... to any but a violent death."" This statement shows that Victor is driven by scientific success and not money or fame. In order to succeed in his quest, he completely devotes himself to his studies while attending university at Ingolstadt. He basically shuts out his family from his life while pursuing ... his studies. He is determined to create a perfect human being even if it means putting the rest of his life on hold for months or even year. Another way to learn more about a character is to examine the way they interact with others. Victor ... such infinite pains and care I had endeav...

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... obsolete alchemists, a background that serves him hardship when he attends university of Ingolstadt. After a lightning strike and learning about the power of nature he is anxious to pursue the knowledge of science. He was enthusiastic about learning the occult sciences until his father convinces him of the alchemists" trash. Victor's carefree childhood and eccentric adolescence are soon overtaken with great tragedy when ... his mother dies, which he sees as a prophecy of his future tragedies. Once moved to Ingolstadt, Victor shares the dreams of the alchemists, to infiltrate the secrets ...

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... . This dilemma burns inside of him throughout a major portion of the novel and begins to fill his life with guilt just as soon as Justine is accused of killing William. Victor begins feeling a sense of loneliness and guilt while at Ingolstadt beginning shortly after Justine and William are killed, up to his own death bed on the ship with Walton ... life in constant fear that his life and the life of others around him could abruptly come to an end. Victor Frankenstein begins his journey as he leaves home shortly after his mother has passed away. At Ingolstadt, a highly prestigious univers...

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... his perspectives and thoughts. Similar to the Congo in Heart of Darkness, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein possesses two settings that lead to conflict within the protagonist. Frankenstein's Ingolstadt University is a setting that leads to emotional conflict that the protagonist feels. Ingolstadt represents Victor Frankenstein's ill-willed ambitions, and serves as a place where he hopes to become a brilliant metaphycisist. It is also the setting where ... that symbolizes the childhood years and love of both Henry and Elizabeth that Victor cherishes. These central values void in Ingolstadt, w...

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... , akin to death, of the house of mourning, and rush into the thick of life"(50). Having never fully differentiated from his mother, Victor views his mother's death as his own. The moment Victor arrives at the University of Ingolstadt, he expresses "the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from ... develop himself in the linguistic/ symbolic order. Unable to fully function as a member of society, Victor struggles with primitive desires for his mother, and he feelings of being an incomplete being; not b...

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... venturing upon the task of creating a living thing. When he leaves his family with the intention of studying science at the university in Ingolstadt in Germany, he starts off by keeping regular correspondence with his family but when his interest in science develops into a hubris-like determination ... to create life out of inanimate matter, he starts to neglect them. Considering that his mother died just a week before he goes to Ingolstadt, this would be a particularly inappropriate time for him to deprive his family of his support and love. Before he departs to the university, ... th...

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... enthusiasms. (73) Frankenstein's education is based on Percy Shelley's; both were avid students of several noted medieval alchemists as were they equally fascinated with alchemy and chemistry. As Victor himself declares shortly after arriving at the University, "From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole ... occupation" (Frankenstein 48). By sending Victor to the University of Ingolstadt, Mary Shelley further signaled his association with the radical politics advocated by Percy Shelley. Ingolstadt was f...

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... and pushes him to succeed to the best he can be. Alphonse imposes that Victor further his education in Ingolstadt, so that he is well-educated. Victor unwilling to go to Ingolstadt angrily says "I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought ... it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country" (28). Fathers want what is best for their children, even if the child does not comply with them. Alphonse wants Victor ... For a child to really flourish, a father figure must be present in a...

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... the age of fifteen, he witnesses a bolt of lightening striking a tree. This inspires him to the study of natural phenomenon instead of natural philosophy. Victor's parents wish he would study at Ingolstadt, however; Elizabeth falls ill with scarlet fever before he leaves. Caroline, their mother, nurses Elizabeth back to health, but falls ill herself and dies. This leaves Elizabeth the duty to ... take care of the younger children, and places to hold on Caroline's wish for Elizabeth and Victor to get married. After the family gets over the loss of their mother, Victor departs for Ingolst...

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... his father, mother, and his brother William. His only real friends in Geneva, were: his best friend Henry Clerval, Clerval's girlfriend Justine, and Victor's girlfriend Elizabeth. Victor had never really been too interested in being a scientist, until two things happened. The first thing that happened, was that he saw a tree set ... scarlet fever. These two things made him want to study science, and develop new things in the scientific field. Victor then decided to move to Ingolstadt, and study at the University of Ingolstadt. He made great progress, and decided to further science, by bri...

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... ). In both Shelley's life and her novel Frankenstein, she and Elizabeth are rescued from unhappy homes and welcomed by more capable families. In the novel Frankenstein, the isolation experienced by Victor Frankenstein is also a theme of Shelley's life. Frankenstein enjoys spending time alone in pursuit of his unconventional interests. The protagonist spends many hours in nature, and after the death of ... his mother is sent away to the University of Ingolstadt (Shelley 40). In Ingolstadt, Frankenstein is entranced by his work and obsession with creating life so much so that he does not v...

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... as a mystery to be probed; its secrets, once discovered, must be jealously guarded. He considers M. Krempe , the natural philosopher he meets at Ingolstadt, a model scientist: "an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science." Victor's entire obsession with creating life is shrouded in secrecy, and his obsession with destroying the monster remains equally secret until Walton hears his ... into seclusion by his grotesque appearance. Walton serves as the final confessor for both, and their tragic relationship becomes immortalized in Walton's letters. In confessing all just b...

