Frankenstein

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.