Vengeance in Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein

If you had listened to the voice of conscience , and heeded the stings of remorse , before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity , Frankenstein would yet have lived (p .202 , said Walton to the monster seeing him weep in front of Victor 's corpse . Then , how unvengeful is Walton in trying to help Victor in tracking and hunting down the Being , Victor 's creation

Frankenstein : or modern Prometheus is the creation of Mary Shelly br

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tragic victim and the arch villain does not answer many questions but helps readers pose several questions to themselves

Vengeance , its genesis and its consequences are the primary s dwelt with supreme literary control in Frankenstein

Revenge can be defined as a desire to inflict harm , mostly similar to what is being suffered by the avenger on the person /s perceived to have precipitated it . In human history and in literature there have been examples of revenge , which have fascinated the attention of the readers and scholarly for very many years . However Mary Shelly succeeds in depicting the genesis of all consuming revenge to be a by product of good intentions gone wrong . This is the story of mankind , where , in more than one instance the avenger and the avenged were related by ties of love or any other tender emotion before Revenge takes centre stage and Shelly succeeds in convincing the readers that revenge is generally precursor for destruction on a complete and depressing basis

The monster has several seemingly legitimate complaints against Victor His creator deserted him at birth , and created him in a manner that his humane nature was invisible to all who he wanted to befriend and all that was visible and glaring was the grotesque monstrosity which instantly evoked fear , malice and hatred without assigning reason . When the being argued with Victor to create for him a mate , Victor first agreed and then wavered in his sympathies and efforts to fulfill the monster 's pathological and highly justified need for a mate , as he chose the well being of human beings above the needs of his creation . This lack of understanding from his very creator plants the seeds of vengeance in the being against its own creator . He wants to inflict on Victor , the same fate of being without loved ones or losing them to an avoidable situation and thereby appreciating the predicament of the being , which he considers is entirely Victor 's fault

Instead of facing the consequences of his creation , the guilt laden Victor tries to deny any form of justice to the Being and considers his annihilation as the only recourse . The ensuing tussle is where the Being inflicts the greatest wounds on his creator by causing the death of Victor 's friend and confidant , wife and father 'from that moment [he] declared everlasting war against the species and more than all , against [Frankenstein] who had formed [him] and sent...