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 destruction" (Shelley, 41) After he did find himself an excuse, he continued to find the solution about human body, life and death. "...my attention was the structure of the human frame, and indeed, and animal endured with life...did the principle of life proceed?" (Shelley, 50) According to his curiosity about life and human body, it caused him want to create a new life in order to satisfied his inquiring mind; however, he has set his creature to be more supernatural: very muscular, strong and brilliant. "...my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature; that is to say about eight feet in height...Life and death appeared to me idea bounds, which I should f...