Victor's Responsibility In Frankenstein Essay

Throughout ‘Frankenstein’, we discover that Shelley presents Victors responsibility as flawed, We see him as childish and unable to accept his failures and mistakes. Rarley does he accept the “demonical corpse” who is “more hideous than belongs to humanity”, as his creation. Rather than dealing with the conequences and raising the monster, as his father and god. He abanondens it into society. We Can look back into Victors childhood to see where he gained his original morals, and where the drive for the creation of the monster was. During his younger years, Victor had discorved the work of ‘Cornelis Agrippa’, A german polymath, with his main studies in Philophy and Science. Although Victors father disapproved of his work liking it to “sad

The morals Victors parents bestowed upon him show Victor that he should cherish all life, and could be a spur behind creating the monster, just to bring more life into the world. The presence of his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza, the daughter of a nobleman and a German Mother. Victor realizes her poor past, living with a poverty-stricken family. Immediately takes his pride and loves Elizabeth as she is “mine to protect, love, and cherish”, Victor thinks as Elizabeth as his, almost like a teddy, which can be emotional support for younger ones. His selfishness is unable to see the value in people as individuials, which foreshadows his later problems, but he sees his responsibility in protecting Elizabeth. All of these emotions could have kept Victor going throughout his younger years and while he was studying, and engineering the monster. I believe that without the drive of Elizabeth, Victor would have crumbed

Frankenstein already knows that adverturing into the depths of death is immoral,”Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through and pour a torrent of light into our dark world”, his egotistical self begins to hunt for fame and answers, somehow the morals that he was taught all these years had been lost in the stress and complexity of his work, “My cheek had grown pale with study… I pursued nature to her hiding-places”, his work begins to take over, he chases the powerful stature that is nature to places that he shouldn’t, this causes him to derail and loose track of his mental health and morals. Victor begins to dehumanise the project. “My materials”, (refering to the body parts, that he had sorced). He likes it to construction, not the sciences. Ironicaly with his ambitions to create life, he begins to put his own infront of