By attempting to discover the great mysteries of life, Victor Frankenstein plays God and pays the price of his "fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.... It is during this mission that Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been in pursuit of the monster across the ice and cold of the north. ... Frankenstein succeeds in discovering the secrets of life and death, and becomes able to bestow "animation upon lifeless matter" (p.38) During this time in Frankenstein's life, Shelley portrays his life as gruesome and grotesque very unnatural especially compared...

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Social isolation in particular impacts the two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and his creation. ... The main character, Victor Frankenstein, grew up in a very stable and privileged family. ... Likewise the creature that Frankenstein has created lives a tortuous and depressing life without companionship. ... The scarce amount of love between Victor Frankenstein and his creation immensely influenced one another. ... Within Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein," the pain of alienation and desolation that existed between the creator, Victor Frankenstein and the creation, the cre...

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The pursuit of knowledge leads to despair and corruption in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ... Upon arriving in Geneva, he finds out that a nice girl, Justine Moritz, who was living with the Frankenstein's had been accused of the killing. ... Victor Frankenstein did not consider any negative consequences of his scientific search. ...

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This growth continues over a period of time when the character is caught in between two worlds, like Victor Frankenstein was when he was creating the monster in Ingolstadt. He was tested throughout all of Frankenstein, trying to find the true meaning of himself and his work. ... Victor Frankenstein begins his journey as he leaves home shortly after his mother has passed away. ...

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The finished product Frankenstein was one that frightened Shelley herself. ... Victor Frankenstein, a seeker of distinction, is synonymous with his misuse of science that creates a creature for which he provides no direction. ... "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated whom am miserable beyond all living things." (125) The result of Frankenstein's abandonment is the creature's revenge against him. ... Of the events that unfolded in Shelly's masterpiece Frankenstein none of them can be excused, but given the creature's upbringing can easily be justified. ...

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