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Throughout the novel, both the creature and Victor demonstrate a very strong drive to survive despite living through and in circumstances that many would consider insufferable. Identify and analyze what motivates these characters to keep going and fight for their survival.

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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, both Victor and the monster have shared and opposing motives that lead both characters to fight for their survival.

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The monster's only goal is to be accepted by society, pushing him to continue to overcome the many obstacles that come his way.

“What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not.” Chapter 12

Living life as an outcast can be exhausting. The creature is forced to lurk in the shadows, watching and dreaming about what his life could have been if Victor hadn’t abandoned him. He sees the life that others have and the love that is shared, a is reminded that he himself is all alone. He worked to improve his speech and attempted to assimilate with the hope that one day, he would be able to live like the family that he watched. Seeing what he could become drove the creature to want to survive.

“I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.” (chapter 15)

Great pressure is placed on appearance in the society of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as it is still in modern day society.  Society holds much value in things it deems beautiful, and discards everything that does not fit this ideal out with the trash. All the creature desires is to be accepted, loved, and appreciated, but his appearance causes him to be stared at with disgust. He desires only to fit into the world, and his fear of failing to do so drives him forward.

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A driving motive in Victor's survival is guilt over his creation and the destruction the ensued as a result of his actions.

“The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.”- (Chapter 8)

Despite the gracious appeal Elizabeth, Victors adopted sister, made on behalf of Justine, it was not enough and Justine is to be executed. Victor however focuses on himself in this moment, consumed with the guilt that he is the only one that truly knows what happened to his brother.

“I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.” (Chapter 9)

Victor knew that Justine was not responsible for the death of his little brother, and that it was in fact his own creation that had killed him. Despite this knowledge, Victor lets Justine die. He is as guilty in her death as the monster was in the death of his brother. Victor was also driven by guilt over the fact that he could not save his mother from death or spare his family from suffering; He created the monster because of that guilt.

"The murderous mark of the fiend’s grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips."

When Victor makes the decision to kill the monster, he does so out of the guilt he is feeling as a result of the loss of his loved ones.  He created the monster and therefore was responsible for the death of them. The blood of his brother, Justine, and Elizabeth lay on his hands.  Victor feels a deep sense of guilt for allowing the monster to commit such atrocities against his loved ones.

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The monster lives in a perpetual state of loneliness. He is unlike any other and has been forcibly isolated for his entire existence.

“I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathising with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.” (Chapter 15)

Victor did not stop to think what would happen if his experiment would work, and his creature came to life. Victor condemns his creature to a life of isolation and loneliness. His appearance alienates the monster and prevents him from forming any type of relationship. He did not chose his to separate himself from society, but others who forced him into the shadows because of his appearance.

“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” (chap 17)

The romantic ideology argues that everyone is born good, and circumstance turns people evil. The “monster” has been subject to isolation and abandonment from his creator, and has been rejected from all of society, it is no wonder he commits malicious acts. His creator wanted him dead after forcing him to a life of isolation and loneliness. He begins to respond to society in the same way society has acted unto him: violence. The anger he feels towards all of society but especially towards Frankenstein as a result of his isolation leads him to act in an evil and malicious manner.

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Both Victor and his monster are filled with hate towards the world and towards each other. Victor created the Monster and then abandoned him, making him an outcast unacceptable to society. Victor condemned the creature to a life of isolation and for that, the Creature hates him. On the other hand, the creature killed Victors loved ones as a way to get back at Victor, and now the blood of three people is on Victors hands. Their hate for each other pushes them both to survive.

“I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the exquisite beauty of the Arabian, these thoughts vanished and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human” (Chapter 16)

The monster wants revenge on Victor for abandoning him, and subjecting him to the cruelness of society. Everywhere he goes to attempt finding acceptance, he is met with cruelty and hatred. If Victor had been there for him, he would not have been subjected to all that pain.

“I began to reflect on their cause—the monster whom I had created, the miserable dæmon whom I had sent abroad into the world for my destruction. I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head.” (Chapter 23)

Victor is being forced to look at his impact on the Monster, and how his actions led to the death that surrounds him. His rage In the wake of Elizabeth's death consumes him, and his need to exact revenge on his creation grows. As a result of his actions, the most important people in his life are dead. Rather than take responsibility for his part in what happened to his family, Victor chooses to exact revenge on the creature. With that rage and anger, Victor too becomes a monster.

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Victor avoided processing and dealing with the grief of losing his mother by throwing himself into an experiment that he never thought could work. For several years, Victor had sleepless nights and dedicated his entire being to his experiment not once thinking about what would happen if it worked. When it did, Victor was forced to confront what he had created and rather than nurture and care for his creation, he ran and abandoned him. The abandonment leaves the creature to struggle with isolation and feelings of loneliness. An outcast from society abandoned by his creator leaves the creature vengeful, and he takes it out by killing both Victor’s brother and his sister. Victor is burdened with guilt, having the death of three people in his hands. His hatred towards the creature leaves him too feeling vengeful. Both Victor and the creature struggled throughout the text with deep seated feelings of revenge, while only the creature truly struggled with isolation and alienation, and Victor struggled deeply with feelings of guilt. -- needed one more sentence here I think

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Well done here Jennie. The analysis that you provided was spot on and you proved the thesis with strong evidence from the text . Great Job
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