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Mary Shelley did a great job when she wrote the book Frankenstein. I thought the book was way ahead of its time; we still to this day could use this book as a principle in life. Just the idea of how Mary Shelly wrote the book was astonishing. She had a dream of this white pale monster, and decided to share this dream and bring it to life by writing a very detailed and emotional novel called Frankenstein. In the book Frankenstein, Mary Shelly explains to us how Victor Frankenstein comes up with the idea for his monster. Even through Victors struggles with loneliness and depression, he turns to what he loves the most, knowledge. With this knowledge, and the human body, he uses it to create what he believes will be the perfect friend for him. When in reality, this whole time it was Victor who needed to work on his own self. He was the monster who was obsessed with knowledge and life after death. He would later be in for a rude awakening, once he notices that this perfect human he had in mind would soon be, an eight foot monster who would ruin Victor’s life. When reading this book one very strong and powerful sentence stood out, and stated by Victor stated “One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries” (Shelley 52). Victor, in this novel, struggled with the knowledge he was gaining, and he wanted to know more. On page 47, Victor states “every minute,’ continued M. Krempe with warmth, ‘every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems is useless names. Good God!” You as the reader could then see that Victor wanted to push his limits with the knowledge that he was learning. One is left to believe, what is it that he is thinking of when he mentions “how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our enquiries” (Shelley, 52)? The theme that portrays along with these statements above is curiosity and confidence. As Victor spends his times in the vaults, and charnel-houses he starts seeing how the body decays and how intricate every part of the body. He states “I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter” (Shelly, 53). What was it that made him “myself” when before in the novel Victor was lost and not happy where he was at? After all his teachings, and learning with the human body, Victor starts to put together the idea of creating a human. He starts to collect parts and thinking how he can put together all these parts to create his monster. The part that has left me questioning and still does was when Victor stated “I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man” (Shelly 54). Instead of Victor being confident in his idea he starts to doubt himself, but snaps out of it and basically goes off to say that he is far better than to just give up. My question to myself was “why would a man still go through with an experiment that even he has doubt in?” It leaves you to think that his creation will not turn out the way he wants it to. Even with prior knowledge stating that bringing the dead back to life is impossible and very risky. I mean what did Victor think? That those professors were just blowing smoke up his way to make him doubt himself? That is where Victor’s confidence and curiosity gets in the way of good vs. evil, but in the end his evil side of confidence took over. Knowing this he still went through with his creation. Mary Shelley set the theme with madness along with confidence. It’s funny how the story’s theme changed from a prosperous project to an evil and dark project. Shelley, then touches on the theme of being to over confident in something that even the person is not certain of, but due to his confidence he forgets about the consequences that can come from it. I understand as humans we always want to be the next greatest thing. We always want to raise the bars, but yet we are so embarrassed or conservative amongst ourselves. Most of the times people settle for what they believe is comfortable. Why not be like Victor and go beyond your comfort level? Is it the fact that what we believe to be to the greater good won’t be for society, or is it the concept of your parents or someone else telling you not to speak your mind? Instead you speak your mind anyways and by doing so you get out of your comfort level. By getting out of your comfort level you express, and explain how you think your boss could improve his managing skills. Your boss could either accept your positive feedback, or simply fire you right on the spot. We just don’t know this if we don’t try it, but society is so conservative that we just confine our self’s for what we think is comfortable and ok. Victor pushed those feeling aside and went ahead, and followed what he believed was going to be the best thing ever to happen in medical history (Cohen). But with his madness and curiosity it brought to life the real monster, which was within Victor. Victor was creating this monster from pure dark thoughts, and emotions. Maybe that is why the monster came out to be this eight foot hideous white eyed monster that none could bear the thought of to even look at it. The reason why I say this is, after the monster comes to life Victor is in shock and disgusted with what he has created. Instead of loving his creation he hates it and abandons the monster, which leaves the monster to believe that not even his creator loved him so why should he care about anyone else. I believe that the monster committed those horrible acts in the novel due to his creator’s abandonment. The clues were throughout the novel with the murder of Victor’s brother. The monster had then taken away a piece of Victors love and family just like Victor did to the monster when he left it. Why would Victor abandon his creation when he knew that it was not a guaranteed result that he would get a perfect human? After all he did just do the impossible. It was as if the monster was a waste of Victor’s time and he did it just out of his curiosity and fulfillment, not thinking what the monster would think after hearing Victor degrade the monster and show it no love, which was pure selfish-ness. You as the reader are left to believe the true monster was Victor. And the reasons were throughout the whole novel, with him and his mad thinking with life, and science which brought the reasoning and idea for the monster. And later in the novel that reasoning branched off to be why the monster reacted the way he did due to Victor’s abandonment. The only thing monster wanted was someone to love him, and be a supportive partner. Instead the monster got shunned by his own creator which caused all this hatred between the monster and Victor. In the end both of their actions caused Victor and the monster a horrible ending.

Work Cited Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Ed. Maurice Hindle. Strand, London: Penguin books, 1992. “I understand as humans we always want to be the next greatest thing. And always want to raise the bars but yet we are so embarrassed or conservative” “Cohen, Daniel. Chapter 4 Frankenstein. 2012. 8 July 2012 http://web.ebscohost.com/pov/detail?vid=11&hid=15&sid=... .