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The Real Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Victor Frankenstein attended the university of Ingolstadt where he's a star pupil of chemistry and natural philosophy. He was very interested in learning with reading the genius books and hearing the amazing lectures. Victor was engaged in discovering the unknown and creating. However, Victor was always continually wanting to research further than others have done. Victor’s creation began when the structure of the human frame caught his attention. To show, “ My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I was surprised, that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret” ( Shelly 18). …show more content…

Moving forward, Victor wondered whether to make this “ experiment” with his characteristic or make him a brand new person. To illustrate, “ I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organisation” (Shelly 18). In addition, Victor created the monster with rare items. To show, “I pursued nature to her hiding-places. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?....I collected bones from charnel houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame…...The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation ( Shelly 20). As seen, Frankenstein created his creature from various items and worked day and night to finally successfully complete his living

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