Theme Of Obsession In Frankenstein

Frankenstein, a novel first published in the year 1818, stands as the most talked about work of Mary Shelley’s literary career. She was just nineteen years old when she penned this novel, and throughout her lifetime she could not produce any other work that surpasses this novel in terms of creativity and vision. In this novel, Shelley found an outlet for her own intense sense of victimization, and her desperate struggle for love. Traumatized by her failed childbirth incidents, troubled childhood, and scandalous courtship, many of Shelley’s life experiences can be seen reflected in the novel. When discussing the character and development of the monster, Shelley launches an extensive discussion on the

This novel reflects Shelley’s own childhood, which consisted of her feeling obligated to rebel against her own father’s wishes and his choice for her marriage. Frankenstein is a way for Shelley to tell her own experiences with parental conflict and how she feels she was affected by her demanding father and the environment she grew up in, by comparing herself to Victor’s monster. Shelley analyzed her own characteristics, and the characteristics of her father, and placed them within Victor and the

Victor, Victor, Victor for once it’s shouldn’t be all about you! Novelist, Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein a unnatured and secrecy has been taken a part of something that Victor can get out of. His obsession of creating life out of the lifeless which not only walks but teaches his self how to talk is everything. Mary Shelley is one clever lady. She uses a letter which Victor’s writing but, as the time passes on Walton finishes the letter as Victor’s on his death bed. In this novel about him (Victor) hiding his addiction of old and new science attempting to create a creature, Shelley highlights secrecy and guilt to show that with hiding his addiction nothing good every comes out when you don’t speak

In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, ‘Frankenstein’, a recurring motif of ambition and the quest for knowledge is present among the characters of Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton and the creature. Victor’s obsessive ambition is his fatal flaw, ruining his life and leading to the murder of his loved ones and eventually his own death. Robert Walton shares a similar ambition

Victor Frankenstein was obsessed with knowledge, and thought knowledge was the key to unlocking nature and become a pioneer in science and challenging God. “I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature” (Shelley, Frankenstein, 21). Victor always had to push boundaries, and his passion drove him closer to science and immorality and farther from his family and friends. Once Victor sees his abomination animated, his potential come alive, he wishes for nothing more than if it had never happened. He moves on to a new obsession – fleeing his past. It consumes him and his health.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, illustrates an interesting story focusing in on many different themes, but what most readers may miss, is the similarities between Victor Frankenstein and the creature he created. As the story develops, one may pick up on these similarities more and more. This is portrayed through their feelings of isolation, thirst for revenge, their bold attempt to play god, and also their hunger to obtain knowledge. These are all displayed through a series of both the actions and the words of Frankenstein and his creature.

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is book about the importance of human relationships and treating everyone with dignity and respect. The main character of the book is Victor Frankenstein who is a very intelligent man with a desire to create life in another being. After he completes his creation, he is horrified to find that what he has created is a monster. The monster is the ugliest, most disgusting creature that he has ever seen. Victor being sickened by his creation allows the monster to run off and become all alone in the world. Throughout Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the theme of human relationships to illustrate the bond that man has with other beings and the need for love and affection. The importance of human relationships

The concept of obsession, and the consequences that this state of mind may reap, is addressed rather thoroughly throughout both Frankenstein and The Poisonwood Bible, serving as a theme that drives much development in regards to plot and character. One may draw many fascinating parallels between the characters Victor, the protagonist of Frankenstein, and Nathan, the patriarch of the Price family in The Poisonwood Bible: both characters are largely motivated by an obsession that leaves in its wake many dire consequences, driving along the plot of the novel. Victor’s fixation with his scientific ambition, and with unravelling the very secrets of life themselves, develops into a highly unhealthy obsession that reaps the most dire of consequences.

Throughout the novel Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, the creature is subjected to countless acts of violence and rejection. For a monster to develop, one must have been formerly exploited either by an individual or their society. The creature is not only a physical product of science, but his atrocious behavior is also an explicit result of Victor’s actions toward him. The creature was not born a monster, but slowly morphed into one as he experiences violence and rejection from his society.

    In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein suffers an extreme psychological crisis following his violation of what is considered a fundamental biological principle.  His creation of life undermines the role of women in his life and the role of sexuality, and allows existing misogynist and homosexual tendencies to surface.  Victor represses what he has uncovered about himself, and it merges into a cohesive whole in his psyche that becomes projected on the instrument of revelation, the monster.

Perhaps the most interesting event in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the perverse dream that Victor Frankenstein experiences after he brings the creature to life. Examination of the dream through Freudian theories on sexual motivation and the Oedipal Complex provide insight to the actions and character of Mary Shelley's protagonist. Further examination also reveals the reason for Victor's actions and character and how each affects his relationship with those closest to him.

In Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, the monster which is created by Victor Frankenstein acts as a mirror to reflect and bring out Victor’s hidden thoughts. In a particular study called Frankenstein – A Critical Study from a Freudian Perspective, it argues that Victor on the surface seems to be a “healthy man” (Johnson 1). In fact, he unconsciously has many dangerous thoughts, and the creation of the monster brings out those thoughts and finally leads to his failure (Johnson 2). In specific, present paper will analysis Victor’s characters by examining his intention and decisions toward the monster he creates, and the paper is intended

Though there are many themes throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, these 3 major themes are continuous in the novel from beginning to end. The first is the innumerable concept of Monstrosity. Once Victor Frankenstein sought out to create a monster from human body parts, the reader can observe that he accommodates insanity. After finishing his creation, he neglected it, what he created became him. Victor was lonely and cast out from society. Loneliness provoked the characters to partake in actions that were only to destruct and destroy. As a result, Frankenstein became dangerously lonely and neglected and searched for revenge no matter the consequence.

Mary Shelly wrote a novel called Frankenstein, showing the beauty and terror of scary stories. Mostly, Victor Frankenstein created this monster, which left him suffering the pain of his monster’s actions and enduring the internal madness in his heart. As a result, Victor died with a pain of misery and destruction in his own heart. The connection between suffering and Victor’s life showed a much darker side, relating to Mary Shelly. Mostly, she found herself using Frankenstein as a way to display her own consciousness through three narrators: Victor, the Creature, and Captain Walton. In addition, Mary Shelly displayed the dysfunction of social relationships where one party lack understanding of the other party; as a result, one person will