“I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of anger on his head, and avenge the deaths of William and Justine. ”(74) In Frankenstein, both Victor and the creature try to destroy each other, but the want for revenge affects them and other characters. Death, betrayal, and regret are all outcomes of the need for revenge. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley and adapted by Gris Grimly, Victor, the creature, and Elizabeth are all affected by revenge.
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
Victor had two loving parents that gave him everything he ever needed or wanted to fulfill his physiological and emotional needs. Since Victor did not do this for his monster, the monster would kill all of Victor’s family and friends that he loved which would bring destruction to Victor’s life. For the rest of his days, Victor would go on a search for his monster to destroy it or die trying. Unlike Victor, the monster was never loved because of the way he looked. He was left alone, even by his creator, and lived a miserable life always escaping people that would “attacked [him], until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons” (Shelley).
One of those themes is revenge. Gris Grimly does a fantastic job showcasing this theme through pictures in his modernized version of Frankenstein. You can see this revenge while looking at how the creature takes revenge on Victor. We can also see how Victor tries to take revenge on the creature. Lastly, you will see how revenge can affect others, even if they were not involved initially.
Frankenstein is unable to provide love and comfort toward the monster, which make him feel revengeful toward his master Fiend blames Frankenstein for all misery he faces as his creator deserts him. In Frankenstein Marry Shelley conveys that the feeling of abandonment compels him to seek revenge against his creator. To start with, Frankenstein justifies that the monster is sensitive, but suffering enforces the him to be violent. The statement is true when you learn the monster request to his creator When creature see a beautiful woman sleeping on straw. The fiend appeals "you must create a female for me, with home I can live in the interchange of those sympathies for necessary for
Do you ever want to get back at someone with revenge? Well, if that's the case, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley and modernized by Gris Grimly, showcases the theme of revenge. Revenge first starts in Volume 1, Chapter 4 after Victor made the creature and then abandons the creature after jetting off to his room and then to the courtyard. “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavoring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.” (42).
The monster is very angry with humans, especially his creator, for abandoning him and not accepting him so he decides to get revenge. For example, when he kills Victor Frankenstien’s younger brother. “Frankenstein! You belong to my enemy- to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge” (Shelley 105). Revenge is also seen throughout the novel, Destroyer.
In Frankenstein, Victor wants revenge on the monster so greatly that it becomes an obsession. Victor states, “Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death” (Shelley 152). Victor Frankenstein wants revenge against the monster because the monster was the cause of the deaths of Victor’s family and friends (152). He is threatening death on the monster and swearing revenge on him. This is the beginning when he wants vengeance on the monster, which then immediately turns into an obsession.
The Creatures’ need for revenge stems from being abandoned and being isolated. The Creature has grown to resent humanity and wants nothing but a companion to ease the pain of being alone. The Creature quench for revenge progresses quickly after he is forced to leave the cottagers whom he grew to love as a family but the feeling is not mutual. He tries to be kind by saving a young girl from drowning just to be attacked by what can be assumed to be her father. The man injures the Creature which angers him, and finally he comes to a conclusion about humanity:
An eye for an eye or the law of retaliation is the principle most people live their lives by. As Gandhi once stated, “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” (Gandhi). For the characters in Frankenstein, this concept is apparent as the main character, Victor, creates a monster and instantly abandons him which sets off the chain of events revolving around revenge. Throughout the novel, the creature and Victor engage in a recurring cycle of vengeance, but these acts of revenge are bittersweet as in the end it destroys both of them. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley reveals how revenge consumes and destroys those who surrender to it.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a cinematic adaptation of her classic novel, is a story about the creation of life and the consequences that arise from playing God. One of the prominent themes explored in the film is revenge, which is evident throughout the story in the actions and motivations of several characters. This essay will discuss the theme of revenge in the film, examining how it drives the plot and affects the main characters and how it speaks to more significant human tendencies and moral questions. The story follows Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but obsessive scientist who seeks to create life from non-living matter. He succeeds in his experiment, bringing a grotesque creature to life, but is horrified by its appearance and abandons
Mary Shelley shows the endless amount of revenge and that it is driven by pure hatred and rage. The monster was not created to be vengeful, he was kind hearted but when he was poorly treated by Victor and then by the Delacey family, he turned cold. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley displays the immorality and destructive effects that revenge can have through Frankenstein and his pursuit of the creature. Immediately after the monster had awoken, hatred thickened and would drive the plot to be all about revenge. The creature illustrates this hatred as he says to Victor, “Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view;
After some time, this caused the creature to become very lonely, thus he later became very vengeful and angry towards Victor for creating him and then abandoning him all in the same instance. He wanted Victor to feel the pain and loneliness he felt and in order to do so, he started killing the people that surrounded Victor and made him feel loved, starting with his little brother William. The monster’s finally killing was Victor’s one and only love, Elizabeth, and when she was gone, Victor became vengeful as well, wanting to kill the monster for all he had done. So he ventured out, using forensics to his advantage he followed the clues that the monster left behind purposely for Victor to find. After some time, a desperate Victor died on this treacherous voyage, the monster started to develop other emotions like guilt and sadness for what he had done.
After Frankenstein experiences the death of Elizabeth, he understands that he is the cause of all the deaths in his family and promises to seek revenge on his creation. All the guilt he has turns into anger and fuels his impulse for revenge on the monster. He very passionately and assuredly describes his anger when he says, “My revenge is of no moment to you... I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul,” (217) and promises to seek justice for what he believes is rightfully his. Frankenstein travels to the ends of the world to enact the revenge he thinks he deserves.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein uses the conflict between Victor and the creature, specifically their predatory relationship in their pursuit of revenge, to emphasize how revenge will consistently push or even exceed moral boundaries. The conflict between Victor and his creature is outlined in Frankenstein through the monster’s attempt to hurt Victor through the killing of William and Victor’s destruction of the creature’s future mate, representing how revenge often cultivates a normalization of immorality. Before William’s murder, the monster had been rejected by the DeLaceys and shot at for saving a young girl from drowning. As a result, the creature’s wish for revenge upon all
