and the creature killing his family made him more and more isolated from the world just like the creature was. Victor even said “Revenge kept me alive" (pg149) similar to the creature's “insatiable thirst for vengeance”(pg 164) which kept him alive. Victor and the monster both had a similar desire for a loving family, and neither one could have it. Victor was given a woman to marry, his mother said “I have a pretty present for my Victor - tomorrow he shall have it” (pg 18) talking about Elizabeth. The creature wanted to be given a woman to be with just as Victor had.

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Throughout the book, Victor regrets creating the monster, as it is an image of all his failures, but what he doesn’t realize is that the Creature turns out

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The fact that Victor sees the creature as such a vile thing shows us that Victor doesn’t have any respect whatsoever for it. The creature states that he was ‘dependent on none and related to none’ which also

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Victor denied the monster it’s power by not allowing it to have what it asked for. This refusal caused the monster declare it’s dominance through threatening Victor to do as it says or he will be punished. After Victor refuses to allow his creation to take control, it goes mayhem and reacts with hatred. The creature tried to gain it’s power by deteriorating Victor’s life killing many of the friends and loved ones close to Victor. This pulls the final straw for Victor, he attempted to hunt the monster down and destroy it before it could hurt anyone else.

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From the moment he is created, the creature knows he is not wanted by Victor. Shelly writes, “Unable to endure the aspect of the being

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Victor ran from the monster never to look back but little did he know the monster had thoughts and feelings of his own. The monster “grew up” on his own and felt abandoned by his creator. He was in misery and felt worthless like no one or no human would ever love him because of the way he looked. " Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?”

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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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He starts his own plan to for revenge against the creature, but this makes him just as beastly as the monster. Victor makes it his life goal, to make the monster pay in any way he can. He wants him to feel lonely and isolated forever. The beast takes a lot out on Victor and makes him feel exactly the way he feels

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Victor selfishly creates the Creature to gain prestige, pretentiously claiming himself as a human god when he succeeds and saying it was for the sake of humanity. In reality, he creates a grotesque being and abandons it the moment his illusions shatter, making the creature a victim because he denies the responsibility of raising it causing hardships for it. Victor also believes the creature is a reprobative individual since it kills his brother and foists Justine’s execution, thus he acts inimical towards it throughout the whole novel as he invectively exclaims, “Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes” (93).

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein examines how the presence of a mother, negatively or positively, affects the development of a child. Victor’s mother, Caroline Frankenstein, dies while Victor is still a young man (he is about 17 years old), breaking their relationship between mother and son. Because Victor loses his bond with his mother, he is unable to act as a mother would when he creates his creature. Caroline Frankenstein’s absence in Victor’s life creates a disunion between the mother and child bond, which is evident in Victor’s creation and his fragmented relationship with the creature. Caroline Frankenstein, Victor’s mother, portrayed a traditional mother in the Frankenstein household, until her death.

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