Victor Frankenstein was a young man raised by a strict, educated family, of obvious wealth and privileges, since Victor was able to travel abroad to the University of Ingolstadt, rather than study at a simpler institution, Geneva.Victor's father was rather intrusive upon Victor's liberties as he expected superior diligence and effort in studies of "realistic value." The opposite would be the outdated books which Victor chose to indulge himself in, for instance, Albertus Magnus and Paracelus were inadequate for study in terms of use for studying in most fields of science in those times. Yet, Frankenstein entreated himself with both the old and new age of references and studies and became an expert of the knowledge he had obtained in college. However, the rather abrupt change in behavior and health alludes to the fact that the cause of the change was of hubris. Frankenstein, now preoccupied himself with an impossible task to anyone but him, which, with such ardent intentions and pursuit, spend the vast majority in the creation of life of a human being, which would soon afterwards terrify him, and regret would be his prime enemy.
The hubris found here numerous of times in this story suggested that Victor was ill both physically and mentally. Intuitively, most reading Victor's narrative would assume that he was a mad man born of ignorant suspicions. Yet, one can never discover what one wonders without pursuit of what is desired. Although Victor was successful in creating a living human being, it now terrorized himself and put him in a state of discomfort. I sensed a lot of imagery used by the author to convey a sense of anticipation, yet weariness, being that the process of Victor's reasoning and experimentation dragged on endlessly. Although, Frankenstein's pursuit in the eerie quest to do the supernatural, create an image of himself, seemed reckless, and a cause for his brief recession in his life. Because of this arrogance and dauntless courage, frustration, worry, and scoldings aroused from his family and friends who expected excellence from him, and a regular letter received by Victor to his family; particularly Elizabeth, his father, and Clerval. Frankenstein's faith and determination in the inevitable reemphasizes the theme for the quest of human meaning. What are Victor's true intentions in creating a human being? His arrogance towards this goal indicates his lack of knowledge in the Supreme Being overall, alluding to the fact that he is doing something that only God is bestowed with.
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