Who Is Victor Frankenstein A Hero

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, her two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster both play an important heroic role. Shelly wrote Frankenstein when science was major concern of everyone and was surging all over. Victor Frankenstein is an intelligent scientist who has the desire to do something people say was impossible. Dr. Frankenstein and his family are the most distinguished people of republic of Geneva. His dad married Caroline and adopted a girl name Elizabeth and her age is the same as Victor. He also has a younger brother named William.

When Dr. Frankenstein was the age of thirteen he discovered about the works of Cornelius Agrippa. He was fascinated by the ideas of modern science. He also encountered a catastrophe that made him more interested in learning about electricity and galvanism. When he was at the age of seventeen his mother dies due to scarlet fever. Dr. Frankenstein was saddened by his mother’s death. “No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and
It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being”.(40) Victor Frankenstein devotes most of the years of his life to create this creature out of body parts but he does not think about the consequences of what could happen after creating this creation. Victor’s obsession with controlling life and death is a direct challenge to the power of God. Creating life to Victor seems to be prodigious and during the period of time in which this book was written it could be considered just as inane too. For victor creating life could also give him massive amount of pride and confidence. Victor does not think about benefitting other from his creation and causes harm to his beloved ones. He used science to help him with his curiosity but he goes too far and he unleashed a strong evil