Assignment 2 - TEAR

Mary Shelley's cynical fictional novel Frankenstein  uses the demise of Frankenstein's brother, William, to create a realization about the mistake on creating and unleashing a monster into the world. Since the day that Victor first created the monster he immediately felt regret about what he had just done. It wasn't until the monster had actually caused deaths in Victor's own family that he wanted to end it all after he was the one to start the catastrophe in the first place.

The moment the monster opened his eyes, Frankenstein knew he had made a terrible mistake by creating him. It was not until William was murdered that guilt started to take over Victor, "...words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured." (Shelley 70). When he grasped that that reason his younger brother was murdered as a result of the soul-less creature that Victor himself had released, the guilt literally made him ill. When he brought the demon to life he never thought of what the consequences would be, but when it caused not just one but a couple of deaths among his own family the remorse he felt began to build up inside him, "But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom..."(Shelley 72). After someone else in the family took the blame for a murder that Frankenstein's monster was at fault for, he couldn't take it anymore. At that moment it had hit him that what he had released into the world would only cause more harm and danger to everyone which is why he took the blame for all deaths upon himself. What Victor had originally wanted to be a fantastic discovery of the unknown turned out to be a disaster and became a failure, causing him to to even want to commit suicide, "...I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the water might close over me and my calamities forever."(Shelley 75). Feeling overwhelmed with everything that was going on around him, Frankenstein didn't want to drown in his guilt anymore. The creation that was caused by curiosity, hunger for knowledge, and desire to do something that no one else before him ever did turned to regret, pain, and alienation all caused by the demon.

As the novel progressed the reader was able to realize reasons as to why one should never play with the unknown and the mysteries that hide in the world. By Shelley making the consequences that Frankenstein experienced clear to the reader, the message can be comprehended that one cannot cheat in life by playing God and bringing the dead to life without suffering. Unlike Frankenstein who didn't let life take it's proper course by ending in death and leaving it be, people should know that everyone dies and the only thing that one can do after that is to move on.