Frankenstein's Theme: Fate vs. Free-will
Mary Shelley discusses many important themes in her famous novel Frankenstein. She presents these themes through the characters and their actions, and many of them represent occurrences from her own life. Many of the themes present debatable issues and her thoughts on them. There are more than five significant themes appear in the writing such as creation, danger of sciences, and alienation. Yet, the most important theme that I have found in the novel is fate vs. free will. People believe that things happen the way it is because of their fate, so they do things as they wish. Then destiny is just something people use to blame for when they do things wrong.Shelley discussed in the novel about fate and free will through the main character, Victor Frankenstein. In the writing, Victor is the one who succeeds in creating a "human" life form. Since the beginning Victor is very interested in science, and none of his family members say anything about his attraction. Due to his curiosity over the sciences, he has stated that the fate is already set him to find out about the myth. Therefore, it isn't the choice that he has picked to do so. "...Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruc
At the end, Victor died where the creature is long gone. He believed that the villagers act toward him in a mean ways because of his fate that makes him has outrages look, which scare people off. Victor's dream of his beautiful creature has been destroyed when he sees the result. but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart" (Shelley, 56) After he recognized his creature's appearance, he abandons it and becomes ill. " This scene presents that he just followed his free will, but when it comes to obligation he blames on fate. Victor Frankenstein's actions were doomed from the start. He also succeeds in removing the only powers that women had, as well as stripping God from his role and these are all his choices. He is crush by his lose and decided to hunt his own creature to the ends of the earth. Once the monster knows about Victor's refusal, he retaliates by killing Elizabeth, who is Victor's female companion, in an eye-for-an-eye kind of way. I has selected his features as beautiful. After all, the novel has shown that people choose to do whatever they feels like, but when the conclusion doesn't come out in the way they wanted, they would blame on fate/destiny just like the creature and Victor in the writing.
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