The Role Of The Monster In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Victor Frankenstein is the main character in this novel written by Mary Shelley- He grows up in Geneva, Switzerland with his adopted sister, mom and dad. Victor is during his youth very interested in ancient and outdated alchemists. Even though his dad constantly reminds him to quit that interest he retains to explore this. His insistent interest later on leads him to the University of Ingolstadt, where Victor gets to know new thoughts and ideas encountering science. Victor learns about modern science and quickly masters the professions and methods his professors have taught him at the university. Victor with his new abilities gets fascinated with the “secret of life” and this pursues him to actually create life, in a way no other man had ever imagined. After continuous failures Victor finally brings a “creature” more common referred as a …show more content…

After being abandoned by Frankenstein the monster explores the society and tries to integrate into it. The people do not gladly welcome the monster but meet the monster in fright after its appearance. The monster realizes the terrifying reactions after looking itself in the mirror old body parts and strange chemicals made it look awful. Its gentle and kind nature does not get any attention and the monster blames its creator for that. The monster´s solitude results in its bad behavior, especially directed against Frankenstein. The creation of Frankenstein shows that it is not purely evil by many examples; it saves a girl from drowning and the fact that it wants friendship and has feelings explains the similarity with a human. Although its good character it gets treated with only disgust and beatings. The monster ends up in loneliness and the death of Victor Frankenstein affects the monster in both joy and sadness; Frankenstein caused it really much suffering but he was the only person whom had any sort relationship with