Starting With AClose Analysis Of Chapter 5 Discuss The Relationship Between VictorFrankenstein And The Creature.

As Victor is preparing for the final stages of his work he describes the feelings of 'anxiety almost amounting to agony' almost as if he predicts the actions which are now to take place, as he says ' I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse life o n the lifeless thing that lay at my feet' reading this the reader gets the impression that victor feels superior to normal man as he himself believes that he obtains the 'instruments of life' and is looking down at this being which is 'laying at his feet' he gives himself an almost godly importance.

The instant that the creature moves fir the first time we become aware of the negative and disappointing image seen by Victor, the very first description given to the reader is 'dull yellow eye of the creature opened,' merely by victor making this comment we are informed that victor is not pleased with what he sees.

Our assumptions are then reassured by the next paragraph which goes on to describe Victors feelings towards his final result in detail ' how can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how deneate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I endeavoured to form' the creature coming to life is described by victor as a 'catastrophe' he also refers to his creation as a wretch , he immediately lets us know the 'infinite pains and care' which he endeavoured to put into this creature was not worth it almost regrettable.

He then goes on to describe the creature physically, he begins by saying ' his limbs were in proportion and I had selected his feature beautifully' in this quote victor describes what his intentions had been yet then sarcastically contradicts this by saying 'beautiful! - great god' he then begins to describe the reality, what he really sees before his eyes, the wretch he had created Victor says to have 'yellow eyes skin scarcely covering covered the work of muscles ... shrivelled complexion and straight black lips'.

The description presented by victor is sickening, extremely unpleasant and gives victors creation a monster like appearance he describes his actions as 'an accident of life' and tells us that all the time hope and effort he had put into this project had been a waste of a dream 'I had worked hard for nearly two years...but now I had finished the beauty of a dream vanished' he feels 'disgusted' and horror filled his heart he 'could not endure the aspect of the being he had created'.

We are now sure about victors feelings and thoughts towards his creation and we know he cannot even stand being around it. The readers realise that victors subconscious believes that a woman is not needed in the creation of life ie reproduction we become aware o f this by analysing victors dream in which victor kisses Elizabeth ' in the bloom of health' as he does the 'hue of death' takes over her body and he sees himself holding his mothers dad mothers corps , he usurps the maternal role of a woman in his desire to create life, by kissing Elizabeth he was killing a part of her , killing her motherhood as he then sees his mothers corps. He realises he cannot be the 'creator' as his results are described by himself as disastrous.

victor wakes up the monsters first attempt to make contact is attempted ' his jaws opened , he muttered some inarticulate sounds , while a grin wrinkled his cheek....one hand was stretched out seemingly to detain me yet I escaped and rushed downstairs' as the creature tries to communicate with Victor, Victor immediately rejects him also misinterpreting the monsters reaching out to him with the creature wanting to 'detain' him. The creatures first contact with man was responded by cruel and utter rejection from his own creator, what is seen by him as his father.

On the other hand Victor sees his creation as a 'demonical corps miserably given life to' and even goes to the extremes of saying that not even 'Dante could conceive it' by making this analogy he underlines the horror he feels towards this being. Yet by initially rejecting the fruit of his labour so coldly it makes the reader wonder who the real monster is the creature or Frankenstein himself/

In conclusion the relationship between Victor and the creature is practically non-existent, Victor since the beginning develops a sense of hate and disgust towards this being which develops throughout the story and becomes a game of chase between the two, Victor does not want anything to do with it 'no mortal could support the horror of that countenance' and has convinced himself that the creature is evil, yet he was the first person to reject him as Satan was rejected, Satan became veil because of this rejection.

At this point the creatures attempts to relate to who he sees as his creator, his father yet fails miserably, the relationship throughout is that op confusion, rejection, anger and hate.