Victor Frankenstein is a deeply troubled man who lost his mother at a young age, which left him with an obsession with life and death. He gave up his health, family and friends in order to study bringing people back to life and that consumed him. Even after his science professors encouraged him not to, he continued to pursue his search but his end result, the monster was not at all what he intended on creating and was appalled at his creation and spent the rest of his life hunting it down. Victor had a degree of innocence about him which was ripped away by the monster. Mary Shelley made the reader's question if ignorance is bliss, because if Victor had discontinued his studies on reanimating the dead then he would have never made the monster