https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l Please add your thoughts and comments to the wall, so that the whole class can figure out Victor as a scientist, father, son, and fiancé. en-us 2023-01-17 05:09:39 UTC 2026-02-22 23:53:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f468-1f52c.png https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2545271699 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley depicts Victor Frankenstein as an exceptional scientist, a feckless father, an affectionate son, and a devoted fiancé. As a scientist, Victor’s relentless ambition to create life blinds him, leading him to create a monster that ultimately implodes his life by killing his principal source of joy and love–Elizabeth (Shelley 241). As a father, Victor assumes the archetypal role of the neglectful and absent parent by abandoning his creation and failing to take responsibility for the Fiend’s murderous transgressions (Shelley 241). As a son, Victor exhibits a profound devotion to his parents, especially his mother, who eventually succumbs to scarlet fever (Shelley 24). As a fiancé, Victor intends to marry his adoptive sister and long-time lover, Elizabeth, whom he believes immaculately compliments his soul and completes him as a person (Shelley 235). Comprehensively, Victor’s complex, multiple facets manifest in the form of initiative, abandonment, endearment, and romance.]]> 2023-04-05 17:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2545271699 angelvilla2808 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2546676387 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portrays Victor Frankenstein as a mad scientist, a incompetent father, a loving son, and a neglectful finance. As a scientist, Victor dedicates the majority of his time to his work, striving to create life out of his own hands. Victor becomes obsessed with discovering beyond science itself knows, frequently expressing his desire of discovering more about the wonderful world (Shelley 45). As a father, Victor consistently neglects giving his creation any love, affection, or acceptance. In his first sight of his creation, Victor expresses his creation as a wretched and miserable creature (Shelley 52). As a son, Victor cares deeply for his mother and heavily grieves as he learns of his mother’s death (Shelley 39). Victor loves his mother so deeply that he becomes obsessed with creating life in hopes of reviving his mother. As a fiance, Victor intends to marry his lover Elizabeth, but demonstrates various instances of neglect towards her. For example, Victor leaves for Germany and does not show any signs of visiting his lover for 2 years (Shelley 45). He also leaves his beloved Elizabeth alone with the fiend lurking around their location, inherently leaving Elizabeth for dead (Shelley 172-173). Definitively, Victor demonstrates his madness, incompetence, loving character, and neglectful character throughout Frankenstein. 

]]> 2023-04-06 23:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2546676387 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2547699942 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley exemplifies Victor as an obsessive scientist, neglectful father, grieving son, and loving fiancé. As a Scientist, Victor works endlessly to discover the existence of life and creates his own monster. Many may argue that Victor’s ability to animate his monster testifies to his intellect as a scientist because he remained dedicated to his studies and made a remarkable discovery. However, Victor’s obsession with creating life in his own hands drives him seemingly insane because his vaulting ambition leads him to defy the laws of science and the natural world. He ironically becomes displeased with his creation’s appearance by stating, “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart,” yet he physically created his monster’s features  (Shelly 58). Shelly then portrays Victor as a neglectful father after he carelessly abandons his monster. He does not embody the affectionate nature of a parent that accepts their child in all forms. At the first sight of his monster he states, “A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch” (Shelly 52). Victor disowns his monster and fails to fulfill his responsibility as a scientist or seeming parent. In comparison, as a grieving son, Victor mourns the death of his mother because she provided him with the unconditional love that he ironically does not bestow upon his creation. As a son, Victor displays his devotion to his mother as she dies from Scarlet fever by fulfilling his promise to marry Elizabeth. As a fiancé, Shelly portrays Victor as loving and considerate. Though he previously neglected Elizabeth by leaving for Ingolstadt for two years, when he returns, he makes it clear that Elizabeth completes his soul by acting as his other half  (Shelly 235). Victor fulfills his mothers promise and during his marriage he treats Elizabeth with the same unconditional love that she once treated him with. Consequently, Victor portrays obsessive, neglectful, and minor moments of