Learning Right From Wrong In Frankenstein
Learning Right from Wrong
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor and the creature go through their own problems and they face their own issues. But the big question is how do they both learn right from wrong. Victor was raised to be good, but he did not raise the creature to be good as well, instead he abandoned him. The creature has to learn by himself, or by following the act of what others do. Both of these individuals have trouble learning right from wrong, but some would say the creature is more forgivable.
Victor learns right from wrong during his childhood and growing up with his family. Which taught him when he does something bad he has to change it and when he does something good then he is congratulated. But he felt differently …show more content…
Alone and rejected by his father figure Victor, but he has no one else is willing to except him, “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more” (Chapter 24, pg. 232). The creature has tried many times to be a part of the human race and show them that he is not bad, but no one will listen. Victor only admits at the end that the creature was all his fault a never should have been created. “In a fit of enthusiastic madness, I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being . . . I refused, and I did right in refusing, to create a companion for the first creature. He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends . . . Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die. The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed” (Chapter 24, pg. 199-200). All Victor did was put the creature in a place where he should not have been in. Now the creature will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice by the following crowd and victor for something the creature never wanted to happen in the first place.
Victor and the creature went through a path that should of never happened. He could change this whole problem around if he would have done the right thing from the beginning. But now Victor needs to learn from his mistakes to make
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor and the creature go through their own problems and they face their own issues. But the big question is how do they both learn right from wrong. Victor was raised to be good, but he did not raise the creature to be good as well, instead he abandoned him. The creature has to learn by himself, or by following the act of what others do. Both of these individuals have trouble learning right from wrong, but some would say the creature is more forgivable.
Victor learns right from wrong during his childhood and growing up with his family. Which taught him when he does something bad he has to change it and when he does something good then he is congratulated. But he felt differently …show more content…
Alone and rejected by his father figure Victor, but he has no one else is willing to except him, “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more” (Chapter 24, pg. 232). The creature has tried many times to be a part of the human race and show them that he is not bad, but no one will listen. Victor only admits at the end that the creature was all his fault a never should have been created. “In a fit of enthusiastic madness, I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being . . . I refused, and I did right in refusing, to create a companion for the first creature. He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends . . . Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die. The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed” (Chapter 24, pg. 199-200). All Victor did was put the creature in a place where he should not have been in. Now the creature will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice by the following crowd and victor for something the creature never wanted to happen in the first place.
Victor and the creature went through a path that should of never happened. He could change this whole problem around if he would have done the right thing from the beginning. But now Victor needs to learn from his mistakes to make