His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. His tale told, Frankenstein dies. The monster then sneaks on board, gives an eloquent soliloquy about his sorrow and leaps off the ship onto an ice floe — gone to find himself some wood and burn himself alive.
He tells Walton that he regrets the murders he has committed and that he intends to commit suicide. He enters life eight feet tall and enormously strong but with the mind of a newborn.
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Ben Davis May 30, What is tragic vision? Why is Victor Frankenstein a tragic hero? I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace. In Frankenstein, people are masters of their own destinies. Victor only blames fate because he's looking for an excuse. No one in Frankenstein can be held responsible for his actions, because fate is stronger than free will.
Summary: Chapter 22 The letter reminds him of the monster's threat that he will be with Victor on his wedding night. He believes that the monster intends to attack him and resolves that he will fight back. Whichever one of them is destroyed, his misery will at last come to an end. What evidence is there that the creature is still essentially good despite this momentous disappointment? The creature is still essentially good because he saves the young girl being taken from the fast stream.
In what way does his study of human society make him what he eventually becomes? Why does Victor think he survived all that he had been through? How is the fact that he lives ironic? He thinks his survival is a penance for his horrid creation. He concludes that he was, after all, "doomed to live. Victor refuses to make a female creature because he does not want to bring another dangerous and repulsive creature into the world. Why did the creature seize the small boy, William Frankenstein?
He wanted to educate him to become a companion. The creature was delighted that he was able to create despair for his creator. Frankenstein decides that he has a moral duty to destroy the female companion he is making for the Monster. He realizes that even if the Monster is not innately evil, he can't be sure the female companion won't turn out to be evil. Where did Victor see the creature again, several months after creating him? In the mountains. Victor does not love another, but he cannot forget the monster's threat that he would be with Victor on his wedding night.
As Victor dies, he realises that ambition and obsession has been his downfall. He warns Walton, who is also risking everything for scientific discovery, that he may be pursuing a foolish and misguided course of action. Victor is so caught up in the pursuit of knowledge and the creation of life that he feels invincible. He feels he should not have to justify his actions to anyone and that he alone has supreme power.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should claim theirs. Victor thinks of himself as godlike, bringing light where there is only darkness and creating life where it did not exist before. He thinks he can even cheat death.
Like a God he expects that his creations will show him gratitude and worship him without reservation. Victor does not think about the consequences of creating new life for either the individual concerned the Monster or society in general. Victor is responsible for creating the Monster and he is also responsible for abandoning it and setting in motion the train of events that result in the deaths of many of his family and friends.
However, he rarely accepts that he is at fault and instead blames the Monster for its own actions. When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed. When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.
Victor's guilt over his actions transforms into a desire for revenge.
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