Analysis of Victor and the Monster Frankenstein
Analysis of Victor and the Monster Frankenstein
Victor and the monster in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein have a lot of internal conflict happening inside both of their heads. They both are dealing with this sort of half demon and half human side to them. Victor thinks of science as this wonderful thing and puts all of his heart and soul into, not to mention he self thought all that he knows. This all conflicts when he creates the monster, b/c now this wonderful thing that he did all the time that he once thought was beautiful has now turned into this awful creature. He even foreshadows his own fate by saying “natural philosophy is the genius that regulated my fate” (Shelly, 46). He foreshadows his own death and the death of those around him a number of time just in the first couple of chapters. The reader knows that something immensely catastrophic is going to happen in the next couple of chapters by what is says this first ones.
So he talks about he fate and dying and all that but the real conflict is while the monster is alive for Victor. First he has his own brother die and we as the reader might think that that was what we were waiting for but then Victor gets very ill due to the guilt by which comes over him when Justine is killed. Here his is having this inner conflict of this monster that he created. He thought it was something beautiful but it came back to haunt him and now he has no way out. He is thinking of the demon inside of himself because he knows that this creature is not good and how could he create such a horrible thing when all he wanted was to create something beautiful.
Victor now sees knowledge as a curse rather than a gift. The monster begins to agree with him because he is beginning to wish he hadn‘t known any of this. He would have been much happier living in stupidity. The monster says, “Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen to a rock.” (Shelly, 109)
So, now all the reader can see is how could, Victor, this perfectly good human make something...