As ironic as it seems‚ and for the many differences shown between Victor and the Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ there are also various similarities between these two characters. The way they want to learn‚ they way they used to love but now hate the world‚ and the great sense of remorse they feel at the end. Both‚ Victor and the Monster‚ had a great desire for learning. For Victor it was more about studying and becoming fully educated in the sciences. As for the monster however: he was more interested in learning about human life
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the cops beaten them and called them names and just didn’t care for anyone besides there self it gets me so mad that people are like that and never cared or don’t show it. The names of these stories or document is “Murder on a Sunday Morning” and‚ Monster ‚ one quote from these articles is “We fine him not guilty”. One lesson that can be learned from these is‚ stay out of trouble and never give up and try to always succeed in life.
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Throughout the novel Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley makes us question the idea and the definition of a monster. We have a picture painted in our heads of something that would hide under a bed or some spooky creature that resides deep in the woods or swamps. Mary Shelley makes us question ourselves and popular beliefs. To no surprise‚ most everyone would say that‚ of course‚ Victor’s creation is a monster‚ and at times‚ he seems like nothing but that. But at other times‚ the creation is quite the contrary
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Victor Frankenstein was always fascinated with his studies witch ultimately lead to the creation of the monster. Since Victor Frankenstein felt isolated from the outside world‚ one would assume that he built the monster to have a companion and to perfect humanity in the process but he ultimately fails. Even though he created the monster‚ Frankenstein was appalled to see he had created such a grotesque abomination and had no intension in keeping him around. If only the monster would have received
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Moreover‚ both Victor Frankenstein and the Arctic explorer Robert Walton‚ whose letters open the novel‚ hold a greedy thirst for privileged knowledge of those things that are unknown to the common person. Nevertheless‚ Shelley presents their stories as being in some sense similar to each other. Each one of them is a failure‚ and each suffers from the same fatal flaw. Walton‚ a voyager‚ explores the secrets of the natural earth‚ in the company of a crew of men on the same mission. However‚ Victor works in
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Victor Frankenstein and the Monster he created are very similar in many different ways. It all starts out with Victor starting to study the dark science‚ so he can create a monster to be like himself. While he is making this monster‚ he doesn’t realize how ugly and scary it was coming out to be. Victor makes the monster so ugly it causes him to abandon him and sends him away. It is just like what happened to Victor from his own creator‚ which was his father who had abandoned him when he was a
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Good intentions sometimes go awry. Victor Frankenstein meant well when he envisioned his skills as a scientist curing diseases. By experimenting with life‚ his creation was to help others. Whereas his man-made entity was supposedly his humanitarian contribution‚ Victor Frankenstein’s lack of basic humane treatment towards his creation showcased Victor as the monster. Unfortunately‚ the actions of Victor Frankenstein went contrary to his intent. Victor’s addiction to knowledge became an obsession
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Similarities Between Charlotte Gilman ’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Jean Rhys ’s Wide Sargasso Sea. Charlotte Gilman ’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Jean Rhys ’s Wide Sargasso Sea are stories about women ’s tragic lives in the late nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. These two stories contain many similarities. In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea‚ the main character Rochester drives his wife to insanity. Similarly‚ in the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ John drives his wife insane. In addition
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that reckless experimentation without adequate research can prove deadly due to unforeseen results. Victor Frankenstein provides an excellent example of how not to make decisions. This man ran headstrong into every decision he had to make‚ without at any point stopping to think about what he was doing. He shows us his lack of regard toward the responsibility he clearly had as the creator of the monster. His greatest mistake is when he doesn’t take the time to consider the results of his actions before
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letters to his sister in England Margaret Saville. Victor Frankenstein the genius mind behind creating the monster that results in his life going downhill until he is found by Walton on an ice burg in the North pole between life and death. Finding that his savior is also running after an obsession‚ Victor lying on his death bed recounts his wretched life to his rescuer hoping that he would learn from his mistakes. There are many similarities between these two unique and determined characters.
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