He wanted to “pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.” He forced Him self to spend days going through family body vaults and charnel houses. He collected the body parts and took them to His laboratory where He would piece together the limbs and other scavenged body parts that He had acquired.
At this present moment in time, Victor Frankenstein does not seem to be a bad person; he wants to stop every means of death, apart from a violent one. He would also like to bring back people from the dead. It seems like a good thing to do, apart from he has not thought about the consequences. He has set his hopes to high thinking that he can bring back people from the dead. He does not know what he is getting him self in to. He is setting off in the venture of trying to reanimate life.
After creating the new being, Victor was very emotional, He was unhappy and certainly not proud of it, he was horrified. He described it as “a catastrophe.” He was very naïve about the looks of the creature, He hoped it would have extraordinary looks. It did have “hair of a lustrous black, and flowing, teeth of pearly whiteness, but it had yellow skin that hardly covered his body and it had watery puffy eyes, straight black lips, it was mummy like.
Victor was terrified of his creation. He left it alone and locked it in His laboratory. Victor left to think about what had happened. He decided to return to His laboratory. He met His friend called Clerval, they both entered Victor’s lab, Clerval did not know about the goings on of Victor. Victor checked out His lab, the creature had gone. Victor ran down to Clerval after His discovery, he jumped for joy and clapped His hands.
Victor had no worries or cares about what might happen to it or the people around it.
Victor Frankenstein’s creation was child like, it did not know right from wrong, how to walk, read, write and speak: it had to learn every thing all over again.
The creature hid from the town dwellers in His birth town after they tried to beat Him because he was different from them. He ran of into the wood and lived of the things he could find.
When he was walking through the woods he came to a clearing where a small wooden hut was situated. A family inhabited the small dwelling where they worked off the small amount of land that came with the cottage they rented.
At the beginning of the winter months, the family was finding it hard to find suitable food to eat. Unknown to them, Victor’s creation was eating their food. They had an extra mouth to feed with the small amount of food they had for them selves. The creature started to see how they were struggling to feed them selves. He then ceased to eat their diminishing food supplies. He ate the berries and other small fruits that he found in the woods. He is good at this stage because He has seen how He was upsetting the family when He was eating their food; He realised this and started to chop wood to repay the family. He is aspiring to be like the family, He wishes to be friends with them and have friends of His own.
There are a series of events, which leads up to the creature becoming resentful and violent. He first saw His reflection in a pond; His gaze laid eyes upon His ugly, repulsive reflection.
He could not believe that His creator had made Him this ugly.
When He saw the blind Grandfather alone one day, He decided He would approach Him because He thought the Grandfather would be more understanding as he was old and more wise. This was so but when the old man’s daughter in law and Granddaughter returned, they screamed at the sight and the son came rushing home. The son thought the creature was attacking his father and so the son attacked the creature. The creature ran away and did not respond with violence. The creature did not lash out because He thought that if He did it would ruin any chance of becoming friends with the family.
Later on in the week he over heard a conversation between the son and their landlord, the son said, “My wife and sister will never recover from their horror.” After the conversation the creature gave up all hope of befriending the once, happy, joyous and caring family.
The family left the cottage out of fright; meanwhile the creature was angry and very upset. He went back to the empty cottage and set the wooden building alight. He watched the cottage burn and He enjoyed it.
Later on in the creature’s life He found Victor’s diary which contained notes on how His creator abandoned Him. In the front of Victor’s diary it had His home address of Geneva written in it. The creature was determined that Victor would feel His wrath. He set of to Geneva to get revenge.
On His arrival in Geneva, he saw a small boy walking on the same lane that He was on. The creature hid in the bushes and wandered whether he should He reveal Him self to the child. He thought that if the child being young would understand His condition. He decided to reveal Him self.
He took hold of the small boy’s arm, He wanted to protect and look after Him.
The child screamed, the creature told the boy His intentions, that He wanted to be friends. The boy kept on screaming, He cried out, “Monster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces, you’re an ogre, let me go or I will tell my Papa. My father is Mme Frankenstein.”
“You belong to my sworn enemy, Victor Frankenstein. After all the upset He has caused me, I will give Him something to be upset about.” With that the creature picked up the small boy William and throttled Him. The creature gained enormous pleasure over killing William, He had the taste for killing and He wanted revenge.
The creature met with Frankenstein in the remote mountainous regions of Geneva, no one around to disturb them. The monster did not attack Victor, he wished to talk; the creature wanted Victor to create another being, a female one this time. Victor was served with an ultimatum, if he would recreate another being they would retire to South America or Victor would feel his wrath, fired by hatred, self-pity and desire for a mate.
The creature does have a right to a mate, He will go away and not disturb any one ever again or He will destroy Victor if He does not.
Victor has reason not to create a mate, She could be even worse, she has not promised to be good, the creature could hate it, they could come back or they might desolate the world.
When Frankenstein was on His death bed, He said, “Examining my past conduct, nor do I find it blameable.” He feels it is not His fault about what has happened and He feels He had done nothing wrong. He knows He had responsibilities but He ignored them thinking the duties towards the beings of my own species were more important.
Victor said He was right about not building a new creature. He says the first one went wrong and killed his friends and family, so He will not create a partner for the creature that killed them. He said it was evil and He had to kill it.
The creature is very upset, He admits to killing Victor by leading Him to the icy lands. He asked for forgiveness but He knows it will not change anything.
It said He had put up with more anguish than Victor ever had, He had to do it even though he didn’t want to do it. When Victor was about to be cremated on the ice fields, the ice cracked up, the monster swam across and lit the pyre, and He stayed there next to Victor while He burned.
I think that Victor Frankenstein was not evil, He was very confused and completely adsorbed in what he was doing, he was sure he was right, wanting to get rid of death, apart from a violent on.
The creature was good in that he helped the family in the winter when food was scarce. However he did turn to evil was towards the end of the book after he failed with living with him self, destine to walk alone for the rest of his life. Another aspect for being evil was that he killed his creator; the man he gave him his pitiful life, and his family.
CHRIS PYEMONT
