At first I found it difficult to read this novel. After reading more I found the reading very interesting and am finding myself reading more and more, and anticipating the next events.
“ From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. “ (Shelley 29)
After Victor left home for Ingolstadt he becomes highly fascinated with the sciences, more in particular the human anatomy. He was interested in where people come from and what happens when we die.
Victor became so intrigued by creating human life he started neglecting and shadowing himself with his work. “ I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest health.” (Shelley, 34.) He shadowed himself away from his family. He worked so hard with his only concentration being his work. Victor becomes soon becomes lonely.
Victor soon realizes that his creation is not what he thought it would be. “ “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I endeavored to form? “ (Shelley 34)
Victor didn’t intend on creating a monster. He was merely in my opinion trying to create a friend. Feeling the loneliness of his family weighed a toll on him. He soon finds out that “knowledge” has it pros and cons.
Frankenstein I believe is ashamed of what he has created. To devote all of your time to creating someone and for it to not to our likings can be depressing and frustration. He worked so hard to create this being and is more disappointed in himself.
When he returns to his apartment he finds joy in the fact the monster is no longer there. He isn’t concerned with the monster’s whereabouts or his disappearance. He doesn’t find any emotions that could or would be concerned with the monster’s whereabouts or his state of mind. I found that to be insulting to himself and his creation.
I also think that Frankenstein was only trying to create a friend. He had no one who shared his interests in science, and in fact, his father tried to persuade him to have nothing of it. He was feeling very alone on his voyage to Archangel, and said in a letter to Margaret, "But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection." (Shelley 10).
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