Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Thesis

Although humans have the tendency to set idealistic goals to better future generations, often the results can prove disastrous, even deadly. Humans are weak and so are their decisions and their control over their fates. Nature rules everyone and anyone who tries to have a control over what fortune holds for him/her has to face destruction.

Arguments

The tale of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses on the outcome of one man s idealistic motives and desires of dabbling with nature, which result in the creation of horrific creature.

Victor Frankenstein was not only doomed to failure from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge but also because of his poor parenting of his progeny that lead to his creation s thirst for the vindication of his unjust life. In his idealism, Victor is blinded, and so the creation accuses him for delivering him into a world where he could not ever be entirely received by the people who inhabit it. Not only failing to foresee his faulty idealism, nearing the end of the tale, he embarks upon a final journey, consciously choosing to pursue his creation in vengeance, while admitting he himself that it may result in his own doom.

The creation of an unloved being and the quest for the elixir of life holds Victor Frankenstein more accountable for his own death than the creation himself. Delivered into the world, full grown and without a guardian to teach him the ways of the human world, the creation discovers that he is alone, but not without resource. He attempts to communicate to his creator, however, he is incapable of speech.

As Frankenstein recounts the situation, he says, I beheld the wretch---the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaw opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs (Shelley, p. 43).

As Frankenstein explains, he declares that he deliberately neglects to communicate with his creation, based on its shockingly hideous appearance. Had Frankenstein taken the time to communicate and care for his creation, with all the knowledge that he possesses of the responsibility of a good parent, the creation would have never developed the sense of vindication and reprisal that lead him to murdering Victor s loved one s. The creation would henceforth account Frankenstein for all his sufferings succeeding his birth.

Frankenstein s first of numerous mistaken decisions ill-fating his destiny relies greatly upon a lack of responsibility for the creation he so passionately brings to life in the early chapters of his tale. From his very first words, Victor claims to have been born to two indefatigably affectionate parents in an environment of abundant knowledge. As he speaks of his parents, Frankenstein attempts to portray his fortunate ...