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... dream we get that information. Victors retelling of his dream is this: I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the fist kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features ... and sexual intercourse. One of the symbols for the phallis is a snake. I extended that symbol to include the graveworms that are mentioned in Victor's dream. The existence of this symbol led me to examine the possibility that sexual feelings may have caused this dream. The two characters t...

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... dream we get that information. Victors retelling of his dream is this: I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the fist kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features ... and sexual intercourse. One of the symbols for the phallis is a snake. I extended that symbol to include the graveworms that are mentioned in Victor's dream. The existence of this symbol led me to examine the possibility that sexual feelings may have caused this dream. The two characters t...

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... at home. He describes this creature as a large monster, and says it is very dangerous. Victor is a very smart man; he went to a top university called Ingolstadt, and studied philosophy and chemistry. Victor is horrified at his creation, and abandonees it to go home to Geneva. On his way home ... he receives news that his younger brother is dead. Victor immediately thinks that the monster is guilty, because the cause of death was strangling. When Victor ... Geneva there are few natural resources, so education is there pride and joy. Approximately 25 percent of the population works on mac...

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... be unsatisfied. However, those who cope with their pride will lift their heart, by putting their knowledge to use where it is needed. Victor Frankenstein's onward cadence towards perfecting a creature to which he believed would excel human characteristics, caused destruction upon his heart, abandoned all opportunity, ... sets their mind to one aspect and attempts to grow from it, they eventually become oblivious to many valuable opportunities. This standpoint which Victor set all of his focus towards, manipulated him until he was completely crazed. Not only did interaction with his love...

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... and rushes out of the house. He spends the night pacing in his courtyard. The next morning, he goes walking in the town of Ingolstadt, frantically avoiding a return to his now haunted apartment. He is later relieved to find that it appears that the monster is gone, but is ... found, he spies the monster lurking and becomes convinced that his creation is responsible for killing William. The next day, however, when he returns home, Victor learns that Justine has been accused of the murder. After the discovery of the body, a servant had found in Justine's pocket a picture of Caroline ... re...

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... electricity and scientific study. Science changed the way of thinking for the 1800's. The belief in scientific exploration and experimentation grew stronger than the belief of spiritual guidance. When Victor attends school in Ingolstadt, he meets two professors, M. Krempe and M. Waldman. Frankenstein listens in on Professor Waldman's lecture over philosophy, and he explains, "But these philosophers, whose hands ... animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption." (Shell...

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... case, it is very apparent that he feels like his mother had abandoned him. At this time, Victor starts to go a little bit insane. Victor then describes going off to college at the University of Ingolstadt. By the time he arrives, he is already very involved in ancient philosophy and science. Because ... of this fact, he is scoffed at by M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy. He doesn't take this criticism well and begins to feel contempt for the instructor. Later in his studies, Victor ... makes his drive to complete this project so intense. He also talks about how he would create ...

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... even stop to consider what his consequences of his actions might be. It didn't faze him that life and death are not to be tampered with. Victor, born and raised by his loving mother and father in Italy, he remained the only child for several years. "I was their plaything and their idol, ... acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.? He felt helpless and grief-stricken. Victor pursued going to the University of Ingolstadt, and their he became very knowledgeable. He stayed away from home for quite sometime. Victor studied natural philosophy and chemistry that was his soul...

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... "the physical secrets of the world." He wants to learn all he can about the how's and why's of the world. He attends the University of Ingolstadt, where he learns about modern science and, within a few years, masters all the his professors have to teach him. He becomes fascinated with the "secret ... on. Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice." Page 204 Walton remembers the words that the monster says to him over Victor's dead body, in his final letter to his sister. This eruption of angry self-pity as the monster questions the injustice of how he has ... to illustr...

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... the monster hoping the monster will resemble him and therefore hoping he will acquire a mate. Obviously the monster and Victor look nothing alike, putting Victor into a state of depression and fear. Victor created a hideously ugly creature, which draws an unwanted attention towards him. Being rejected by society and his creator ... the monster seeks a mate. Consequently both the monster and Victor share a common search for a relationship or a spouse. Victor and the monster both share the same emptiness, the same pain and suffering. The monster was created out of curiosity ... how to liv...

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... to replace; you can't have a stepmother because she will never be a replacement for an original mother. Nor can a mother be bought, but Victor uses his knowledge from Ingolstadt to create a being to fill in that missing figure. In the later part of the novel, the monster stumbles upon a family where he learns ... of a Milanese nobleman. Her mother was a German, and had died on giving birth"(34). The additional family member from early on might have given Victor the idea of bringing in his "own "family member when his mother passed away. Elizabeth was very precious to him and he cared fo...

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... stop him from doing so. Because of this and through his professor at Ingolstadt he becomes an expert in this field. Science is out of control because Victor tries to play God by trying to create life and ends up becoming a father to this monster. Victor does not realize his own limits and does inhumane things like digging up ... until after he is finished. Once he finishes he comes to realize what horrible creature he has created and that he should have never started on this. Victor is a human just like everyone else but he did not have anyone tell him no when he was younger so he was us...

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... Then back to Walton, with a few digressions from Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein in the form of letters. There are three main characters in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Victor Frankenstein is a young, innocent dreamer fascinated by science, but, over the course of the novel, he changes into a disillusioned, guilt-ridden man determined to destroy the fruits of his ... , cursed and told to go away. Robert Walton is a ship captain with an unnatural obsession with reaching the North Pole. He starts a meaningful, deep, loving friendship with Victor, but Victor suddenly...

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