The Id, Ego, and Super Ego

Psychoanalytical Approach to Frankenstein

Definitions

-The Id, Ego and Super Ego explanation here-

Question Obsessive Personality A man who wants glory and fame Ambitious Independent Realistic Intellectual

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His involvement with Elizabeth
While creating the creature
His studies

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Perspective on life
His teachings

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His personality is similar to walton
Walton is his past self
Elizabeth and Henry are seen as foils; he thinks that their keeping him from succeeding in reaching his goal.

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Victor is lonely, scared, not aware of the world around him
Weak conscious
Looks at moral values/human ethics with little regret

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The author is trying to prove to us that Victor is not insane, that he’s doing this for science.
The author always goes back to Victor on how what he is doing isn’t right but he continues to do it.

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He views himself as smarter and above everyone else around him.
He knows that he has an obsessive personality and that he makes himself sick but he doesn’t stop.

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Walton listens to Victor’s words and follows them. He considers Victor’s words advice. The author wants the readers to see Victor as a hero but the readers see Victor as crazy and insane. The other characters such as, Henry, Elizabeth, and his father, want Victor to be happy and go back to normal.

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“I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they become livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms;” (Page 59)

This shows that Victor’s mind is full of death and decay. His obsession with bringing people back to life and creating the creature caused him to have all these thoughts.

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Victor and the Creation both have inner hate for each other. The creature is pushed away by Victor. We can see when the creature kills all of Victor’s loved ones that there is a conflict