He anxiously wants to experience it in his own hands. .
Immortality is not Victor's personal interest, but the interest of human beings. "The masters of the sciences ought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand. (27)- In Shelley's story, Victor is not only a mad character, but also a symbol of the madness caused by humans' desire to achieve of immortality. From before till now, human beings have never stopped seeking the way of immortality. Victor's desire to create the monster is not a exception, but a desire common to the human mind. Therefore, Shelley shows that Victor's desire to create the monster is an example of curiosity to all humans.
As the monster is a creation of Victor, the monster has many similarities with human. "Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam,"" (66) said the monster. As God created Adam in God's own image, the monster has many similarities with humans. "As I read, however I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar I sympathized with, and partly understood them."" The most obvious similarity the monster has is his curiosity inherits from his creator. "What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?-(86) The monster has always asked himself. By knowing language from the family who lived in the forest, he is able to find his own origin. As we notice the question the monster has been seeking is also the question humans have been seeking for thousand years in human history: evolutionism, and anthropogenesis, etc. learning the speech, notice other creature in nature, thinking of his own origin, there are also the phylogeny of human being. .
Both of Victor and the monster have been punished by their curiosity. While he was conversing about the death William his little brother, Victor remarks that his creation brings all the suffering to his life. "I consider the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and force to destroy all that was dear to me.
Ugliness is such a hard word to define. What is ones understanding of ugliness? Is it a bruised, crippled, marked or deformed being? Maybe physical ugliness is a reflection of what you think of things and how you see them? In the Webster dictionary the word ugly is defined to be "Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive and deformed." ...