desolate your heart‚” (Shelley 174). Frankenstein has created such a destructive creature that is too powerful to vanquish which causes problems throughout the novel. Victor Frankenstein is accused of being the villain of the novel‚ because of his eagerness and willingness to go beyond God’s creation and create life once again. In many ways Victor is portraying the actual role of being the monster because he betrays his family‚ knowing the consequences that will happen. By creating the monster‚ he has become
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nurturing of an individual can affect his or her identity. The atmosphere a child is raised in can have a strong impact on who he or she becomes. Victor is being raised to see women as something to be handed around as if they are not actual humans. Victor’s mother gives Elizabeth to a young Victor as a “promised gift” (Shelley 21). His mother is allowing Victor to believe that women are objects or “gift[s]” that are seen as more valuable if they
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Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein is at fault for the destruction that takes place in the novel because of his abandonment and selfishness towards his creation‚ the monster. To begin with‚ Victor Frankenstein is undoubtedly at fault for the destruction in the novel because of his abandonment towards the monster. From the moment the monster is born‚ Victor despises him and struggles to get rid of the monster by running away and disowning him. In this way‚ as the monster wakes up‚ Victor runs away. “Unable
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characters‚ Victor‚ Victor’s father‚ and Thomas who have three different personalities. However‚ Thomas seems one of the most interesting characters in this short story. The author presents Thomas as a person who has not been affected negative by the hardship and struggles of modern day Native American. He is funny and traditional person; and has the kind of personality. Thomas represents a funny and traditional person: and has kind of personality through what he says. As Thomas greets Victor at the
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contact with the principle character‚ Victor Frankenstein. Robert had embarked a sea-faring life much against the wishes of his dying father. He wanted to discover a secret passage near the North Pole for the benefit of the countries of the world. Thus he wanted to help and facilitate future explorers. Like Walton‚ Victor Frankenstein wanted to help humanity and wished to banish disease from the human frame and thus make man invulnerable to a violent death. Both Victor and Walton wanted to achieve something
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with Victor who you would assume is facing some hard times losing his job and having his father pass away. After finding out about his father’s death‚ Victor has to go to Phoenix‚ Arizona to pick up his father’s ashes‚ pickup truck and money from his saving. Unfortunately‚ Victor doesn’t have enough money and neither did anyone else on the reservation to get Victor to Phoenix so he turned to the tribal council. The tribal council was also short on money only able to give 100 dollars to Victor which
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In the novel‚ Frankenstein by Mary Shelly‚ Victor creates the creature in order to be noticed and remembered for creating life. However‚ even though making the creature was fascinating and exciting for Victor once the creature was animated Victor wanted nothing to do with his creation. Throughout the novel the creature can be seen trying to fit in and be accepted by Victor and the other people in the society. However‚ he is turned away and treated harshly because he does not look like a normal human
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Robert Walton‚ meets up with Victor Frankenstein‚ who then tells Walton about his life. Frankenstein’s life started in Geneva where he grew up a happy child. After childhood Victor attends university where he studies natural philosophy and chemistry. During the end of his education Victor decided that he was doing to create the perfect human being‚ he then started shadowing butchers and studying the human body heavily. With this newfound knowledge of the human body‚ Victor gathered
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likes Thomas by the end of the story‚ Victor in fact still harbors certain feelings of dislike and contempt towards Thomas. Almost at the finish of the story “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ Sherman Alexie portrays Victor as being kind and friendly to Thomas. Victor feels the urge that he owes something to Thomas and ends up offering to Mr. Builds-the-Fire the precious ash remains of his recently deceased father. As kind as he was to do that‚ Victor immediately afterwards talks to Thomas
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long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow‚ or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed‚ my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing" (p. l07). Victor Frankenstein also had some hatred in his life which could have lead him to the revenge in his life. He wanted the monster he created to be perfect and have nothing wrong with him. The monster was not right and Frankenstein was mad so he just left
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