Victor and The creature are probably the biggest Dichomite in the book Frankenstein. In case you didn't know Victor is the creator of the creature and the creature is a ugly eight foot tall thing. After Victor created the creature it ran away without knowing really anything. He went
Luke Peters Sarah Khatry ENGL:1200 27 February 2023 Emotional Development in Frankenstein Throughout the book the monster develops becomes emotionally intelligent while Victor devolves emotionally and loses the intelligence that once made him a genius. Victor undoubtedly had scientific skill, being able to create life out of corpses, but it wasn't his scientific intellect that deteriorated, it was his emotional and logical intelect. In the prelude to the story we see him chasing the monster across ice, but it is clear that even if he catches the monster he is clearly physically outmatched. This is something the Victor at the start and middle of the story would never attempt.
The author altered the story by making the settings different but still making it like the original “Frankenstein”. In both the passages he uses “runaway technology” so in both he uses the same thing. On the other hand, he doesn’t have the same”monster”. In contrast, in “Frankenstein” he has already created the
“Frankenstein” and “Rebellious Robot” both talk about the creation of monsters that backfire. They both have the same theme and same similarities. Creating something you don’t understand is dangerous. They both have their similarities and differences. Both stories are about creating something we don't understand and they end up going rogue.
In the excerpt of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein decides to mess with life and death in order to help others. When he first creates it he wants it to worship him. By the end he wants it dead. In the story “The Rebellious Robot” the creator Dev uses his technology to help him with his chores. In Frankenstein and The Rebellious Robot the inventors are just trying to help themselves.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley there are many similar characteristics between Victor Frankenstein and the monster that he creates. Victor and his creation both let their emotions get in the way of their actions, act revengeful, are isolated from society, and are very intelligent. From the beginning, the lives of Victor and the monster are very similar. They both grow up without a strong role model figure, and are forced to quickly grow up. Since they both grew up in similar settings, they react similarly to different situations.
At first, Victor is horrified by his creation but eventually becomes more and more like it. With a desire to destroy each other both are left alone to come up with a plan of revenge since they took each other's most prized possessions. Victor Frankenstein and the Monster that he creates are alike in ways he didn’t expect them to be. For example, Victor creates the Monster to be like himself. Anger is a trait that Victor and the Monster gain because it is brought up in the society around them.
When I was a kid, the first thing that popped into my head whenever I think of Frankenstein was this gigantic monster with a green complexion and bolts on both sides of his head. This monster, I would say, definitely had an apparent impact in popular culture and was eventually associated with Halloween until this day. He was a popular character come Halloween time and kids would dress up as him with green face paint on their faces and combat boots with a little bit of platform, to give height, of course. Now, reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein this week gave me a full back story of how Frankenstein came to be and who he really is. When reading, I felt bad about how Victor reacted to seeing him because, I mean didn’t he construct him?
In the book, the story begins with a frame narrative; Captain Walton is writing to his sister about the story of Frankenstein (Shelley), while in Bride of Frankenstein, it’s revealed that Mary Shelley herself is telling the story to an audience (Whale, Bride of Frankenstein). When Victor created his monster, he was horrified by what he created and ran away in fear. Henry, in Frankenstein, was ecstatic and tried to help teach it commands and words (Whale, Frankenstein). In Bride of Frankenstein, Henry worked with Dr. Pretorius to create a mate for the monster (Whale, Bride of Frankenstein). Victor in the novel worked alone to create his monster, and he refuses to create the monster’s mate when requested by the monster (Shelley).
Victor Frankenstein, is at fault for the creature’s actions. Victor was looking for some honor and triumph, but when he accomplished his experiment, not only did it bring terror to Victor, but to the whole world. The monster never learned right from wrong and was never raised correctly, his first moment of life, all he experienced was the fear in Victor's emotion, and was abandoned right from the start. Victor selfishly isolated himself from society and ran away from his responsibilities which caused destruction to the people Victor cared for and loved deeply. The creature was known as a monster and was doomed due to his appearance.
His guilt made him flee from his family and separate himself from society. While on his expedition he ran into his creation which made him seem more monster than human. Frankenstein’s creation is represented as Victor’s more human side towards society and Victor himself.
Victor Frankenstein turns away from his responsibilities by ignoring the existence of his creation. Throughout the novel, Victor is constantly running away from the monster and not giving him attention, which resulted in the monsters change of personalities. For example, in page 71 the creation said, “All men hate the wretched; how must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.” This quote suggests that because of the ignorance of Victor the monster began to become evil and have the urge to seek
Victor does not handle his monster, or his fears, well. When Frankenstein first sees his monster, he immediately “escaped, [from the room the monster was in] and rushed down stairs. p50” As the monster is an externalization of Frankenstein’s fears, this escape, this inability to so much as look at the monster, can be interpreted as Frankenstein’s inability to acknowledge his fears and anxieties. Like with anxiety, denying the monster’s existence only causes him to grow more destructive.
Victor, and not his creature, is the one that should be labeled as the monster, because he is the one that embodies the characteristics of a monster. A phrase that explains why the creature is usually seen as the monster of this novel is the Frankenstein Complex. This phrase was made to describe judgments, opinions, and discriminations that are grounded in society’s fear of the unknown. Frankenstein’s creation is born innocent, yet Victor, and the society at large, label the creature before it can even form a judgment of itself. In the prophetic words of the seventeenth century Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man….
Victor knew that the monster was searching for him and could arrive at any time. Frankenstein created the monster and knows most of its skills and abilities. Even after she was killed Victor decided not to tell his
