also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills—like a God" (Shaffer 62). Normality exists in a medical textbook; weight of this number‚ intelligence quotient of this quantity‚ social functioning of this quality. Alan Strang and Victor of Aveyron fail to meet standards of normality. In Peter Shaffer’s Equus‚ Dr. Martin Dysart attempts to normalize his patient Alan. In François Truffaut’s L’Enfant Sauvage (1970)‚ Dr. Jean Itard sought to domesticate the wild boy. Both Dysart and
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In the last stages of the novel‚ Mary Shelley shows how the monster‚ in retaliation of Victor’s negligence‚ destroys his life by killing Victor’s loved ones. This affects Victor’s character to a great extent. As the novel progresses‚ gothic elements can be seen throughout‚ from the peculiar death of Victor’s younger brother to Victor’s repeated sightings of his murderous creation‚ to the murder of Victor’s closest friend‚ Henry Clerval‚ and to the death of Elizabeth. Frankenstein realizes that he
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put‚ corrupted by the evil that already exists in the world. As in Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein creates a being that he later turns away from due to its hideousness‚ but the Being was created with a innocence and pureness that all men are born into. The Being appears aside Frankenstein after he is awakened from a nightmare. The Being seems to want to communicate with his creator but he had not been taught. Victor takes his behavior as a form of malice. “And his eyes‚ if eyes they may be called
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for others the answer is not as simple as one or the other. Some might believe that the creature was created in the image of its creator; that the monster took many of its characteristics from its main source of inspiration‚ that inspiration being Victor Frankenstein. What is for certain is that the answer to this long debated topic is more complicated than it appears. This question is such a difficult topic to cover in that it has a plethora of unique‚ varying viewpoints to argue from. In many cases
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character‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ he is the protagonist and also writes the main portion of the novel. He discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent monster feeling increasingly guilty and ashamed. Victor realizes how helpless he is from preventing the monster from ruining his life and other people’s lives as well. The story takes place in Geneva in the 1800’s. Where most of it takes is in the frankenstein’s house in the town of Switzerland.There are a few different characters like Victor Frankenstein
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knowledge‚ and how much happier that man is who believes his own town to be the world‚ than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Victor did get his revenge. Though‚ it cost him the most vital thing a man can have‚ his life. After looking at the outcome of making the creature‚ it is clear that it was a damaging choice Victor made. For Elizabeth who ended up dying a horrible death due to the
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Reputation can make or break an individual. It determines how people view one another and it also decides how people treat and react to each other. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ the monster‚ Victor Frankenstein and Elizabeth Lavenza face struggles with their reputation and how it defines them. Also‚ in Othello by William Shakespeare‚ Iago‚ Othello and Desdemona are presented with similar struggles to the ones the characters in Frankenstein face. The presentation of reputation in both works allows
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In the novel Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley develops a character‚ The Creature‚ who appears to be innocent only to reveal his true self‚ a villainous monster. The Creature’s rain of terror commences with the homicide of William Frankenstein. He attempts to kidnap William and when the child threatens to tell his father‚ M.Frankenstein‚ the Creature is enraged and‚”..grasped his throat to silence him‚and in a moment he laid dead..” ( 131 ). Notably‚ the Creature’s actions stemmed from rage and selfish
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product of Victor Frankenstein which was a product of many various body parts of other humans. It was always in Victor’s delight to bring something back to life from the dead. So he does so by creating this monster. Shortly after creating the monster he realizes what he had done and what he had created. He was not willing to care for the monster that he had created for several different reasons like looks‚ knowledge and what others had thought. The monster realizes what has happened and what Victor has
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the cottagers‚ [he] abstained” (Shelley 99). The monster has been alive for a very short period of time and knows little of social norms‚ yet he has an instinctive predisposition towards good actions. Victor was also innocent in his youth‚ and remembers fondly how he was raised by devoted parents. Victor recalls‚ “I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed
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