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Who Is Victor's Ambition In Frankenstein
The monster is also a male who is quite ambitious but the difference between him and Victor is that Victor desired for power and fame and to achieve something which no one has achieved but the desire of the monster was to be accepted by the society as a fellow being. The monsters ambition can also be seen as great as Victor because even he pushes his own self in every possible way in his attempt to be accepted by the society. He kept his own self locked and hidden in a hovel, he also strove hard to learn the human language and also made several attempts to approach the humans in order to be understood and accepted but similar to victor even he did not succeed in his ambition and was always rejected by the human society. Inspite of all his attempts

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