Frankenstein

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Frankenstein
by:
Mary Shelley

This story's protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, decided that he wanted to create a being out of people that were already dead. He believed that he could bring people back from the grave. Victor Frankenstein felt that he had no true friends, and the only release of emotions was through letters to Elizabeth. Elizabeth was not Victor's true sister, but he loved her very dearly and made sure to always write her whenever he had the chance. Already being interested in subjects like natural philosophy and chemistry, he fell upon the question of how to bring someone back to life. He became incredibly involved in this
project and worked on it for days on end. The project had to do with defying the laws of nature. Victor completely believed that he could bring the dead back to life. He felt that the dead were not ready to die and they were just resting. Victor became so self absorbed into his project that he seemed to forget all that was important to him. He even distanced himself from all the people he loved in his life like his father and Elizabeth. Victor began to write less and less. When Elizabeth recieved a discouraging letter from Victor she begins to worry about him. Though, the letter was full of words, the letter gave no relief to Elizabeth, because the words meant nothing to her. However, they meant a lot to Victor, because he felt the project in which he was working on was so important to him, in his own delirious world. He felt that with bringing people back to life, he would not only better mankind, but also establish a name for himself. With this type of attitude, he did not even take into consideration that he might make the world a worse place. This part in the story shows the irony. The irony is that Victor Frankenstein feels he is doing something good for humanity, but would later find out just how bad this creation would be. Though Elizabeth wanted to pull Victor away from his project, he w...