Frankenstein By Mary Shelley Story Essay, Research Paper

In the story ?Frankenstein,? written by the author Mary Shelley, Victor

Frankenstein decided that wanted to create a being out of people that were

already dead. He believed that he could bring people back from the grave.

Playing with nature in such a way would make him play the role of God. With

Victor Frankenstein feeling that he had no true friends, the only relief he had

of expressing his feeling was through letters to Elizabeth. Elizabeth was not

Victors? true sister but he loved her very dearly, making sure to always write

her when ever he had the chance. Yet, when Victor left something strange came

over him. Already being interested in subjects such as natural philosophy and

chemistry, he fall upon the question of how to bring someone back to life. He

became very involved in this project and worked on it for days on end. The

project had to do with defying the laws of nature. Victor believe wholeheartedly

that he could bring the dead back to life. He felt that the dead were not ready

to die and they were just resting. Victor became so self absorbed into his

project that he seem to forget all that was important to him. He even disengaged

himself from all the people he loved in his life. People like his father,

Elizabeth, and other loved ones. Victor began to write less and less. Yet, it

was not until Elizabeth got a discouraged letter from Victor, did his love ones

start to wary about him. Though, the letter was full of words, it gave no relief

to Elizabeth, because the words meant nothing to her. However, they meant a lot

to Victor, because he felt the project in which he was working on was so

important to him, in his own delirious world. He felt that with bring people

back to life he would not only better man kind, but also establish a name for

himself. With this type of attitude, he did not even take into consideration

that he might make the world a worse place. This part in the story shows the

irony. The irony being that Victor Frankenstein feels he is doing something good

for the world, but we later find out just how bad this creation could be. Though

Elizabeth wanted to pull Victor away from his project, he was unwilling to leave

until it is complete. After Victor found how to bring his creation to life, he

also found out just how evil his invention could be. His creation was strong and

evil. With the escape of the monster, Victor Frankenstein had to come to

realization of what his creation might do and the consequences that

Frankenstein, himself would have to deal with. With the murder of his brother

weighing the guilt on his shoulders, Frankenstein know he had to do something.

So he went looking for the monster. Upon their meeting each other, the monster

confessed that when he found out that William as Victor?s brother he killed

him. He then proceeded to tell him that he killed his brother due to the fact

that he was trying to get back at his creator for bringing him to life and

allowing him to be an out cast in society. This killing prove to Victor that the

monster did not know right from wrong or how to cope with his anger. This

aggression made Frankenstein’s creation violent. While talking with the monster,

the monster demanded from Frankenstein to create a partner that he could be able

to live with away for society. At first, agreeing to the demand, but later

realized that if his first creation came out to be a killer so could the second

one. With this in mind Frankenstein revoked his agreement and decided against

creating another monster. Though, knowing that this decision could be dangerous

to him and his loved ones. Yet, he had to think of what was truly best for man

kind. Bringing the dead to life or saving the lives of the living. Another peace

of irony in this story is, just like Victor Frankenstein who had no friends and

was different from the rest of society so was the monster. Also, when

Frankenstein decided to play God and bring the dead to life, his creation took

on the same role when he decided to take away some ones life. All in all, both

Frankenstein and his creation had some of the same behaviors and both were going

to die themselves and be lonely meanwhile.