suicide in frankenstein

In consideration of Mary Shelley’s past experience with her mothers unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide, Mary Shelley intensifies a debate about suicide in her novel. Simply, Mary Shelley infers the idea that suicide is unacceptable by showing that the only exception to a reasonable suicide is actually the opposite of our natural human instinct and reasons. Suicide is deemed as a selfish act because our identity is somehow embarked in other people. This idea is shown in the beginning chapters when a hopeless and guilt-wrenched character, named Victor, strongly contemplates suicide. Victor later restrains from committing suicide when considering that an ending to his existence would cause misery upon his loved ones. Percy Shelley, who is the father of Mary Shelley, had an ex-wife that committed suicide because he left her for another woman. In relation to this event in Mary Shelley’s life, she poses another idea that loneliness is not a justification of suicide. Although Mary Shelley infers the idea that suicide is unacceptable, she later exposes the only exception to the rule of suicide in her concluding chapters. In Mary Shelley’s very unique novel, a monster is created by a character named Victor. The monster is a very inhumane character that was brought into the world with an uncontrollable rage. Through various scenes in the novel, the monster had a disorderly instinct to kill people and his presence was terrifying to the public. The monster had nothing to lose when facing death and his identity was at most threatening to the community. Because the monster was not supposed to be created and was born with a negative responsibility to the people, he is exemplified as a unique exception in which someone can commit a moral and triumphant act of suicide. By his hideous image, monstrous rage and inhumane actions, Mary Shelley positions that it is unacceptable to take one’s own life, but through the creation of the monster in her novel, Frankenstein, she uses the