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The Role Of Victor The Creature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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The story of Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, is an extravagant and outstanding novel of the 1800’s. Frankenstein is a novel based in the late 18th century highlighting three male characters: Victor Frankenstein an enthusiastic and admiring scientist, an unnamed Creature of Victors making and Walton a captain managing a voyage to the Arctic who relayed the stories of Victor and the Creature to his sister. The relationship between the creature and Victor remains a controversial topic to this day- are they enemies, or is the Victor the Creature? The idea that two characters coexist within one individual is not a popular one, but, can be understood from a psychological viewpoint and a diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder. There is …show more content…

During, the time of Elizabeth’s illness Mrs. Frankenstein can hardly abandon her favorite child and continues to serve to her needs. As Elizabeth recovers Mrs. Frankenstein too fall ill however, she does not recover and to the family's dismay she passes away. At the time of Mrs. Frankenstein’s death, she wished for only one thing, for Victor and Elizabeth to be wed. Mrs. Frankenstein asks for this because it would be the “INSERT QUOTE1 HERE” ( only thing to console father quote). Victor and Elizabeth’s peculiar life events can only be used to explain Victors Submerged hostility for Elizabeth. Elizabeth was Victor’s cousin, sister, playmate, mother figure for Victor’s siblings and wife. Who was Elizabeth to Victor? All of these contradicting titles for Elizabeth put Victor in a hard place, and begins his disinterest and frustration with Elizabeth. However, the main event that pushes Victors frustration to submerged hostility was the death of Mrs. Frankenstein. Victor believed that Elizabeth was to be blamed for his mother’s death, if Elizabeth was not ill then his mother would not have attended to her and she would have not fell ill as well. Justine came to the Frankenstein home as a child just a few years after Elizabeth. At Justine’s arrival Mrs.Frankenstein

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He led her to an underserved death, and has the audacity to claim he feels more miserable than anybody else. He only thinks about his own feelings and not how other people may be experiencing worse, like for example, Justine. Another instance of this circumstance is when he decides not to tell Elizabeth, his future-wife, about the creature’s words, “I’ll be with you on your wedding night.” In the moment that Elizabeth is murdered by the creature after their marriage, Victor thinks, “Suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. The whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fiber was suspended.”

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Even though Victor pushed his family away, he still wanted them in his life. Especially his mother since he was trying to bring people back to life. Victor desired a family with Elizabeth because he loved her and wanted to marry her. Eventually, he did end up marrying her for a short amount of time. The monster desired a family.

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Later killing Elizabeth Victor’s new wife, For example, when the monster kills Elizabeth, Victor’s new wife, it is portrayed as: “A grin was on the face of the monster, he seemed to jeer as with his fiendish finger. He pointed towards the corpse of my wife. ”(Shelly 190). The monster's actions are at first considered a betrayal because Victor never expected for his creation to hurt him through other people. Even later in the story, Frankenstein does not expect the monster to go after Elizabeth, instead he believes the monster only wants him.

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Victor plays the role of brother, son, husband, cousin and creator throughout Frankenstein, however, his role of brother/ husband to Elizabeth is significant. His connection to Elizabeth begins when Elizabeth

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In the history of Frankenstein's monster, he was described as a man eight feet tall with a hideous creature, a translucent yellowish skin that was pulled so taut that it barely disguised the workings of the arteries and muscles beneath it, glowing watery eyes, flowing black hair, black lips, and prominent white teeth that were encircling his body. It is clear from the story's beginning that the death of Frankenstein's mother affected the family dynamic because Frankenstein's mother was the symbol that depicted Victor's desire and lust regarding the maternal features of Frankenstein. His desire and passion could not be fulfilled after her death. A mother plays a vital role in a child's upbringing, and she needs to play that role.

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The novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley depicts certain ideas that can not be described or written within novels. For example, the telling of the story between three different narrators can teach the reader about putting together “pieces of a puzzle” in order to understand the plot of the story. The three narrators in Frankenstein are Victor, Walton, and the Creature, all with very distinct personalities and character traits. Of these storytellers, Victor could possibly be debated as the most extraordinary. The qualities that make Victor pictured as this unique character, that the fact that he is a dynamic character, and that he is an unreliable narrator.

