Insert Interesting and Creative Title From the moment Victor Frankenstein creates a being that he neglects to even name, the creation is left to live and grow alone and feared by man. Victor hates the being for his existence, and the being hates Victor for bringing him into existence in addition to his refusal to help ease his anguish from constant isolation. In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s creation acts as a mere doppelganger of Frankenstein himself, and both characters rely on the existence of the other to keep themselves alive; their only motivation to continue to live is their desires to seek revenge on the other. There are many times where Victor himself uses language that would suggest his creation is rather…show more content… In saying so, the creation promises Victor that should he be left alone without a companion forever, his heart which longed benevolence would simply become one that “malicious” as a result of being “shunned and hated by all mankind”(102). When Frankenstein later makes the decision to create a female being when he rips the female being apart, “The wretch saw me [Frankenstein] destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew”(119). By doing so, Frankenstein has literally ripped apart the creation’s one desire in life, and in doing so, replaces that desire with revenge. As a result of his anguish, the creation goes on to kill Frankenstein’s best friend, and ultimately kills Elizabeth as well, who, “alone had the power to draw me [Victor] from these fits [of insanity]”(137). Elizabeth was like the female companion that the creation sought, and by killing her, the creation has managed to cause Victor to feel the same level of anguish he felt the night Frankenstein ripped apart the body of the female being. This in turn causes Victor to also seek revenge on the creation as a replacement to his desire for his wife. Victor recounts, “revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it modelled my feelings, and allowed me to be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion”(145). Thus both beings become incapable of living without the existence of the other; for without the existence of the other, their desires for revenge would prove futile, and their will to live would cease to
