Topic > Frankenstein: Victor, Suffering in Silence - 1106

Throughout the book of Frankenstein, the creator of the being Frankenstein, Victor, is experienced as a suffering being. From the beginning he remembers a period of his childhood when he was happy and surrounded by love, a period in which his mother lived. Victor's downfall or the beginning of his misfortune begins with the death of his mother. Victor leaves his family to begin a new phase of his life, he sets out in search of answers, a true search for knowledge. Personal motivation will lead Victor to accept the challenge of overcoming death or, to be more precise, giving life to a corpse. This challenge, which has formed deep within Victor, makes him forget his own life and leads him to isolation and complete concentration. on the project. Blinded by his research, Victor is unable to measure the consequences of what he is trying to do. Victor returns home feeling frustrated and feeling like all his hard work had ended in total failure. Furthermore, Victor feels guilty, realizing that his creation is the cause of his little brother's death. During this time, he also discovers that an innocent victim, Justine, is being convicted and sentenced, a person of great significance, someone like a sister, to the love of his life, Elizabeth. By analyzing the following paragraph, the reader can see the difficulty Victor has in expressing his emotions. I could not answer: “No Justine,” said Elizabeth, “he is more convinced of your innocence than I, because even when he heard that you had confessed, he did not believe it.” Victor began this paragraph with his own statement: “I couldn't answer,” he could have started with Elizabeth's expressions, but he chose not to. He wanted to state his frustration and show his... half of the paper... there are various examples of suffering in different characters a because of their difficult situations or the circumstances in which they find themselves surrounded Mary Shelley is trying to demonstrate that suffering is a general emotion for many different types of people, she emphasizes the fact that suffering is a consequence due to the actions of the individual. . Victor suffered because of the ambitions of his final challenge. The work cites Shelley, Mary W. (2005). "Frankenstein." Published on Digireads.com. Chapters 8, 21 in Frankenstein." 123HelpMe.com. Retrieved March 20, 2010, from https://www.123HelpMe.com/view.asp?id=14626>.Jones, Chris. "The Major Themes of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley." Published July 24, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2010, from http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/796197/major_themes_in_frankenstein_by_mary.html