Frankenstein the book is an epistolary novel; this means it is told in diary entries or letters through many different peoples’ views or opinions. The first part of the story is told by Captain Robert Walton through letters he sent while he was on the voyage. Also at the beginning of the book we learn that Robert Walton is just like Frankenstein because they are both ambitious on what they do and what they believe in. For example, Frankenstein is ambitious on creating the creature and Captain Walton is ambitious by going to edge of the world so he can become famous forever. Captain Walton is very important to the story because he is just like Frankenstein in being ambitious and plus he tells part of the story in a different view. Frankenstein mistake has made Walton think again about the voyage and think about things that are more important like family and because of this he turns the boat around and goes towards home. But this is only because the impact Frankenstein had on him about his family and losing everything you love.
When the creature comes to life we are confronted with the consequences of Frankenstein blind ambition. The creature is described to be a person with limbs in proportion, and some features as beautiful, skin yellow, his hair was of a luscious black which flows, his teeth of a pearly and a horrid contrast which is watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun white and straight black lips. Shelley describes him as being beautiful and ugly because she doesn’t want to describe him in a good or bad way, so writing both lets people choose themselves not buy a story saying he is bad or good because he could be either. For example, when someone took the creature as bad without knowing him was Frankenstein. Frankenstein’s first impressions of the creature is of it being evil because the creature reaches out to him but someone who thinks he’s good could say his reaching out for love but Frankenstein doesn’t give him a chance and runs away leaving the creature on the floor like leaving a baby not knowing the ways of life like walking and how to use his emotions. For example “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed chamber.” When Frankenstein leaves, he realises that his ambition had gone too far and now the creature alive he thinks he has created an evil monster without actually knowing. We know that Frankenstein took making the creature too far because he worked at it for months and was willing to lose everything to make the creature. Like when his wife to be comes to find him, she sees him all dirty and messy which is not Frankenstein. Also he starts lying to her about what he is doing and starts to push her away. When the creature was alive and gone he sets out to kill it but before he could the creature had already killed his brother and then his wife, so that Frankenstein is left with no one.
Chapter five is where Victor brings the creature to life. He has worked for nearly two years to make his dream come true, and now that it finally had, he is repulsed. The themes include playing God, scientific advancements, parent/child relationships. Victor has no business attempting to create or bring the dead back to life, yet he has spent two years attempting that very thing. Once he is successful, he runs from it. This brings us to the parent/child relationships. How would you feel if when you were born, your mother and father ran and shrieked at the sight of you? I'd say that would be pretty demoralizing and horrible. So, the creature is abandoned by his own creator/father and he has nothing but his own resources to fall back upon. Later, the creature tells us he was born a benevolent creature, but without the knowledge of survival that parents are supposed to teach their offspring. Because of this, the creature learns many hard knocks and ultimately this leads him to feeling angry and vengeful toward Victor. What this tells us about 19th Century life is that many people had concerns about where science and the advancements made were going. Much like today with our debates over stem-cell research and what is and what isn't right.
At the end of this essay I would just say he should have never let something talk over your life and keep your family close to your heart because you never know what’s going to happen in the future and also get to know someone before you judge, just like when people say don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Frankenstein should have never judged the creature because of what he looked like.
