Exploring the Tragic Consequences of Victor Frankensteins Ambition

Abstract

Frankenstein is a fictional story or a horror novel written by Mary Shelley in 1818. Shelley tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young, intelligent, and ambitious man whose urge to unravel the mystery of life led him to unbearable life that ended in sorrowful death. Frankenstein's love for knowledge is expressed after his mother's funeral when he plans to study at Ingolstadt University. He succeeds in studying science, and his curiosity about science leads him to his scientific discoveries. Frankenstein created life out of the inanimate, which the horrible Monster represents. Shocked by the Monster's characteristics, Frankenstein flees to separate himself from his shocking discovery. Due to the shock and exhaustion, he falls sick for months. Upon recovery, he gets back to his house only to realize that the Monster had started its revenge against him for neglecting and abandoning it through its creator. Conflicts between the Monster and its creator intensified with Frankenstein trying to terminate the Monster's life but all in vain. The story ends sadly as Victor Frankenstein dies struggling for revenge rather than resolving the conflict between him and his creation. In Frankenstein, Victor starts as a sympathetic character with a well enquiring mind and defined interest in scientific development, but his ambition changes him to an arrogant and extremely single-minded character. Victor Frankenstein and his mother had a very close relationship that allowed him to express his concern and sympathetic nature to his family and his childhood lover Elizabeth, but when death struck his mother, his interest in science proved the only remedy to forget her mother. According to Shelly’s narration (1-10), since childhood, victor has expressed great interest in science, but he loved his mother so much that he always interacted and enquired about his concerns. Victor spent most of his time with the family members and expressed great concern for Elizabeth (a cousin his mother adopted at a tender age and became his lover) and his father. However, when his mother died, he chose to join Ingolstadt University to study science as a way of seeking a lonely place to grief his mother. Unfortunately, his long stay at school, especially after succeeding in studying and concentrating...