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Victor Frankenstein Corruption Quotes

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Although some characters are ultimately immune to corruption, most characters fall victim to the temptations of power, having to face the consequences later on or causing others to face the devastating consequences. Today's society is crippled with stories of corruption that demonstrate the consequences of greed. A recent example of this was in Pakistan with former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan has been accused of political corruption which he denied and pleaded not guilty. His corruption has been seen frequently with “Over 100 corruption cases registered against Mr Khan since he left office” (Venema & Davies). The case of corruption that the article showcases is his receiving land bribes in exchange for political favors. Despite the allegations, …show more content…

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, the main character Victor Frankenstein shows an example of a person who has to face the consequences of their greed. Victor tries to play God and manipulate life by creating the creature which showcases his greed. He creates the creature in a lab but faces issues accepting his creation (Shelly 45-46). Victor becomes afraid of his creature with him imagining that the creature “seized [him]” in a dream and begs to be saved from his evil creation (49). Due to his fear, he ultimately abandons his creation to fend for itself in the world (46). Victor’s abandonment causes him to have to face the consequences of his greed for creating life, for after he abandons the creature bad things start to happen to him. An example of this is the death of William, Victor’s younger brother. The creature “grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead” (134). The creature uses his strength to harm people Victor loved, forcing Victor to have to face the consequences of his corruption and belief that he could defy God and create a new race. The creature continues with his path and murders Victor’s long-time friend Henry Clerval (171). This causes Victor to go home to reconnect with his future wife Elizabeth. But on the night of their wedding, he murders Elizabeth leaving Victor alone having to face the consequences of his murderous creation (189). Victor has to face mental consequences from his creation such as grief. His grief ultimately drives him to desire revenge, in the form of murdering the creature. Victor makes it his life’s mission to seek his revenge and this can be shown by Victor pursuing “him for many months'' (196). Victor’s search results in him ending up in the Arctic with a crew aboard the boat. Victor never gets to seek his revenge for he dies

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Victor displays moral conscience when the creature kills William and Justine is convicted of killing William. Victor is tortured by the knowledge that the creature killed his family. He understands that his scientific “curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death” (Shelley 49) of two of his most cherished family members. Victor realizes that creating the creature has only caused destruction and despondency.

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Due to Victor's convenience of getting sick after major events in his life, he is unable to face the consequences of them and act accordingly due to the fact that he is unable to attend to them due to his wellbeing. When Victor's wife; Elizabeth, is killed by his creation, it had “...a grin was on [his] face” and “...seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife. ”(Shelly 197). Due to Victor never taking the responsibility of creating the monster due to his sickness, he was unable to raise and monitor the actions it had. Due to his lack of responsibility and the consequence of him becoming ill, it led him to face the karma of his dead wife, and more of his loved ones.

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In the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelly, Victor Frankenstein shows obsession and monstrous behavior. He shows obsession when he makes the monster. Victor shows monstrous behavior once he creates the monster. Victor then shows more obsession when he dedicates his life to killing the monster. He exhibits monstrous qualities through his reckless pursuit of knowledge, his irresponsibility towards his creation, and his selfishness, which leads to the suffering of those around him.

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Victor doesn’t see the line that should’ve never been crossed, he watches as the people he loves die. Victor spent two years creating his best creation yet, ensuing it with life. But, when his creature finally arose, he fled. He fled

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The creature wants to take revenge on Victor for abandoning him and causes Victor grief by killing the people he cares about. When the creature kills, Victor feels responsible and guilty of the murders. He continually breaks down with each death by “his” hands, which makes him go mad. The task of creating a monster turned Victor into a monster

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Victor has abandoned him, ignored his requests, and even plotted his murder. The creature finally realizes that Victor has “proved himself unworthy of his condescension” after being treated horribly for quite some time. The creature after all this time, finally realized that he was not going to gain acceptance from his creator, Victor. The creature, realizing that he would never acquire his creator’s affection, turned to violence and vengeance as his reason for life. The creature even talks of “having power” in which to overthrow Victor.

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Once Victor made this discovery, he became ambitious and tried to actually follow through with reviving the dead and succeeded in doing so. Out of this discovery, Victor ends up creating a creature with sentience and intelligence. Unfortunately, the creature grows a hatred toward his creator after various events throughout the course of the story. As a result, the creature becomes antagonistic and ruins Victor’s life by ruining his marriage and killing his loved ones. When Victor loses everything, he tries to avenge his loved ones and goes on a long journey to track down the creature but it costs him his health and he eventually dies in the process.

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The creature's way of relieving his anger was by killing Victor's most loved ones. Victor's one true love was Elizabeth, after she died he truly realized all the harm and destruction the creature had caused in his life. He feels the only way to have proper justice served is by finding and killing the creature, “The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew that not my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend”(205). Although Victor is the true monster some sympathy should be served when it comes to the amount of loss he suffered. Him and the creature grew up complete opposites, Victor loved and cared for and the creature abandoned and lonely.

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Victor, who is terrified of what he has created, abandons his creation leaving it to “grow up” by itself. With the feelings of abandonment, the creature decides to get revenge throughout the entire novel and eventually leaves only Ernest, Victor

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Contemplating suicide, Victor realizes that his life has become empty. The void that only family and love could have filled is widened even more. His chances for happiness are dead; everything he has ever loved is vanished. The guilt Victor feels is uncomparable; the creature he made became a cold blooded killer. In a sense, one can argue that Victor is responsible and maybe, if he hadn't made the creature in his lab that gloomy day, he could have been happy.

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The only responsibility Victor had left was to nurture the creature he made, but instead, he abandoned him. The creature’s actions in return are parallel to what he told Victor. '' If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear. (121).” Another instance in which Victor shirks responsibility is earlier in the story, when Justine, a family friend, is framed for the death of William, though it was the creature who killed him.

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By now, the two resent each other, and over the next few months, play what feels like a cruel game of tag, the monster almost taunting Victor, as if he is making fun of how he couldn’t save the ones he loves. In this way, they are both somewhat estranged, their only obsession being each other. In addition, by the time Victor has started chasing the monster in order to seek revenge, he is no longer himself, endlessly tortured by his grief and regrets. His only purpose is to find and destroy his creation no matter what.

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Finally, Victor shatters his life when he ultimately causes his own death. As a result of his mind being consumed with grief and revenge, he becomes morose, melancholy, and eventually lifeless. Victor allows the monster to rummage his head, and he permits his creation to drive him crazy; consequently, he slowly kills

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The creature was left to find his own way in a world that never showed him any love or kindness, which ultimately caused him to lash out at Victor, kill his brother, and frame Justine with the murder. Victor’s ambition sets this chain of lethal events into motion making him responsible for the fatal consequences. Victor and his monster both prove to be complex characters with flaws that cause destruction. The full-circle moment of the monster's grief once Victor dies helps resonate with the humanity of

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In reality, he is disgusted by the sight of his creation so he abandons it leaving it all alone in the world without any guidance and runs away to the next room. Victor himself suffered from being a social outcast and now he bestowed the same feeling onto the creature by abandoning him. By treating the creature as an outcast, “he will become wicked … divide him, a social being, from society, and you impose upon him the irresistible obligations—malevolence and selfishness” (Caldwell). Not only is Victor selfish for abandoning his creature but he is shallow as well. Instead of realizing that he achieved his goal of bringing life to an inanimate body he runs way because of how hideous it is.

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