Victor Role In Frankenstein

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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. We see Victor's …show more content…

Despite his conviction that he could have prevented Justine's execution, he abstained from any activity that could have prevented such an execution, partly because he was afraid that no one would believe him and partly out of cowardice. His impotence now weighs heavily on his shoulders as he thinks about the innocent person who died because of his creation. Even though he could act, he failed to do so. Now, anything that could be done would be futile and could not undo the damage already caused. In essence, he was making a grave mistake, and for the second time in a row, he produced monstrous results, which is why the phrase "the dead calmness of inaction and certainty" was coined. Whether something terrible will come from his actions does not just have a chance of happening. There is no doubt about it; he must live with it as a certainty. As long as he cannot hope for nothing wrong to happen, and if something terrible were to happen, he would be rendered inactive because he is simultaneously deprived of hope and fear. Although Victor was born as a passive observer, he is much more of a passive observer than someone actively engaged in claiming responsibility for his actions after the creation of the creature. As a result of this information, the reader could conclude that knowledge imprisons people, making Victor and the monster appear to be similar characters suffering …show more content…

As we can see from the picture above, this is an altogether different scene from what we read in the book, as we know that the monster is a violent creature. Still, it has a very high level of intellectual and cognitive ability. The monster is intelligent, which makes it even more evident how much knowledge he has about himself, the world around him, and how he appears to others. In this way, the work acquires a depth that the adaptations of the job do not possess when we see it as a whole. While all the monster's actions appear in the book based on reason, thought, and logic, the monster behaves irrationally in the