Who Is Victor Frankenstein A Hero

DANGER OF GLORY
Born from Mary Shelley’s nightmare when she was 18, Frankenstein has been an obsession for readers in ages since it was written. The book centers on scientist Victor Frankenstein’s eager to create life and his inability to control its consequences. In his thirst for knowledge, Frankenstein disrupts natural order and brings about chaos in life. Yet, Frankenstein is more driven by accomplishment than the sake of knowledge. His insatiable ambition to conquer knowledge and go beyond secrets of life results in his chains of downfall throughout the story. In Frankenstein, glory proves to be a dangerous pursuit that goes beyond people’s control.
Victor’s attempt to achieve recognition and glory begins his own destruction.
Since childhood,

He collects Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus’s theories and submerges in science enticement. In university, his success in chemistry also builds up to his passion. Victor’s improvement of the chemistry instruments is introductory to his life-long goal, which is to create a human life. As Victor longs to penetrate the secret of natures, he decides to create a human creature from his own hands. He avidly examines the cause of life and death, the structure of human frame, and the principles of life. His fervent longing and excitement prompt him to the point at which he announces, “What [has] been the study and desire of the widest men since the creation of the world [is] now within my grasp”(53). Thirst for recognition clouds rational perceptions of what is impossible and what is possible. Indeed, Victor’s ambition leaves no room for his acknowledgement of human limits. The prognosis of glory allures Victor to sacrifice his connection with the outside world, health, and diet while staying desolated in the laboratory. After Frankenstein figures out what gives life, he assembles body parts from the corpses that he collects and starts to construct a human being. A potentially fruitful result incites Victor to exhaust himself in the process of creating a human and blinds him to the dangerous repercussions of his own conductions. He does not know what awaits him and innocently gives birth to

Frankenstein’s excessive drive for knowledge is his flaw because it goes against human limits and natural order. Although Victor realizes that his dream is no longer possible, he does not yet see how glory enthralls his life and consumes him to pitfalls – deaths of his surrounding people. Victor’s denial of the monster pushes it to kill William and impute the crime on Justine, who also dies because of the wrongful execution. Although Victor can clear Justine from blame by claiming the existence of the monster, he does not do so. His helplessness proves that his creation, the monster, is out of control. After William and Justine, Henry Clerval is the next victim of Victor’s voracious pursuit. Victor