affectionate  characteristics as a scientist, father, son, and fiancé. ]]> 2023-04-08 18:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2547699942 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2547789468 Mary Shelley develops Victor Frankenstein as a character with many sides as he demonstrates characteristics of a devoted scientist, irresponsible father, caring son, and considerate fiancé. Mary Shelley introduces Victor Frankenstein as a morbid character upon his interaction with Robert Walton. Victor Frankenstein then relates his story to Walton, which gives insight into the devotion he dedicated to his study in chemistry. Upon relating his project of recreating life, Frankenstein illustrates the devotion he gives to the project as he explains, “Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries, which I hoped to make”(Shelley 45). In other words, Frankenstein became so devoted to his study to the point that he neglected himself and his relationships in order to build his discoveries. Thus, Frankenstein demonstrates a sort of obsession as his devotion grows to achieve his goals and pave glory for himself. However, his failure to take accountability for his subject would pave the path for his demise. Thus, upon the realization of his discovery, Frankenstein expresses irresponsible qualities as a father. Once Frankenstein has created the fiend he immediately runs from his creation and refuses to encounter it due to its deformities (Shelley 51). Consequently, Frankenstein refuses to accept responsibility for his creation, which neglects the fiend from any connection, as the one person that should have accepted and loved him recoiled at the thought of him. Consequently, the relationship between Victor and the fiend defers greatly from the relationship a creator and the creation should have, as the creator should adore his creation and attempt to store life in it, as God did with Adam. In addition, Victor ironically has a great relationship with his father and worries about him further in the story as the fiend attempts to ruin Victor. Frankenstein expresses great worry for his father even when he faces the accusation of murder as his father has come to visit him in his dungeon (Shelley 160). In addition, upon the death of Elizabeth, Frankenstein flees back to Geneva where his dad dies in his arms (Shelley 175). The audience can then infer that Frankenstein attempted to console his father in his dying breaths. However, Frankenstein may demonstrate caring qualities but it may allude to a sense of guilt as his father wouldn’t suffer these heartaches if Frankenstein hadn’t created the fiend. Thus, Frankenstein also portrays the qualities of a guilty son. Furthermore, Frankenstein portrays the qualities of a considerate fiancé as he flees Geneva to embark on another journey of recreating life in England (Shelley 137). In other words, Frankenstein sets off to create another fiend to appease the previous one in hopes of the assurance that everyone he loved remained safe, which erupted great turmoil in him. However, Victor came to realize that the idea posed an even greater threat and would not finish his project. The fiend then promised that he would appear on his wedding night. Frankenstein then took the threat as the day of his death and accepted the idea in hopes of spending one final happy day with Elizabeth as he knew that she loved him dearly. In the end, Elizabeth would fall victim, and his willingness to sacrifice himself would fall in vain. As a result, Frankenstein exhibits several faces to different people. ]]> 2023-04-09 01:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2547789468 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2548172845 In Frankenstein, Mart Shelley describes Victor Frankenstein as an obsessive scientist, irresponsible father, devoted son, and neglectful fiancé. As a scientist, Victor has become obsessed with creating life. His obsession with science leads him to neglect people in his life that are important. For example, “Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world” ( Shelley 48). Victor has become too obsessed with creating life that he will go to whatever extreme to accomplish his goal. As a father, he became irresponsible with his creation from the moment he saw him. Victor could not handle the creature's appearance and left the room ( Shelly 51). He abandons and leaves the creature to fend for himself when he does not know how to survive. As a son, Victor becomes devoted to his family. When his mother dies, he steps up and takes the responsibility of caring for his siblings. In doing so, Victor demonstrates his devotion and love as a son. As a fiancé, Victor was neglectful. He prioritizes his work over his beloved Elizabeth and pushes her away. He creates a lack of communication between them by withholding information from her. When the creature kills Elizabeth, Victor blames himself for her death since his neglect in their relationship led to her murder. Overall, Victor demonstrates an obsessive, irresponsible, neglectful, and devoted character throughout Frankenstein.

