Merry Shelly's Frankenstein Research Assignment Paper

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Merry Shelly's Frankenstein
Introduction
Victor Frankenstein's biography is vividly depicted in Merry Shelly's Frankenstein. He is a young Swiss boy who grew up in Geneva. He loved reading the works written ancient alchemists. He is an ambitious man who has a passion for pursuing scientific knowledge to a greater level. His quest for knowledge is unquestioning. Shelly uses his character to depict a man who has shown a progressive element of science due to his rationality and persistent inquiry of knowledge. Victor appears to be optimistic in science. He creates a lot of knowledge that would lead to the notion that science can explain what can appear unexplainable which can change life to be interesting. While that brief can sound like Victor might have been a good guy, there are much more instances his behaviour became more evil than good. This paper is going to prove that Victor was not a good guy by establishing the bad character traits those he portraits in the novel.
Victor is selfish. While in his pursuit of acquiring scientific knowledge, he makes a mistake of failing to address the consequences that could accrue from his experiments. His pride makes him create things for which he cannot take full responsibility for their actions (Graham 48). All he is interested in is quenching his thirst for scientific knowledge but as to whether his actions were dangerous for other humans or not was part of his problem. This is selfish behaviour. Were it not for his selfishness, Victor would have come forward to admit what he had created which could consequently save the life of Justine out of the false accusation. He, instead, opts to remain quite so as to preserve his freedom yet he knew very well that it was the monster that killed his younger brother and not anything to do with Justine as was alleged.
Victor shows an egotistic behaviour throughout the novel. It is observed when he leaves his family to embark on his task of creating life. He left home primarily to study science at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. It is noted that he used to keep a good correspondence with the family until when his task of creating a life came into his mind. It is at this time that he began to neglect the family members (Ginn 10). His mother had died only a week to his departure to Germany for studies. This tells us that the family was still at grief moments and therefore it was not good for him to deprive the family members love and support to heal from the loss and turn into creating something that would even turn out to be dangerous as it did. It is clear that his father had expressed his worries to him if the correspondence was lost. The father told him that he would be further hurt if he will not get in touch with the family (Shelley 53)
His egotistic behaviour even becomes clearer after the murder of his younger brother as a result of his creation. He knew that Justine was innocent. Justine was an adopted daughter who did not deserve to go through such harassment. He decides to keep quite instead of revealing the truth that would set Justine free. He claims that he was willing to confess that the monster was his creation and that it has led to the death of his brother. He does not confess this because he was ashamed of his experiment that failed. As mentioned earlier, Victor was a selfish guy who would rather protect his freedom at the expense of others (Bloom 36) .
The self-centeredness is also seen when the monster threatens him that he would join him in his wedding, (Shelly 163). The monster had promised that it would disappear from the world of human habitats if he could get a woman of his image. Victor had the ability to create. He also knew the consequences of having the monster on the human habitats. He knew that the monster would harm his loved ones, but because he considered his self-interests in the wedding that he did not want to be interrupted with by the monster, he decides to refuse. He in fact, for this reason, decides to misinterpret the monster words for killing him during the wedding. His egocentric nature makes him take the threats as were directed towards his life.
Victor is irresponsible. He is ...