Frankenstein: Volume 3 Variation - Essay Example

In brief, Victor who is the creator of an evil creature now wants to get rid of him but he could not do so as the creature has constantly kept an eye on him. The creature wants Victor to create a female for him just like he created him joining pieces of several corpses. He gets threatening notes from the creature that in case of failure to do so; the creature will not let Victor marry Elizabeth. Victor has become the creature's "slave", and his life is entirely of the creature's design. It is no longer clear who is the creator, who the creation is. Victor, after experiencing several phases of fear and depression within him decides to fulfil the desire of the creature but Frankenstein is repulsed by the thought that the two monsters might beget children; thereby creating a new race that could ultimately destroy all humanity. Victor decides that unleashing such a bane upon mankind would be of the utmost selfishness and tears the half-finished creature (bride of creature) into pieces. The creature upon knowing about the broken promise intimidate Victor with a chilling promise that the creature would be with him on his wedding night. The creature murdered his friend ‘Henry’ and Victor was held responsible for his murder. Victor lies in a delirium of fever and confusion. When Victor finally emerges from his delirium he immediately asks for the safety of Elizabeth. His father's presence slowly begins to regain his health and after getting through such a dilemma, he marries Elizabeth but just before his wedding night, Elizabeth was murdered and ruined by the creature.

Mary Shelley wants the reader to realize that no human has the power to create another being and if it becomes possible, the resultant would be nothing but the evil who will, unlike humans not consider his creator to be his master. I, however, agree with the fact that only God has the power to create beings, therefore they could not threaten him.

I agree with the truth the writer wanted the reader to discover about human selfish nature because once a person becomes selfish, he percepts nothing but his solace of ego and mind which Victor does over here and later when he experienced mishaps of the first mistake he made, only then he turned not to think about himself but others as this quote suggests: “I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race”.

Victor, when created another half-creature realized: “I had resolved in my mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness”.

The line in the whole story which grabbed my attention was when Victor after tearing half-the she-bride of the creature, got a threat from the creature: “And then I thought again of his words- I will be with you on your wedding night”.

Some commentators have read the creature's promise "to be with Victor on his wedding night" as a sexual threat, a means of claiming Victor's body as well as his soul. I, too think the same as this was the threat, which turned Victor upside down and wanted to get rid of the creature before getting married (www.gradesaver.com).