Retailing story - Essay Example

Man’s breaking his bond with nature came about when Victor decided to play god and deprived nature of its natural prerogative to create life. Victor wanted to separate himself from the rest of nature by validating to himself that he can be god through the creation of another life which is a validation of his superiority compared to other men. In today’s context, this could be taken as Victor’s pride that he is better than everyone else of which almost all societies and culture suffer. When Victor came to life, he became the personification of man’s desire to be god which the product of such attempt attests how vile the idea is.

The monster, being an assortment of parts of men, is an unhappy product of man’s inexorable nature and its heart is “a collection of the emotions that he has to be bear throughout his strange life” (Kessler 87). It has no “center” or a soul because it failed to grasp the breadth of human experience that includes joy, happiness, ecstasy, that makes one a truly human being. The monster had only a glimpse of hope of what it is like to be compassionate when the family cottagers took him in.

“Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the younger cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion. They performed towards him every little office of affection and duty with gentleness, and he rewarded them by his benevolent smiles” (Shelley 82). But even that hazy idea of hope and compassion was immediately extinguished when the same family who took him in drove him away. One can only imagine what the monster felt when the only positive experience he had was taken away from him leaving him hanging and in pain.

In sum, the tale was an articulation of man’s arrogance and the consequential pain and suffering because of it which is a theme that is universal to all culture which explains why Frankenstein is still told today not only in our books, but also in our movies, plays and even comics. II. Retelling the story Shelley’s novel Frankenstein reveals the flaws of human character with the character of Victor Frankenstein. It revealed man’s tendency to become arrogant and to act like God when he already knows so much.

When Victor assented to the monster that he will create him a partner, he already assumed to have God like capabilities with what he knows about science. As it was wrong in the beginning, a series of tragedy followed beginning with the murder of Victor’s bride Elizabeth during their wedding night. Victor was inconsolable and filled with revenge as what the monster did to his bride that he became preoccupied about chasing the monster to avenge Elizabeth’s death and became a figurative monster himself.

But since he does not have the physical prowess to overcome Frankenstein, Victor created another formula to make him a greater monster to defeat Victor and avenge his wife. He also had the impression that Frankenstein must have a good time destroying everything he touches because he is invincible and therefore cannot be punished with its consequences. So he made a formula to the effect of Mr. Hyde only ten times stronger to make him stronger than Frankenstein. The formula was so potent that when it was injected to Victor, he became uglier than Frankenstein and his physical state became permanent.

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