Victor Frankenstein wasted no time creating the infamous monster figure, his ultimate experiment ‘I began the creation of a human being.'(53) Dr. Frankenstein violated the law of nature by experimenting with death and life. Not only did he play with the power of trying to be god, but also he created a creature with superhuman abilities. The monster itself is a product of his terrible creator as it represents social rejection and it should not be destroyed. To begin, we will come to the question, Is the monster or the creature human? To understand this we have to analyze the utter loneliness of the monster as well as his attempts to socialize himself. Victor Frankenstein created his monster out of death and nothingness for example, ‘It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.'(57) The mad scientist said that he would create a human being. But at the same time, he was saying that he had used a ‘lifeless thing’. Therefore, he used a …show more content…
The image creates an eerie feeling among the readers. The movements of the creature were not lifelike, they were mechanized to some extent. We don’t feel that it is a natural life. Victor views the monster as an object. It can be sensed that before giving the creature life, the lifeless body was acceptable to Victor. It was ‘dead’, so it was okay. But when he gained life the same ‘body’ became the point of hatred and disgust for him. He became sick seeing his monstrous creation that he brought to