In FRANKENSTEIN, Robert Walton, the narrator, is introduced as an excited, young scientist, on a ship to explore the North Pole. On the way, the crew sees a man chasing a monster-like creature on a sled. The man comes on the ship and tells the story. He is Victor Frankenstein, part of the Frankenstein family. He was also an excited, young scientist and made a live, monster out of dead body parts so ugly he abandoned his own creation. The monster is found to have killed many Frankensteins, because everyone hates him for his looks, even though he tries being kind. He kills more people after Victor doesn't create him a female mate. The monster helped a poor family secretly, but when the family saw him, they moved. When he kills Victor's wife, Victor starts chasing the monster, until he ends up on Robert's ship. Victor then dies from old age. Robert and the crew then see the monster crying beside Victor, saying that he always pitied him. The creature then commits suicide. Robert and the crew agree to turn the ship and head back.
A novel’s tragic scenes and climaxes are caused by more than one; while one character might be the antagonist creating tragedy, another might be the one who made the antagonist to do such a thing. The bad guys, or antagonists of a novel are either created to be unloved by people or are motivated by one to perform bad schemes. In the novel, while the monster is the main antagonist who kills people, Victor, his creator, is mainly the one causing him to murder people. Victor out of curiosity created a being out of dead people’s body parts, but after realizing how ugly the monster he created, he abandoned his own creation. The monster was hated by everyone, even though he tried being a good person. Victor is just like God, creating life; he has the capability to create another creature. Just like a parent, after creating a baby, the baby should be loved, cared for, and happy. But instead, Victor only runs away from his creation and abandons it. Parents should never abandon their children because they are ugly, not smart, or not perfect. Victor is a major example of one who doesn’t care about one’s creation. In the end, he only loses all his loved ones. While one antagonist might be the one causing all the tragedy and holds the blame, another really makes that antagonist such a person.
Scientific exploration is the experiments that curious scientists or people make to find out more about the relativity of science. However, once people really dig deep into the form of science, they are sucked into the subject and experiment more and more without even thinking of the consequences and reality. In the novel, the author highlights two main characters who were extremely into science that they don’t care at all about the reality, only about experimenting. Robert Walton is seen to be young student, just like the past Victor, who ventures into the North Pole without whatsoever information about the area. Victor is a bright student who loves studying physics and science, and is so into the subject he manages to create life by sewing together dead body parts. However, in the process of making the monster, he didn’t think about the reality, consequences, and what comes next after finishing the project. He was too deep into the experiment to care about anything else. Some people have the spirit of a scientist; they are tough, persevering, curious, and a bit ambitious, just like Victor and Captain Walton. But there is also a dark side of science, the side where one gets too hooked in that they end up like Victor. Scientific exploration can be exciting and make up history, but there is also a dark side of it.
Revenge is an understandable cause of anger in the human society, just like how it is understandable in the monster itself. When the monster finally longs for revenge, he feels and knows that the society will never accept a monster like him into their world, so he decides to bring people what they brought him: suffering and pain. In the novel, revenge is seen as a strong plague that takes over anyone controlled by their anger. At first, the monster begins his life by being nice and warmhearted. But after being rejected and mistreated by his own creator, Victor, and then the family he secretly helped, the De Laceys, he started to understand that he will never be accepted into the human society, and can only be that ugly monster everyone despises. Revenge can be brought forth from one person to another, like a contagious plague that can kill. When the monster desired revenge and murdered many from Victor’s family, Victor himself got consumed by revenge, and started madly chasing the monster. The desire for revenge makes people turn into monsters themselves, who do not care about destroying their own kind.
FRANKENSTEIN introduces two curious scientists with big dreams, Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein. Victor creates a monster, only to abandon it. The monster is rejected by everyone and murders many from the Frankenstein family, and is chased by Victor all the way near the North Pole. While many tragedies are blaimed by the antagonist causing them, there are also characters who created the antagonist, and made the antagonist become such a person. Although scientific exploration could be an exciting subject, there is a dark side to it. Scientist are curious, tough, and ambitious, and are easily hooked into experimenting so deep they ignore the reality and consequences. Revenge is just like a contagious plague consuming everyone controlled by anger, from the antagonist, the monster, to even the main character, Victor Frankenstein.
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