Which of the following themes are the most developed in the novel?
As Victor attempts to access the secret of life, the pursuit of knowledge is at the center of the movie.Robert Walton is attempting to reach the North Pole.This ruthless pursuit of knowledge, of the light, proves dangerous, as Victor's act of creation eventually results in the destruction of everyone dear to him, and Walton finds himself perilously trapped between sheets of ice.While Victor was driven to his death by his hatred of the monster, Walton learns from his example how destructive the thirst for knowledge can be.
The possibility of spiritual renewal is offered by the sublime natural world, which was embraced by Romanticism in the late eighteenth century to mid-nineteenth century.After the deaths of William and Justine, Victor was depressed and felt responsible.After a winter of cold and abandonment, the monster feels lighter as spring arrives.The influence of nature on mood is evident throughout the novel, but for Victor, the natural world's power to console him waned when he realized that the monster will haunt him no matter where he goes.The symbolic backdrop for Victor's fight against the monster is nature, in the form of the Arctic desert.
The monster is the center of the action in the novel.The monster is rejected by society.The unnatural manner of his creation, which involves the secret animation of a mix of stolen body parts and strange chemicals, results in his monstrous appearance.He is a product of dark, supernatural workings.The knowledge that Victor used to create the monster is only one of a number of monstrous entities in the novel.One can argue that Victor is a kind of monster because of his selfishness and ambition.Ordinary on the outside, he may be the true "monster" inside, as he is eventually consumed by an obsessive hatred of his creation.The novel is described by many critics as monstrous, a combination of different voices, texts, and tenses.
Victor thinks of science as a mystery to be probed and its secrets jealously guarded.He considers M. Krempe, a model scientist, to be an uncouth man, but deeply embedded in the secrets of his science.The monster is forced into seclusion because of his grotesque appearance.Their tragic relationship is chronicled in the letters of the final confessor.The monster takes advantage of Walton's presence to forge a human connection, hoping desperately that at last someone will understand, and empathise with, his miserable existence.
There are letters, notes, journals, inscriptions, and books in the novel, sometimes nestled inside each other, other times simply referred to or quoted.The love story of Felix and Safie, as well as references to Paradise Lost, fit inside the monster's story.The various writings serve as concrete manifestations of characters' attitudes and emotions, and this is an important aspect of the narrative structure.The monster's development is influenced by language.The monster learns to speak and read when he hears and watches peasants.Along the chase into the northern ice, he leaves notes for Victor in trees and rocks, turning nature into a writing surface.
Family relationships are central to human life.The DeLaceys are perfect to the point of idealization, and most of the families that appear in the novel.Most of the book's horror and suffering is caused by characters losing their connection to their families or not having a family at all.The Monster blames his suffering on the fact that he doesn't have a family.The Monster has a family, in that he is his father.Before creating the Monster, he imagined that no father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as he should deserve.The Monster and Frankenstein are trying to destroy each other in the novel.
The primary cause of evil and the punishment for it is social alienation.The Monster says that he became a murderer because his protectors had left and the only link that held him to the world had been broken.His murders increased his feelings of revenge and hatred.
Alienation causes him to make bad decisions and he is also punished for them.His laboratory feels like a cell once he has created the Monster, because he is working alone in a "solitary chamber." Being solitary has caused his ambition to grow dangerously, but this isolation is already its own punishment.
The character of Satan in Paradise Lost is both a crime and a punishment.The novel suggests that the root of alienation from other people is from oneself.As long as a person feels they have self-worth, they will maintain.The Monster doesn't feel welcome in human society because he looks monstrous.He first recognizes that he is ugly not through someone else's judgement but through his own: "when I viewed myself in a transparent pool, I was filled with the bitterest sensations."
The Monster is alone in the world at the end of the novel.His self-hatred is complete, and so is his lack of respect for himself.The monster declares his intention to kill himself while the man drives himself to death.