]]> 2023-04-09 23:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2548172845 577369 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2548645372 Because of the protagonist's complexity in Frankenstein, Mary Shelly highlights Victor Frankenstein as a compulsive scientist, an irresolute father, a tenderhearted son, and a reverent fiancé. Throughout Victor Frankenstein's works as a scientist, his devotion as a chemist exhausted himself with great attachment to his project, proclaiming, "Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or next hour might realize" (Shelly 48). In order to fill the flourishing desire of accomplishment, Victor neglects his physical appearance, emotional wellness, and close companions. His arduor advances further than simply the curiosity of knowledge, as observed with his treatment for his creation. As the fiend's appearance progresses with anticipation, Victor's emotional stability disintegrates as he reflection upon his feelings, exasperating, "I found myself fettered again to grief, and indulging in all the misery of reflection" (Shelly 84). With apparent unpredictability of Victor's actions, he flees from the concept of dedicating his existence to enlighten his creation of language and disparities of the world. In regards to Victor's role as a son, he delicate sensitivity opens as he weeps bitterly after reading his father's letter with great disparity (Shelly 65). When analyzing the protagonist's role as a fiancé, Victor Frankenstein openly admits his adoration for his companion with chasmic regret for the concealed truth. He reflects that his love for Elizabeth expands beyond his expectation of simple affection, but he understands that "those horrors of remorse and guilt" will "pursue me until death" (Shelly 167). For this scientist, his contributions for different roles ameliorate Victor Frankenstein as an individual capable of, consciously or unconsciously, feeling different, emotional senses.]]> 2023-04-10 09:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2548645372 631349 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2549195185 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelly portrays Victor Frankenstein with multiple sides. Shelly Portrays him as a fanatic scientist, unreliable father, concerned son, and a lousy fiance. As a scientist he only focused on bringing back to life an inanimate object, "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself or rest and health"(Shelly 51).  Like I said Victor only focused on bringing to life the fiend and nothing else. He is portrayed as an unreliable father because he ran out the moment the fiend came to life(Shelly 51). He was appalled by his creation that he decided to run away instead of confronting the problem and providing  the comfort the fiend needed. Victor can be depicted as a concerned son based on how much he worries about his father. This is more apparent when the fiend killed William, Justine, and Clerval. Victor didn't know who was next so his relief was noticable when his father visited him after Clerval's death(Shelly 160). He found relief in the fact that he along with everyone else were okay.  In final, Victor is depicted as a lousy husband because even though he loves Elizabeth tremendously, she was not one of his first priorities. He only concerned himself with Elizabeth when he found out the fiend was on a mission to seek vengeance. Even then he was more worried about himself because when the fiend stated that he was going to be with Victor on his wedding night Victor immediatley assumed he was the one who was going to die(Shelly 167). The thought that it could be Elizabeth never crossed his mind. ]]> 2023-04-10 19:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2549195185 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2549303745 In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, the main protagonist, Victor Frankenstien, encapsulates a fanatical scientist, a neglectful father, a faithful son, and a devoted fiancé. To start off,  Frankenstein focused after finishing his application in the other natural philosophy, he stumbled upon the human frame in which he delved into that of physiology. In the pursuit of this branch of natural philosophy led him to see every step of a human body decaying that he spent watching for many sleepless nights until he discovered the ability to grant inanimate objects life (Shelly 46-47). This showcases Frankestien’s length to single-handedly pursue to bring life into inanimate objects that he did not sleep for many nights and restarted when he would fail in order to obtain results from observing every detail of life to death and the opposite cycle of the human body. This type of behavior continued as he now assembled the fiend, “My cheeks had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement…My limbs now tremble and my eyes swim with remembrance…I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but this one pursuit(Shelly 48-49). This demonstrates again that Frankenstein in order to make advancements in the scientific field, he would sacrifice his health and his communication with his family since he confined himself to a room to test if his discovery can actually exist. In addition, through his progress to bring the fiend to life, Frankestien has only this thought in his mind, not thinking of consequence and just pursuing this objective since he wants to see his results. Once he sees the results produced from his numerous sleepless nights, he leaves the room with disgust, “demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life…A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch” (Shelly 52). Frankenstein calls his own creation a demon and designates the fiend as a villain that’s more hideous than a mummy after he abandons the fiend in the research room. This illustrates Frankestien as a neglectful father since instead of happiness over the success and birth of a new species, he leaves as if he didn’t create a new form of life that needs guidance and a good environment in order for the fiend to become a decent person. Frankenstein had a good environment, but no guidance in the scientific field since this education came from Cornelius Agrippa and other authors in his father’s study. He had loving parents that showed him a good childhood of exploring and traveling together till they settled down in Geneva, Switzerland, but his mother's last will, “my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union”(Shelly 38).He does abide to this will of his mother in which down the road he almost ends up marrying Elizabeth, but tragedy struck, but it shows his faithfulness to his mother to follow her will. Plus, he actually did love Elizabeth and wanted to marry her although he feels guilty toward obscuring some truth towards her. His affection toward her wanted to protect her by not wanting to hold a wedding since he remembers the threat of the fiend towards him. ]]> 2023-04-10 23:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2549303745 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2551038804 Mary Shelley in her book Frankenstein characterizes Victor Frankenstein to be a son, fiance, and intellectual scientist. Growing up Frankenstein became obsessed with the deep secrets of science. He continues his journey of discovery by attending college miles away from his home in Geneva leaving everything behind. After entangling himself in the nature of science, Frankenstein went as far as creating a hideous monster. His creation opens Frankenstein’s own eyes because he realizes that he has gone too far and quickly abandons the fiend. Shelley portrays him as an irresponsible father to his own creation because of how he ran out on the spot. The hurt from the death of his mother pushed him to exceed the boundaries of how far he could get with nature. Although he remains the smartest of them all, he went too far. Due to his devotion as a scientist, he suppresses all grief into his subconscious which later comes back to the surface in the face of a dream. Truly, his exhaustion to his project of creating the fiend was a distraction to suppress the fond memories that he did not want to remember.

