Lesson Of Yoga
Essay by 24 • December 13, 2010 • 785 Words (4 Pages) • 1,378 Views
" When I thought of him, I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly made." A quote from Frankenstein a book wrote by Mary Shelley in 1818. Victor, the name of the character who said the quote and the cause for everything that goes wrong in the novel. Victor shuts out the rest of the world as he works on finding the secret to life. Even though he had good intensions in mind he's still the person to blame for what happens because he created, abandoned, and never stood up for the monster.
Hiding away in his apartment where no one else can see him working, he envisions the creation of a new race. Studying anatomy, how a body is built, perfecting what each professor had to teach him, and collecting enough body parts he created a horrifyingly ugly monster. "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body." "I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter." Victor meaning, until he figured out the secret of life, he wouldn't have been capable of being himself. Being dedicated to creating the monster, not knowing that once it comes alive it would cause so much trouble and be so horrifying. Seeing how hideous the monster actually is Victor tries to go in his room and go to sleep.
Waking up, with a ugly monster looming over his head Victor immediately evacuated his own premises abandoning the monster. Walking up and down in the utmost agitation, listening conscientiously, fearing each sound as if it was the monster hunting him down. One of the reasons why the monster was abandon by everybody was because of his outer appearance. Victor said that, "I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived." When Victor saw that, you might think he'd have a change of mind and destroy the monster instead of creating it. Therefore, once he created the monster it was his responsibility to raise it. Leaving the monster on his own, caused for him to learn many different ways of survival which is why I don't blame him for the things that happen. Even when the monster had good intensions because of his ugliness something bad happens. For example, the monster saves a drowning woman from the water and instead of getting an award he gets shot.
Knowing the innocents of Justine and the guiltiness of himself Victor never stands up to admit creating the monster that's committing the crimes. "While l
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