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6. 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 Frankenstein, Victor is motivated by guilt and hubris while the Monster is looking to be accepted by society and to make the most out of the life he is given.

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Body Paragraph 1: Monster's Drive to Experience Life

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Body Paragraph 1: Monster's Drive to Experience Life

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-“By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment. I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers. This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it." (Pg. 96-Chapter 12)
- This quote is describing Human Communication from an outsider who knows nothing.
- The Monster is fascinated by it and "[desires] to become acquainted with it"
- There is only curiosity and a desire to learn in the Monster, he has no intention of hurting others.

-"As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and displayed." (page 112- chapter 15)
- After reading Paradise Lost as History and not fiction the Monster sympathizes with a character.
- He reads Victor's notes of his disgust of the creation
- In order to disregard the notes he wants to meet the cottagers.
- This quote just shows the human in the Monster and how he has purely innocent intentions

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Body Paragraph 2: Victor's Drive to Boost His  Ego

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Body Paragraph 2: Victor's Drive to Boost His  Ego

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-"A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs." (Chapter 4)
- Before the monster comes to life, Frankenstein imagines the relationship between him and his creation to be stronger than father and child.
- He sees himself as godlike here, as he believes himself worthy of nothing more than complete gratitude for giving this creature life and refers to himself in the same way that God is referred to in the Bible as a "creator".
- driven by his ego, he does not give any thought to what the creature might look like. He is only concerned with how he will be seen as a god like creator by the creature. This lack of care for the creation  is what ultimately makes the creature an outcast.
- Assuming Victor continues to believe this after the monster is alive, then is very well aware of the societal sin of abandoning his creation.
- So when the monster kills his brother and Victor says nothing about this to anyone, he is protecting his ego because he does not want to admit that he is responsible for this atrocity.
- "As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect upon their cause the monster whom I had created, the miserable daemon whom I had sent abroad into the world." (Chapter 9)
- Frankenstein continues to remove himself as part of the guilty party throughout the story.
- Though not admitting to being responsible, Victor acknowledges the "cause" of his his problems are routed in him creating the monster.
-- Victor also speaks of feeling fear that he will be judged as a madman if he tells people about the creature and so he allows Justine to be hung for the murder of William in order to protect his image and his ego

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Body Paragraph 3: Monster's Drive to be accepted

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Body Paragraph 3: Monster's Drive to be accepted

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- “What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not.” (Chapter 12)
- This quote shows the Monster's perspective as an outsider while he watches the De Lacey family.
- This is his first time watching human interactions up close and many things stand out to him, like their kindness and love.
- This indicates his innocent desire to be a part of a family and  to be accepted.
- " For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?" (Chapter 24)
- This is the Monster questioning why he should be seen as an outcast when the crimes he has committed were brought on by the way that society treated him.
-He claims that he is the victim in the situation even though he has killed multiple people throughout the story because it was mankind's rejection of him that caused him to turn on them .
-He acknowledges that he ruined Victor's life but throughout his life, he claims that even in these dark times, all he ever wanted was to be loved and accepted.
- The quote magnifies how easy it is to see the monster as a violent creature without considering why he is violent and what provoked him.
- He feels that he has been unjustly condemned by society for his crimes when all he ever wanted was acceptance but he received nothing but rejection simply because he did not look like other people.
-This also shows the complexity of the monster's thinking and development as in theory, he does make a point. How could anyone possibly expect him to act any differently if the only thing he wished for, the only thing he desired, to be accepted, was denied to him?
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Body paragraph 4: Victor's Drive is Through Guilt

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Body paragraph 4: Victor's Drive is Through Guilt

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- "Learn from me...by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." (Chapter 4)
- Victor had thrown himself into his studies to avoid grieving his mother's death and his problems back in his village.
- In a moment of clarity he sees that all his efforts are not important because he himself is not happy.
- He did question to continue his work and did so as his earlier success motived him.
- The quote here is when Victor is speaking to Captain Walton. He is wracked by guilt at this point, as he knows that he is the only one responsible for all of the miseries he caused himself and his family.
-- Because of this guilt, he becomes determined to prevent someone else from going down the same path he did. He recognizes the same passion and desire to be great that he once had in the Captain and wants to save him from himself so that he will not have to experience what Frankenstein did
- "I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe." Chapter 9
- After Justine's execution on top of everything else really gets to Victor's mental state.
- Victor expected a clean mind but in a moment of self-reflection he is ambushed with his thoughts, he is filled with remorse and guilt.
- Victor is completely aware of the toll his health is taking and so does his father. As a result his father takes his children away to Believe to help with Victors sorrows. It helps but only temporarily.
- Victor's guilt was so strong and "torturous" as time goes on he feels more and more pressure to relieve himself of the guilt. Each day the extent he would go to only grew farther and farther across the line.
-- this quote should have come first as it is earlier in the novel and helps to show the development of Victor's guilt at the start of the tale.

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The Monster through out the story is just a big toddler full of innocence wanting attention, who like all toddlers, throw temper tantrums. Victor is much more evil in his motivation. He is looking out for only his ego and his mental state. In the end, Victor is to blame for all that has happened in the story, if he had simply put himself aside and taken responsibility for his creation the science experiment would have been a success. The Monster did not wake up blood thirsty, it woke up confused and alone. While some species can be self-sufficient right after birth, humans can not. That's what the Monster was, Human

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The conclusion still does not align 100% and lacks some formality. You did make some excellent points in your padlet however and answered the question well.
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