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Victor's Loss Of Loneliness In Frankenstein

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How far is someone willing to go to feel a sense of belonging? Some people search their whole lives in hopes of one day finding such a rare thing as true companionship; whether it be a lover or just a friend. Yet, how far an individual is willing to pursue this longing for love is entirely unpredictable. As humans, naturally, we yearn for interaction with other humans. In Mary Shelley’s Monster’s case, his unfortunate appearance only deepens the resentment of others towards him. Despite his best efforts, the Monster is continuously rejected time and time again. With relentless attempts to persuade the cottagers and Victor of his innocence and kind manner, the Monster gives in to the stereotypical role of scary village creature who is out for …show more content…

He has always wanted to know why things are the way they are; simply accepting things as they were was not good enough. “I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the politics of various states, possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me…” (Victor 31). AS Victor grew older, his curiosity only grew alongside with him. Leaping into his more adult years, Victor began to study with M. Krempe and M. Waldman filling his brain with facts of historical philosophy and chemistry. “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation” (Victor 39). With his new found knowledge, Victor is eager to take the first step in a massive advancement of science for his generation of scientists. He will attempt to create life after death. He had engaged his heart and soul for two years in the pursuit of hoping to uncover the secret to life, until one day a light had shined down upon him revealing what he succeeded in discovering the generation of inanimate

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The most conspicuous display of intent for Victor is subsequent to hearing his professor's attempts to persuade into the study natural science; it is then he conceives an idea: “trending in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore the unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation … a new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.” In this passage, Victor demonstrates his ardity for command and control over another being. He strives for power unrivaled by any other, and intends to pursue such egomaniacal reflections. While Victor establishes that his intent and motivation for creation in claiming supreme gratitude from his product, Reb Saunders expresses an opposite motive and desired outcome. Explaining the purpose for raising his son in silence he says, “A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want for my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain.”

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He longs for a companion of any kind, but his malign actions drive him further from intimacy of any kind. His attempts in finding a friend are dispirited and ephemeral, like an exhausted toddler throwing a tantrum before falling asleep. Unlike Grendel, however, the monster demands from his creator, “ ‘It is true we shall be monsters, but off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another,’ ” (130). Feeling abandoned, the monster initially acts out, but recognizes his anger can be cured with company.

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Walking up and down the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the democratic corpse to which I had so miserably given life” (Chapter 5) demonstrates how Victor ran as soon as the creature he had created came to life, Victor freaked out the first time he laid eyes on the being he gave life to. The readers and Victor were the only ones that knew and could know about this. Victor could not tell anyone that he created a life that was capable of

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At the beginning of the novel, Victor is a curious, innocent, and happy individual. Victor is a curious person ever since he was a little boy. “Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember”(22). He has always wanted to learn

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Firstly, regarding Victor’s childhood, Victor grew up in a loving environment with his parents. Victor’s early ambitions began when he gained an early fascination for science. Victor saw his ambition as if science was his “heaven and earth” and with that Victor “desired to learn... it was the outward

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But, his father warns him of those studies, urging him to take up readings concerning modern science. However, Victor continues, and at 17 is sent to attend school in Instongaldt. Upon meeting his first professor, he is told that he had been “wasting his life” on “nonsense” and leaves his meeting with a new list of authors to study. However, the original spark for Victor’s self-indulgent flame comes in the form of M. Waldman, his second professor. He tells Victor that though alchemy, the field in which he studied, turned out to be a failure, a defining characteristic of a scientist is to put in the work and to lay the foundation for future projects.

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I am full of fears; I am an outcast in the world” (Shelley 125). The Monster is realizing that no human will ever want to be his friend because of his outward expression. This makes the reader start to regret the way they felt about him in the beginning. After the Monster has been shut down by everyone, he makes one final request: “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being”

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Loneliness Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, makes a strong emotional appeal of loneliness, rejection, and revenge. Throughout the novel, Mary Shelley used his characters to indicate the theme of loneliness. Resembling other works, such as The Ancient Mariner, Henry James: The Young Master, and Paradise Lost. In Coleridge's poem, his being is the last living soul on board his ship. Shelly's mariner, relating to Coleridge's mariner, experienced the desolation of being alone.

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an attempt at connection—a narrative woven by its three principal narrators that attempts to share their legacies, dreams, and destructive secrets. The novel begins with the sea captain Walton writing to his sister about his longing for a companion, a wish paralleled by the other collaborators of this tale. The whole narrative, therefore, is an effort to connect with others and alleviate loneliness and seclusion. It is fitting then, that this very notion of isolation is the greatest destructive force in the novel, as it facilitates and prompts monstrous behaviors. Emotional isolation from both family and society drives Frankenstein and his creation to dangerous and vengeful behaviors, which ultimately cause their

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By this time Victor was in bondage to his thoughts and impulse to create the being he had been hoping for. He is so bound with natural philosophy he feels almost as if it is his duty to do this.

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With the resources he learns, he began to reanimate life using death body parts, electricity and water. Victor was not really sure about his research, but he was already to preoccupy to stop. He was hoping to create a normal human; instead he end up with a repulsive monster. Frustrated of the result, he leaves the monstrous behind on its own, and went back to his life. The creature was left alone with no preparation or description about the real word he enter.

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At college, Victor was interested in science, especially with the idea of life, and made it his goal while studying to discover the secret to creating life. This he did, after a few years at college, though the results were not what he expected. Instead of a perfect

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Victor learns about modern science and quickly masters the professions and methods his professors have taught him at the university. Victor with his new abilities gets fascinated with the “secret of life” and this pursues him to actually create life, in a way no other man had ever imagined. After continuous failures Victor finally brings a “creature” more common referred as a

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