Victor Frankenstein attains the unattainable by creating life from death. However, in his effort to seek out gratification from his creation, he only finds death and destruction. In the novel Frankenstein, Victor is a naïve young adult who desires the power that knowledge gives, but does not stop to ponder the consequences. Victor is able to sacrifice his own life in order to gain knowledge in the natural sciences, wishes to glorify himself without understanding the ramification of it, and takes no notice into the chaos that his creation is spreading throughout his family.
Victor’s life started out quiet and simple. Alphonse Frankenstein was a magistrate, and Caroline Frankenstein loved to travel. No one in Victor’s family was interested in science; Victor even tells Walton about his father’s distaste when he states, “My…show more content… Victor becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life, but the idea of creating life and regenerating life fall into two entirely separate hemispheres of the unknown. Alike Prometheus, Victor wishes to give something to the human race that would make life itself much easier. Victor wishes to rid the world of death, and even tells Walton that he wants to get rid of diseases when he says, “Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend discovery if I could banish disease from human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death” (Shelley 42). Victor believes that if he can achieve these tasks, he will be granted everlasting glory. However, Victor’s creation turns into more of a monster, and his glory is banished as his newly made creation of life tears up everything he has grown to love.
Though Victor does not understand it, his thirst for knowledge has affected his family and his relationship towards them. In the beginning of the novel Frankenstein, Victor tells Walton that his childhood was incredibly fortunate. He tells
