He wants to figure out what brings dead tissue to life. His obsession begins to take over his entire life and he loses touch with the people around him and with reality, and begins to look pale and really sick. As Victor says in his own words, "the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time"(39-40) this describes, a lonely man who has become separated from the world around him. This pursuit of the secret of life is tormenting Victor way before anything is even created. The big idea that he is not thinking of is the probability of devastating consequences of his work. .
His constant work on the project is driving him insane and nothing is going to stop his purpose to be successful. .
After months of sweat and working hard, Victor finally reaches his goal. He successfully brings life to the old, dead body parts he had collected. When Victor looks at his creation, he is horrified by his creations awful appearance. The creature is crude and ugly, not at all what Victor had imagined. This is the point where his new knowledge begins to be his downfall and corruption. This awful image of the creation will haunt Victor's thoughts that will be keeping him up all night. The day after his misfortune, Victor becomes very sick. This sickness symbolizes the chaos his creation is causing. Later, Victor receives a letter about his brother's death. Victor rushes home, and passes through the woods where his brother was strangles and he sees the monster. He becomes convinced that the creature is the killer. Victor is amazed and needs to get away for a while so he heads back to Geneva, where he grew up. 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. She is found guilty and sentenced to death.
