Victor Frankenstein Character

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Victor Frankenstein Character Analysis

Mary Shelley creates a memorable character, Victor in the novel Frankenstein through characterizing Victor as ambitious, intelligent, and selfish. The novel is about this crazy genius man who went to college, studied hard and decided to create a human out of already dead parts of a human. However, because of his creation many bad things happen. Ambition is “the strong desire to learn or achieve something.” In the novel Victor shows off his ambition repeatedly, with his thirst for knowledge even though there are obstacles that get in the way. “The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they …show more content…
He first of all created this monster and then immediately runs away and leaves it in this world with nothing but itself. He tries to use he was protecting his own life as an excuse but we all know the real reason was because he was disgusted by the sight of the creation. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body but now that I had finished the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created."(Shelley 57). Disgust is huge feeling Victor feels towards the monster. The creation of the monster leads to a series of bad events. Which could've been avoided if Victor did not leave the monster out of disgust. First the monster kills his brother William. “William is dead! --that sweet child, whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay! Victor, he is murdered!” (Shelley 70). We find out later in the novel that he was murdered out of rage by the monster when he finds out that William is related to Victor. The monster gets mad and filled with rage because the thought of his creator makes him upset he vowed to get revenge on Victor anyway he could for abandoning him. “Frankenstein! You belong then to my enemy-- to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.” (Shelly 144). After …show more content…
By the end of the novel Victor's character doesn't go through a transformation which leads to him being lonely with a dead wife and deep depression. Ultimately his characteristics lead to the downfall of his own life which could've been avoided if he wasn't the way he
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