]]> 2023-04-12 03:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2551038804 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2551100378 Mary Shelley presents Victor Frankenstein who is a scientist who is fascinated with electricity. As a scientist he was blinded by dreams of glory and overall ignores the consequences of his actions. Victor deals with a lot of grief and challenges growing up and ends up isolating himself and distancing himself from his loved ones, leading him to making poor decisions. As a son, he was deeply loved by his parents, and they believed that it was their responsibility to raise him, although being so well cared for himself, he fails as a father utterly to take care of the monster once he enters the world.]]> 2023-04-12 04:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2551100378 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2551275576 As the protagonist of the book, Victor plays the role of a scientist, son, and father. As a scientist he creates a fiend and constantly discovered remarkable knowledge. As a son, he deals with the grief of his mothers passing at such a young age. As a father he is shown to be negligent towards his fiend he creates as the mastermind he is. His roles develop throughout the novel and help the audience understand why he acts in certain ways. Victor deals with many hardships and grief throughout his life from his mother dying to being in need of compassion and to not being able to give love. He fails in many ways to hold the role of all of these characters throughout the role due to the hardships he has dealt with in life.]]> 2023-04-12 07:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2551275576 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2552844751 Victor  is the main protagonist in the book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley in the 1800's. Victor Frankenstein is portrayed as a mad scientist, a horrendous father figure, a beloved son, and a neglecting fiance. He is portrayed in many different ways. Victor as a scientist is extremely dedicated to his work. He dedicated his entire life to discovery in science. He strives to create life himself. He obsesses over the idea of discovering beyond science. As a father, Victor is extremely neglectful in the sense of not giving his creation, that he took years forming, love, affection, a family, or compassion. After viewing his creation Victor becomes scared and flees after he tries extending his hand out to him. Victor even goes on to describe him as a miserable creature. He is not there for him what so ever causing the creature to find his place elsewhere. As a son, Victor is cared for deeply by both of his parents and is extremely loved. Both his mother and his father gave him everything he needed to grow up in good hands. When his mother dies, he goes through her death immensely grieving. He holds love for his mother extremely deeply that he becomes infatuated with her even having a dream of her as Emily. As a fiance, Victor is not the best so to say. A main component to this would be because of the fact that Victor leaves to study in Germany for two years and does not contact Elizabeth at all during that period. His creation that he had made in the lab inherently caused her death. ]]> 2023-04-13 09:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2552844751 5774611 https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2557545547 Mary Shelley wrote her novel, Frankenstein, in 1818 and titled it after her protagonist, Victor Frankenstein. Victor played many roles as the protagonist, such as a father, son, fiance, and most importantly a scientist. He was a rotten father figure, as he abandoned his creation because of its grotesque appearance. He states the fiend's features "only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes" (Shelley 51). A common human reaction consists of running away from creatures or scenarios that scare us, so Frankenstein's reaction is normal. However, instead of immediately believing that a horrid complexion defines a monster, he should have at least tried to communicate with the fiend. As a son and a fiance, Victor was terrible. During the 4 years at the University of Ingolstadt, he never wrote to his father or ELizabeth. His obsession over creating life from death only made this worse. Lastly, as a scientist he was amazing. After two years of dedication and week of depriving himself of health he achieved bringing life from the death (Shelley 51). ]]> 2023-04-17 20:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sharonrowland/sjm5hrpuhi7kw81l/wish/2557545547