Victor Frankenstein Case

15 November 2012

Victor Frankenstein was born in 1771 in Naples Italy, to his mother Caroline Beaufort and his father Alphonse Frankenstein. According to Victor himself, he had a blissful childhood. He grew up reading works of ancient and outdated alchemists. (Sparknotes) As a young man he attended the University of Ingolstadt to study modern science. After a few years, Victor masters all the professors have to teach him and soon becomes obsessed with finding “the secret of life”. This is the turning point for Victor Frankenstein, when he overturns his own destiny and gives in to the evilness one gets by becoming selfish, and with that, dies a remorseful man.

Obsessed with creating new life, Victor creates a life out of the dead bodies he stole and sewed pieces of them together. He then shocks it to life with high volts of electricity. And just like that Victor created a monster for the sake of pure glory and immortality. Should Victor of been successful in learning how life worked, he would be able to apply his studies to himself and live for eternity. Finally, his work is completed: one night, the yellow eyes of the creature finally open to stare at Victor. When Victor beholds the monstrous form of his creation (who is of a gargantuan size and a grotesque ugliness), he is horror-stricken. He flees his laboratory and seeks solace in the night. When he returns to his rooms, the creature has disappeared. (gradesaver) Truly his motives were selfish, and while he created his monster, he thought nothing of what he was going to do with the life of this monster he had created. Victor’s biggest, most regretted mistake, would be when he walked away from this monster

and bore absolutely no responsibility to it. That was the beginning of the end of the life Victor Frankenstein knew.

The monster of Frankenstein desperately craves to be accepted and loved by people