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Elizabeth Lavenza is the orphan child taken in by the Frankenstein family, who was lovingly raised with Victor Frankenstein; she later becomes Victor's wife and is killed by the monster on their honeymoon. Elizabeth was the daughter of a Milanese nobleman and a German mother. She was found living with a poor family near Lake Como. She was granted land, where she and Victor honeymooned, around the time she was getting married. Elizabeth is the one who keeps the family together after Caroline dies.

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When people hear the word “monster”, most people imagine a massive, horrid, and grotesque figure that haunts people. While pondering what a monster is, mankind thinks of the outward appearance. Seldom do people think of man’s internal qualities as being barbaric or gruesome. Authors allow readers to create their own images of these terrifying beings. Frankenstein is a thought-provoking novel that empowers readers to have their own opinions about who the actual monster is and what it looks like.

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Once noted, the parallels between Frankenstein’s fears and desires and the reality the monster experiences are many. Now that Victor is in university, he no longer has family and friends to fall back upon in the unknown territory of his university. Frankenstein voices is that “[he] believed [himself] totally unfitted for the company of strangers,” irrational as it may be, and believes himself solely dependent on his family and childhood friend for companionship. Without the love guaranteed to him by his family, Victor believes he is unfit to make companions by himself and destined to a life of loneliness. He places much importance on the fact that his father and Elizabeth love him and are concerned with his well-being.

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Are Victor and The Monster Likeable Victor has created a monster, an “abhorred devil” who torments him throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Indeed, the creature commits several horrid acts, which drives Frankenstein to pursue him into the Arctic. Yet the creature does not inspire the same fear or revulsion in the reader; instead he gathers sympathy. While Frankenstein may beg to differ, the reader connects with the monster because he is isolated from the world and surprisingly has a gentle heart.

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After reading several books, he became curious to test new experiments. This part of his life foreshadows that Frankenstein is going to use electrical power in his future experiments, and that it will lead to a major creation. In addition, Victor dreams of kissing Elizabeth, but she becomes “livid with the hue of death” (35). This foreshadows that Elizabeth will die on her wedding night. Furthermore, when Frankenstein meets the creature in Chamounix, the creature says, “I am your creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather a fallen angel” (69).

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The fictional horror novel of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is driven by the accentuation of humanity’s flaws. Even at the very mention of her work an archetypal monster fills one’s imagination, coupled with visions of a crazed scientist to boot. Opening her novel with Robert Walton, the conduit of the story, he also serves as a character to parallel the protagonist’s in many ways. As the ‘protagonist’ of the story, Victor Frankenstein, takes on the mantle of the deluded scientist, his nameless creation becomes the embodiment of a truly abandoned child – one left to fend for itself against the harsh reality posed by society. On the other hand, Walton also serves as a foil to Victor – he is not compulsive enough to risk what would be almost

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Elizabeth believes in Justine’s innocence and aware that Victor feels guilty about her execution while claiming to know the real murderer. Elizabeth does not understand Victor strange behavior or ever imagine him creating a monster that kills her brother and friend. “The real mystery in Frankenstein then has little to do with the mysteries of the gothic machinery. Rather, it has to do with the problem of where the evil came from in the first place” ("Frankenstein" and the Tradition of Realism). The night Frankenstein finishes his creation, it looks nothing like what he wanted.

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Shelley describes the morning after Frankenstein creates the monster and runs away- "Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned, and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt…”. This dreary scene adequately depicts Victor’s miserable, downcast feeling toward the ugly monster he has just created. Shelley also uses the imagery element to bring into view Frankenstein’s painful emotions over the result of his creation. Immediately following the verdict of Justine’s death, a deep feeling of remorse washes over Frankenstein. "The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove.

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Because of this, Elizabeth had to play all feminine roles towards Victor: mother figure, sister, and wife. While Elizabeth becomes like a mother, Victor had already formed a friendly bond with her. Victor describes Elizabeth as “gentile and affectionate” (20), motherly characteristics, but Victor would never be able to see Elizabeth as a mother. Elizabeth and Victor had grown up together since the age of four. She was the only one who could make him forget his troubles, and he was the only one who could console her after the death of William and Justine.

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