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I had desired it with an ardour1/16/2024 The monster is hideous and neglected, but that did not protect him from human emotion. Victor deprives the male creature from having anyone to love or care about because he is too blinded by his own regret and sin. “’ … race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror”’(Chapter 20). When Victor realized his second mistake and felt the remorse for all of the sin, he trashed the female creature. His remorse in this part of the book, not felt because he is making another creature for the creature he already detests, but is felt for the rest of the sin that has been committed since the day his creature came to life. Victor agreed, but soon realized he was making the same mistake again. The creature had a plan he wanted a female companion to share his lonely life with. So much so, that he was almost willing to do anything it took to get the monster to stay away from him. Victor loathes himself after the creation of the monster. The stress of hunting for his creature was the death of him, in the end. Frankenstein regretted what he has done so deeply that he gave up his life and traveled to the ends of the earth to destroy the thing he created. Avoiding his creation, however, only made the situation worse, as the monster prowled about, killing everyone close to Victor and wreaking havoc wherever he went. He is ashamed of what he has created and does not want to have anything to do with it. This feeling of remorse for creating something so grotesque sticks with Frankenstein up until his death at the end of the novel. “’I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart,’” (p.58). Upon gazing at his creation, Frankenstein almost instantly regrets ever having the idea. “It was already one in the morning the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…” (p. ![]() ![]() In the real world and in this particular piece of literature, remorse is incredibly powerful. ![]() “’You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been,’” (p.31), Frankenstein says to Robert Walton, offering a clear warning that correlates directly to the regret Victor feels for his sin. Self inflection was the name of the game. The literature, written for a contest, showcases the free thinking of that time and highlights the danger of thinking too recklessly. Remorse is a complex feeling one that was not common in the romantic period in which Mary Shelly’s gothic novel Frankenstein was written.
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