Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist

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Frankenstein

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Mary Shelly 

One aspect the novel Frankenstein written by Mary shelly is how dreams and ambitions can sometimes result in disappointment or even tragedy. I will show this by analysing the main characters of the story

        Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist of the story. Victor was created to show the reader the effects of prejudice. From the start Victor was shown to be selfish, this was shown by the predominance of the personal pronoun on page 56 and throughout the first part of the novel. Victor has a vision to aid mankind by creating life but he was not prepared to take in or tackle the consequences. By creating life he is affectively sinning against God, He has committed hubris (at this point in time religion was conveyed as very important). His Intentions were good yet because of his prejudice he judges his creature on physical attributes rather than his intellect and overall benevolence. His dream at the moment was broken, ruined and all because he possessed prejudice. Victor does actually have 4 dreams but creating his creature was by far his priority. His four dreams are:

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  • To aid mankind with his knowledge of science.
  • To create life.
  • To be able to marry Elizabeth and start a family.
  • To help his family (love and companion ship).

The first dream was based on the death of his mother; this inspired him to make breakthroughs in science would help him in his case

        His second dream was based on his growing obsession about science and experiments involving the use or corpses. But this is a grave sin as I have said.

        The third dream was to marry Elizabeth after university; they fell in love as they ...

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