Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

From the day that Victor Frankenstein’s creature was brought to life, Victor wanted nothing to do with it at all. After all of his hard work in bringing an inanimate object to life, he had resentful feelings toward his creation, and never wanted to have anything to do with it. There are quite a few reasons as to why Victor rejects his creature from the day it was created. Victor is disgusted by the appearance of the creature he has assembled, Victor is disappointed in the finished product in the creature, and Victor feels sorry for himself and doesn’t think of what might happen to the creature if it’s left to fend for itself.

First of all, Victor rejects his creature from the day it became a living thing because he is plainly disgusted by the appearance of the creature he had spent so much time building. He picked out every part of his creation’s appearance so carefully, that it was if he was attempting to come across the perfect diamond. He wanted his creature to be appealing just as much as he wanted his creature to be alive. Victor thinks so little of the appearance of his creature that he calls it ‘wretch’, ‘hideous’, and a ‘filthy daemon’ (Shelly, 73). These words elaborate on the feelings that Victor has already shown his readers he has for the creature. Victor feels that the appearance of the creature has let him down, and has conquered him instead of he himself conquering the appearance of the creature. He does not want to care for such an ugly and vile entity that had come from nothing at all, and he certainly wouldn’t want the creature to become part of humanity.

Another reason as to why Victor rejects his creature from the day of its creation is that he is disappointed in what his creature has come. After working constantly for two straight years on his creature, what was supposed to turn out as a miraculous masterpiece turned out to be a failure in the eyes of Victor. All that he wanted to do was to bring a beautiful and desirable life to something lifeless, but his expectations for the results were highly set- possibly too highly set. Since the expectations turned out to be out of reach, Victor was disappointed and depressed because his goals were not reachable. “…But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”(42) His heart had been hoping all along that his creation would exceed his high expectations, and not that his creation would reach nowhere near his hoping level of achievement.

Lastly, Victor rejects his creature from the day of its creation because he feels sorry for himself, and does not think of what might happen to the creature if it is