Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a
novel often read by a critique of romanticism. Victor Frankenstein is pulled in
by conflicting directions because his ambitions for science and creating a
living being who he’s ashamed of creating. Victor Frankenstein undergoes a
drastic emotional transformation as a result of his mother’s death in the
creation of the monster. His ambition for science still flows strong through
him, but the monsters made his despise his creation. “It became a thing such as
even Dante could not conceive” (60) His creation where as he once loved doing
so much caused the death of his mother whom he loved so dearly. Lead to a great
demise. He always thought it would turn
out to be a beautiful creation “The wretch whom with such infinite pains and I
care had endeavored to form?” (58) Then resulting in great failure and the
monster ending up terrorizing the town.
In the end he has regretted his decision in creating the monster and
inside his head he became sicken by his creation rather than playing God and
giving life to an inanimate object. “But now that I had finished, the beauty of
the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” (59) In
the aftermath of his creation his greatest achievement became his greatest
demise. In the
novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein had been so deep in his
tunnel vision that he could not see the consequences that it would of effect on
the villagers.
