What does Victor wish for while imprisoned? At the end of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein dies wishing that
he could destroy the Monster he created
. The Monster visits Frankenstein's body. He tells Walton that he regrets the murders he has committed and that he intends to commit suicide.
What does the monster beg Victor do?
Victor sees the monster's point of view and agrees to
create a mate for the monster
. The monster tells Victor:”You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.” Victor refuses and then later relents to the monster's wishes.
What was Victor seized by?
What was Victor “seized by”?
Guilt and remorse
.
Is Frankenstein a real name?
Frankenstein Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic):
habitational name from any of several places called Frankenstein in Saxony Hesse the Palatinate and Silesia
.
What does Victor do during the trial?
The trial for Justine Moritz begins. Victor
suffers silent torture
while the entire scene plays out in front of him but he can do nothing to stop it. Justine carries herself calmly at the trial, answering the charges and getting a sterling defence from Elizabeth.
What does Victor do after his recovery? What is Clerval's “plan of life”? Following his recovery, Victor
makes visits to Waldman and Krempe
. Clerval's plan is to study languages of the Orient, a plan which Victor finds appealing as well.
Alphonse tells Victor that he owes himself to
seek out happiness
“for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.”
One of the deepest horrors of this novel is his implicit goal of creating a society for men only: Victor's creature is male;
he refuses to create a female
; there is no reason why the race of immortal beings he hopes to propagate should not be exclusively male.
Victor becomes obsessed with
the idea of creating the human form and acts upon it
. Immediately after creating the monster, Victor falls into a depression and fear. He leaves the university and returns home to his family, only to find tragedy there.
He laments that he did not know Victor, who remains on the brink of death, in better days. One morning, Walton's crewmen enter his cabin and beg him
to promise that they will return to England if they break out of the ice in which they have been trapped ever since the night they first saw the monster's sledge
.
the creature wants Victor to
live and suffer
. He believes that taking away everything he loved is more painful than death. This shows a difference in character because he now wants Victor to feel the same suffering he did.
Firstly, Victor Frankenstein is guilty because
he failed to contain the monster
. When Victor created the monster, he immediately left his laboratory without properly caring for the monster.
In Frankenstein, the deaths of his loved ones leaves Victor with an unbearable feeling of guilt, for it is
because of his creation of the monster that leads to their murders
.
That's the name of its creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, from the nineteenth-century novel written by Mary Shelley. This
fictitious doctor, one of the first “mad scientists,” was based on real-life researchers and their experiments
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| Elizabeth Lavenza | Gender Female | Spouse Victor Frankenstein | Nationality German and Italian |
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Justine confesses to the murder of William, but secretly tells both Elizabeth and Victor that she is innocent and only confessed in order to gain salvation. Justine is executed for her “guilt”.
William, Justine, and Henry
— they all died by my hands.” An emphasis on “my hands” can be made because it was Victor's hands that created the monster, although the monster uses his own hands to strangle his victims. Elizabeth's letter to Victor questions whether the two will ever be married as promised.
How does Victor's father react to the news about Elizabeth?
Victor's father dies of sorrow
after he hears about Elizabeth.
As the story progresses, Victor's initial emotional reactions to seeing the creature come to life—
disgust and horror
—are substantiated by the creature's actions. Victor learns that the creature has killed his young brother William, whose death is then blamed on a family friend, Justine. But Victor knows the truth.
