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    VICTOR USURPS THE ROLE OF GOD AND CREATOR •  Victor’s  crea‚on  of  the  monster  from  dead  ma2er  to  a  living  being  is  approached  purely   scien‚fically  and  in  an  empirical  manner.  Taking  his  studies  of  the  natural  world  and   philosophers‚  he  creates  life  and  directly  challenges  the  comfortable  certain‚es  of  religion.   •   By  Victor’s  example  there  is  no  longer

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    Wednesday‚ April‚ 30th Life Lessons of Victor Frankenstein Mary Oliver once said that the instructions for living life are to “Pay attention‚ be astonished‚ tell about it.” This profoundly speaks about life lessons and that they key is to pay attention‚ learn from them and be astonished and then share our own wisdom to benefit others. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly‚ Victor Frankenstein learns many lessons throughout the course of the story. Victor learns three main lessons; that keeping

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    Thomas and Victor. The man that saves the babies is the dad of Victor. That conflict is the initial conflict of the story. Then when Victor is about twelve‚ his dad leaves him. This conflict can be considered man vs. man or man vs. self. This starts the worst of the conflicts in the story. After that Thomas always bugs Victor about why his dad left. This causes them to argue. This conflict is man vs. man. Later‚ when Victor and Thomas are teenagers Victor’s mom gets a call saying that Victors dad is

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    relationship of creation and destruction impacts Victor tremendously when the monster asks him to create a female monster companion (Shelley 104). The female monster’s creation leads to the Victor’s destruction. Victor refuses to create this monster‚ but the monster threatens Victor: “…I will work at your destruction‚ nor finish until I desolate your heart…” (104-105). The monster is filled with hatred‚ and he threatens to destroy everything that is close to Victor if he does not collaborate with the monster’s

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    the main character Victor‚ shows bad parenting styles by abandoning his creation when he sees the two years of hard work fail and turn into a nightmare. The result of abandonment shows up as the monster that’s been created tries to get revenge on Victor and punish his family by killing them‚ teaching the monster to learn how to do things on his own and how their friendship struggled throughout the novel. In the novel Frankenstein‚ due to bad parenting and abandonment by Victor‚ the monster makes

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    Frankenstein‚ the main character Victor Frankenstein has a duality of character in which he is both creator and destroyer. This is evident in the novel through examples such as his self-isolation to develop an understanding of anatomy as well as to construct the monster‚ destroys his relationships with his family. Even through his creation of the monster Victor unknowingly brings about the deaths of people close to him; William‚ Henry Clerval‚ and Elizabeth. Victor Frankenstein’s duality as a creator

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    monster the novel and conveys its detrimental nature through use of the Creature and Victor. Initially Victors need to explore the world and gain all available knowledge‚ served as his established career. It was not until he became consumed by his hunger for knowledge that he began his demise. While creating the Creature‚ Victor became entranced and his health began to fail because he spent days without sleeping. Victor had become a slave to his ambition and could see nothing beyond attaining his goal

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    Victor Frankenstein wanted to become this eccentric scientist who conquers death in bringing eternal life to mankind by creating a different form in his vision. With him using his knowledge as power to portray God‚ Victor never asks himself if he should‚ but only if he could. In the book of Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein claimed to be creating the monster for the betterment of humankind. He did it out of arrogance‚ or out of a desire to become like God. Victor not only created life‚ but destroyed

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    high school. In the story Seventh grade by Gary Soto‚ a boy named Victor tries to impress this girl named Teresa. Victor has a huge crush on Teresa‚ and he struggles trying to get her attention. In this story‚ Victor tries several things trying to impress Teresa. Victor tries scowling with his friend Michael. Michael think scowling works‚ but when Victor looks at Michael‚ he thinks it looks ridiculous. Victor also tried to impress Teresa by telling his french teacher he actually knew french

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    HENRY – CIHLDHHOOD FRIEND VERY NOBLE AND GETS KILLED BY MONSTER AS REVENGE FOR VICTOR DESTROYING THE SECOND MONSTER‚ VICTOR IS ACCUSED OF MURDER‚ MAKES VICTOR SICK FOR A COUPLE MONTHS ALPHONSE – FRANKENSTEINS DAD‚ RESPECTABLE‚ KINDA‚ RESPECTS WOMEN AND CARES FOR FAMILY‚ SOPPORTS VICTOR WITHOUT QUESTIONING THE MONSTER – UHH STUDY GUIDE SHOULD BE ENOUGH AGATHA – YOUNG GIRL VILLAGER THAT MONSTER LEARNED FROM‚ KIND BUT WHEN SAW MONSTER SHE SCREAMED SO MONSTER SAD JUSTINE – MAID/FRIEND OF ELIZABETH/FRANKENSTEIN

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