Character Of Victor Frankenstein

1. Character of Victor Frankenstein
• Name :- Rathod Nikita P.
• Roll No :- 23
• Enrollment No :- 2069108420190038
• Semester :- M.A. Semester :- 2
• Year :- 2018-2020
• Paper No :- 5 ( The Romantic Literature )
• Email-id :- nikitarathod0101@gmail.com
• Submitted To :- S.B. Gardi Department Of English,
Maharaja Krishankumarsinhji Bhavanagar
University

2. Frankenstein is a novel written by
Marry Shelley.
• Victor is a main character of the novel.
• He was born in Geneva.
• He is an
ambitious ,
intelligent and
hardworking
Scientist.

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• He is completely obsessed with the concept of
reanimation or reawakening the dead, which is
just what he does create life from a corpse , and
it pretty much ruins his life.
• Victor
Frankenstein
is a young man
Of Romantic
Age.

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• He wants to do something new. That’s why he
chooses science.
• He wanted to study the secrets of many
sciences.
• He takes a great interest in observing man and
in trying to learn more about his soul.
• He was interested in mystery.
• One day , a thunder storm struck the town

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and when the lightning flashed, he saw a large tree
burnt up and reduced to thin pieces of wood. He
wanted to find out the mystery of this.
• So he became interested in the laws of electricity
and mathematics.
• The first professor whom he met at the university
was Mr. Krempe, whom he taught natural
sciences to Frankenstein. He was rough in
manner, but totally devoted to his science.

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• Then Mr. Waldman was the professor who
taught him chemistry. He was a sweet natured
man in his fifties and praised the modern
sciences.
• Professor Waldman inspired Frankenstein to
invent something for the benefit of mankind.
• He advised Frankenstein to study all branches
of natural sciences including Mathematics.

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• He became deeply interested in the various
sciences and read widely.
• As the time passed he was especially
attracted to the mystery of the human body.
• He has many questions in his mind, like What
power was it that gave life?
Where is the force, which gives life to the body?
• He wants find out the answers of these
questions.

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• He wants to create human body in his laboratory.
• He wants to know
the secrets of human
life.
• He was eager to
know everything.
• He was curious.
• He wants to
become a creator.

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• That’s why he went to the grave yards in search
of different parts of the human body like bones,
skull , hair etc. he collects the body parts.
• It was very difficult task putting together the very
thin veins and nerves of the human body , fixing
the bones, the cell and other tiny parts.
• He worked for days and nights for his creation
and he did not even notice when the seasons
changed.

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• He forgets everything .
• He is busy to
create human
Body , he forgets
himself.
• He lost contact
of family and
friends because
of his creation.

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• He creates human body. But it looks like a
monster .
• Monster is 8 feet
long, with the help
of science he gives a
life to monster.
• Because of his ugly
look and huge body
Victor and people
does not accepts him.

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• Monster wants love and support. But because
of his ugly look nobody accepts him.
• That’s why he is alone. He feels loneliness.
• Then he learns many thing. And he reads
paradise lost , and he reads the diary of victor.
• And then he knew everything.
• He decides to takes revenge. And then he kills
many persons who belongs to victor’s family

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• Victor loves Elizabeth. Then he kills Elizabeth.
• Victor becomes alone.
• Monster wants female monster. But victor denies
to crates female monster. And that’s why monster
kills Elizabeth.
• In the whole story monster wants love and
support. But in story he does not get love and
support. And that’s why he became cruel and kills
many innocent people.
• Then at the end of the story victor also dead.

14. Conclusion……
• Frankenstein is the perfect tragic hero , or
character who is doomed to suffer due to his
own actions. Victor is selfish.
• He questions authority , and everything
surrounding him. He is highly intelligent ,
caring , and actually a good person , but it was
his ambition and God complex which
ultimately drove him to ruin.