Victor Frankenstein Morality

Victor Frankenstein: Morality and The Pursuit of Knowledge Victor Frankenstein has many original characteristics and themes to his life, but the two that describe him best are Morality and The Pursuit of Knowledge. Victor is a higher class boy who lives in the country that decides he wants to go to college at the university of Ingolstadt in Germany to study Chemistry. When he is off at college, he has a motive to bring back life to the dead. He works on frogs, dogs, and than the biggest project of them all, A human. He almost never leaves his lab and almost goes insane. His monster that he created gets loose. Everybody is scared of the monster and it has no idea what it is really doing at first. It starts to learn the common things

Victor Frankenstein spent his college life working on his so called project. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an intimate body” (Page 35). Frankenstein is a hard working man that spent all of his time to do something that everyone thought was impossible to do and did not know the consequences to the act. He did not think over what would happen if he did bring this human that he has recreated back to life and how it would react. Even his professor that he was losing it when he found out that Victor was doing this. “The professor stared. “Have you,” he said, ”really spent your time in studying such nonsense?” (pg 26) With the knowledge that the professor had, he thought that Victor was crazy, he thought that there was no way Victor could pull something like that off and change the world. Victor's love for chemistry has became his whole life and he did not think of the consequences it had with it. “Natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation” (page 29). He had forgotten about anything else and was so strongly focusing on his work that he even forget to write but to Elizabeth. Victor Frankenstein did turn out to be a very smart man, but he did not think hard enough when it came to things that humans should never have to discover or find out how to do, he had never thought about the consequences of his own